{"product_id":"black-sabbath-master-of-reality-vmp-2024-reissue","title":"Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality (VMP 2024 Reissue)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe shortest album of Black Sabbath's glory years, \u003cem\u003eMaster of Reality\u003c\/em\u003e is also their most sonically influential work. Here \u003c\/span\u003eTony Iommi\u003cspan\u003e began to experiment with tuning his guitar down three half-steps to C#, producing a sound that was darker, deeper, and sludgier than anything they'd yet committed to record. (This trick was still being copied 25 years later by every metal band looking to push the limits of heaviness, from trendy nu-metallers to Swedish deathsters.) Much more than that, \u003cem\u003eMaster of Reality \u003c\/em\u003eessentially created multiple metal subgenres all by itself, laying the sonic foundations for doom, stoner and sludge metal, all in the space of just over half an hour. Classic opener \"Sweet Leaf\" certainly ranks as a defining stoner metal song, making its drug references far more overt (and adoring) than the preceding album's \"Fairies Wear Boots.\" The album's other signature song, \"Children of the Grave,\" is driven by a galloping rhythm that would later pop up on a slew of \u003c\/span\u003eIron Maiden\u003cspan\u003e tunes, among many others. Aside from \"Sweet Leaf,\" much of\u003cem\u003e Master of Reality\u003c\/em\u003e finds the band displaying a stronger moral sense, in part an attempt to counteract the growing perception that they were Satanists. \"Children of the Grave\" posits a stark choice between love and nuclear annihilation, while \"After Forever\" philosophizes about death and the afterlife in an openly religious (but, of course, superficially morbid) fashion that offered a blueprint for the career of Christian doom band \u003c\/span\u003eTrouble\u003cspan\u003e. And although the alternately sinister and jaunty \"Lord of This World\" is sung from Satan's point of view, he clearly doesn't think much of his own followers (and neither, by extension, does the band). It's all handled much like a horror movie with a clear moral message, for example \u003cem\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/em\u003e. Past those four tracks, listeners get sharply contrasting tempos in the rumbling sci-fi tale \"Into the Void,\" which shortens the distances between the multiple sections of the band's previous epics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd there's the core of the album -- all that's left is a couple of brief instrumental interludes, plus the quiet, brooding loneliness of \"Solitude,\" a mostly textural piece that frames \u003c\/span\u003eOsbourne\u003cspan\u003e's phased vocals with acoustic guitars and flutes. But, if a core of five songs seems slight for a classic album, it's also important to note that those five songs represent a nearly bottomless bag of tricks, many of which are still being imitated and explored decades later. If \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eParanoid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has more widely known songs, the suffocating and oppressive \u003cem\u003eMaster of Reality\u003c\/em\u003e was the Sabbath record that die-hard metalheads took most closely to heart. — via AllMusic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/24fNwoIq4NLDf4ARJYAFN9?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Warner Records, Rhino Records\u003cbr\u003eSeries: VMP Rock – RR007\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Reissue, Purple Orchid Splatter, 180g\u003cbr\u003eReissued: 2024 \/ Original Release: 1971\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Rock\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: School Of Rock\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warner Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45223205372062,"sku":"081227818999","price":48.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/cover_566e200c-fe5c-4dd7-8588-7e63fa8293a3.jpg?v=1741505222","url":"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/products\/black-sabbath-master-of-reality-vmp-2024-reissue","provider":"The Analog Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}