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Black Sabbath  Main Performer

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1 Sweet Leaf Osbourne/Iommi/Ward 5:05
2 After Forever Iommi/Butler/Osbour 5:26
3 Embryo [Instrumental] Iommi :28
4 Children of the Grave Butler/Ward/Osbourn 5:17
5 Orchid [Instrumental] Iommi 1:31
6 Lord of This World Osbourne/Butler/Iom 5:26
7 Solitude Iommi/Osbourne/Ward 5:02
8 Into the Void Butler/Iommi/Ward/O 6:11
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Master of Reality

Audio Compact Disc

Label: Warner Bros.

Style: Hard Rock

Master of Reality

UPC: 075992725323

Release Date: 10/25/1990

Original Release Date: 10/25/1990

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [Sweet Leaf, After Forever, Embryo [Instrumental], Children of the Grave, Orchid [Instrumental], Lord of This World, Solitude, Into the Void]
Contributors:

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

With Paranoid, Black Sabbath perfected the formula for their lumbering heavy metal. On its follow-up, Master of Reality, the group merely repeated the formula, setting the stage for a career of recycling the same sounds and riffs. But on Master of Reality Sabbath still were fresh and had a seemingly endless supply of crushingly heavy riffs to bludgeon their audiences into sweet, willing oblivion. If the album is a showcase for anyone, it is Tony Iommi, who keeps the album afloat with a series of slow, loud riffs, the best of which -- "Sweet Leaf" and "Children of the Grave" among them -- rank among his finest playing. Taken in tandem with the more consistent Paranoid, Master of Reality forms the core of Sabbath's canon. There are a few stray necessary tracks scattered throughout the group's other early-'70s albums, but Master of Reality is the last time they delivered a consistent album and its influence can be heard throughout the generations of heavy metal bands that followed. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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