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- CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE
WEEK
- Black Sabbath 1970 (UK)
- This
record marks the debut not just of Birmingham UK's most notorious band,
but of "Heavy Metal" itself. Released on Friday the 13th in February 1970, this
marriage of gothic atmosphere, doomy subject matter and extreme sonic
heaviness was really only ever topped by Black Sabbath's second album
"Paranoid" later the same year. I remember as a kid all those
"Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock"-type books always gave Black
Sabbath's albums (and also KISS and other heavy bands) ratings of one
star or less! Nowadays the critics fall over themselves fawning about
the genius of these guys. Clearly, they were ahead of their time.
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