Fantastic Always a pleasure to deal with Mighty Ape (Big ups to you all)
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Fantastic Always a pleasure to deal with Mighty Ape (Big ups to you all)
Upon its release in ‘73, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath began achieving a feat that
had, for the previous four albums and three years, eluded the Birmingham metal
maestros. It started getting good reviews. Until then, the music critics had not
warmed to the bare, brutal honesty of Black Sabbath's music, not least Rolling
Stone critic Lester Bangs, who had described the band's debut 'Black Sabbath’
as “just like Cream. But worse!” Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was released on
1 December 1973 and was immediately heralded by the previously reluctant
Rolling Stone magazine as “an extraordinarily gripping affair” and
“nothing less than a complete success”. The album reached number 4 in the
UK charts and 11 in the US charts, where it would go on to achieve platinum
sales success.
From the grinding riff of the opening title track, the album showed that despite
the band pushing back musical boundaries, they'd lost none of their aggression.
‘A National Acrobat’ and ‘Sabbra Cadabra’ (the latter, which featured
Yes keyboard player Rick Wakeman, was famously covered by Metallica a quarter of
a century later) were equally heavy, imposing tracks, whilst ‘Killing yourself
to live’ and the sci-fi themed ‘Spiral Architect’ rate as some of the
band's best tracks. and even if the excellent title track was curiously rarely
featured in the band's live set at the time, the gentle acoustic guitar work of
‘Fluff’ can still be heard as fans file out of Black Sabbath gigs the world
over. Little wonder some claim Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the greatest album that
the ‘classic’ line-up recorded. this is an album that oozes class from start
to finish.
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