Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality is, for all intents and purposes, an important early milestone for heavy metal. While their first, self-titled, album introduced the band to the world, and their sophomore effort, Paranoid, broke ground in the genre, it was Sabbath’s third album that really defined what heavy metal was capable of being. And I’m not the only one who feels that way…

“Master Of Reality is where we found ourselves,” Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward previously told music journalist and Hammer legend Malcolm Dome, via Louder. “I know people feel that Sabbath invented heavy metal with our debut album – and that is true to some extent. But I believe that it’s with Master Of Reality that we proved the potential and power of the music.”

So with all this in mind, let’s take a little

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