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Album cover: Black Sabbath — Vol. 4 (1972 original release (Vertigo UK / Warner Bros. US))

Black Sabbath

Vol. 4

Vol. 4: the 1972 pan that got heavy metal wrong

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Album cover: Black Sabbath — Paranoid (Original 1970 UK Vertigo Records release)

Black Sabbath

Paranoid

Paranoid: the 1971 Rolling Stone pan that got heavy metal wrong

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Album cover: Black Sabbath — Master of Reality (Original 1971 UK Vertigo Records release (embossed envelope sleeve))

Black Sabbath

Master of Reality

The sludge-metal cornerstone the critic called monotonous

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Album cover: Black Sabbath — Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath

The review that missed the birth of metal

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