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Master of Reality is the third studio album by British pioneers Black Sabbath. It’s probably the “hardest” so far. There are still blues scales and stuff as it is most Hardrock acts even today. But I feel like there’s also a step toward what would become Heavy Metal on this album. Of course, we all perceive music differently depending on our experiences. Nowadays, Master of Reality isn’t particularly “hard”. But when it was released in...
Paranoid is Black Sabbath’s second album. It isn’t hard to hear why these pioneer rockers were such an influence on Hardrock and Heavy Metal. Although the music is obviously based on blues scales they manage to make heavy hifs and nice singable melodies out of it. With ease, it seems. During this time it sound a little psycadelic, meaning that it sounds a bit experimental still. They still have not decided what they are or...
Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath is their eponymous first album (duh!). I have seen plenty of lists that list the first 4 or five albums by the band as absolutely perfect. I may not go so far, but their impact on the genre cannot be overstated. There is a lot of Blues approach to these early albums though. Even if they’re considered to be breakthrough albums for the Heavy Metal genre historically, they’re not that...
