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| 1 | Black Sabbath | Butler/Iommi/Ward/O | 6:20 |
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| 2 | The Wizard | Osborne/Iommi/Ward/ | 4:23 |
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| 3 | Behind the Wall of Sleep | Butler/Iommi/Ward/O | 3:37 |
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| 4 | N.I.B. | Osborne/Butler/Iomm | 6:07 |
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| 5 | Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games with Me) | Weigand/Wagner | 3:24 |
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| 6 | Sleeping Village | Osborne/Butler/Ward | 3:46 |
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| 7 | Warning | Ward/Dunbar/Morehea | 10:28 |
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| 8 | Wicked World [Single B-Side] | Osborne/Ward/Butler | 4:44 |
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| 9 | Black Sabbath [Studio Outtake][#] | Iommi/Butler/Ward/O | 6:21 |
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| 10 | Black Sabbath [#][Instrumental] | Butler/Ward/Osborne | 6:12 |
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| 11 | The Wizard [Studio Outtake][#] | Osborne/Butler/Iomm | 4:46 |
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| 12 | Behind the Wall of Sleep [Studio Outtake][#] | Butler/Osborne/Iomm | 3:40 |
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| 13 | N.I.B. [#][Instrumental] | Ward/Iommi/Butler/O | 6:08 |
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| 14 | Evil Woman [Alternate Take][#] | Weigand/Wagner | 3:47 |
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| 15 | Sleeping Village (Intro) [#] | Ward/Iommi/Butler/O | 3:45 |
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| 16 | Warning (Pt. 1) [#] | Iommi/Dmochowski/Os | 6:57 |
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Black Sabbath
Long Play Record [Deluxe Edition]
Label: Sanctuary
Style: Hard Rock
Black Sabbath
UPC: 602527010878
Release Date: 01/01/1899
Original Release Date: 01/01/1899
- Black Sabbath
Main Performer
Steve Huey
Black Sabbath's debut album is given over to lengthy songs and suite-like pieces where individual songs blur together and riffs pound away one after another, frequently under extended jams. There isn't much variety in tempo, mood, or the band's simple, blues-derived musical vocabulary, but that's not the point; Sabbath's slowed-down, murky guitar rock bludgeons the listener in an almost hallucinatory fashion, reveling in its own dazed, druggy state of consciousness. Songs like the apocalyptic title track, "N.I.B.," and "The Wizard" make their obsessions with evil and black magic seem like more than just stereotypical heavy metal posturing because of the dim, suffocating musical atmosphere the band frames them in. This blueprint would be refined and occasionally elaborated upon over the band's next few albums, but there are plenty of metal classics already here. [Universal/Sanctuary's 2009 reissue of the album included a digitally remastered version of the original recordings, as well as a second disc stocked with nine previously unreleased tracks, nearly all of which are just alternate takes]. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi
