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Title: A landmark of Heavy Metal
Review: This is a great album, unquestionably. I say album out of habit, as I'm 36 years old, so I've been around awhile and listened to many bands and owned many albums and CD's. This still is as potent an album today as it was thirty years ago. I first bought a tape of this back in 1979 or 1980 and was blown away by it. Since then, I've upgraded to CD and still marvel at the music.If you listen to this album, you can really hear the amazing influence Sabbath has on so much of the metal and alternative music to follow. The intersting thing to me about this album is that while it's undeniably heavy, it has a jazz-like quality to many of the instrumental passages. There are moments of real musicality here, not just mindless angry headbanging. Of course there's plenty of amplified mayhem and doom to satisfy even the angriest metalhead, but it's truly, dare I say, sophisticated?I've been listening to this album for over twenty years, and I still love it.
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