Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the fifth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in December 1973. It was produced by the band and recorded at Morgan Studios in London in September 1973.-"Wikipedia"
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath's nearly flawless execution, even a more adventurous experiment like the string-laden "Spiral Architect," with its tasteful background orchestration, managed to sound surprisingly natural, and in the dreamy instrumental "Fluff," Tony Iommi scored his first truly memorable solo piece.
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Rolling Stone
“The blues oughtta make you wanna cry one minute, and make you wanna get up and dance the next.” That’s what Black Sabbath have always done for this believer, and in doing it again, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath is nothing less than a complete success. Call it the blues of the decade, or heavy-metal — whatever the name for their music, Black Sabbath are a true Seventies band.
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UCR
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath wasn’t just another Black Sabbath album, but a clear dividing line in their career; a significant creative leap inaugurating phase two of the band’s career and promising much of albums still to come.
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Loudwire
Although much of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is brooding, the band also experimented with styles outside of doom metal. “Sabbra Cadabra” is rooted in the heavy blues of bands like Cream and Led Zeppelin and “Looking for Today,” which features melodic arpeggios and an acoustic interlude enhanced by a flute passage, and is more traditional hard rock.
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Sputnik Music
Following a stretch of four masterful albums in three years, the effects of writer's block did not stop this masterpiece from coming into existence. The absolute best in the long career of Black Sabbath.
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BBC
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is not as ultimately arresting as the likes of Paranoid but its a great album in its own right, highlighting a creatively more mature band, and deserves to be given a jolly good thrashing on any self respecting stereo system.
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Head Heritage
SBS has an elusive quality that grows on you, and I find myself listening to it more than any other Sabbath album. Ozzy himself has often said that this is his favorite Sabbath album, as he was so “focused” during its recording.
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Indy Metal Vault
Think of the violent themes that many a thrash metal and death metal band would use or the aggressive vocal styles that could be traced back to this. If the influence on heavy metal that came after this record and the absolute love that it gets from veteran and young metalheads alike isn’t enough to convince you that it held up very well, I urge you to go listen to it yourself.
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Sea of Tranquility
Not wanting to be content with just cranking out lumbering heavy rock riffs, Black Sabbath created an album in Sabbath Bloody Sabbath that impressed not only their fans, but the critics as well with its blend of heavy doom and eerie progressive rock. In the annals of their history, it's an album that has stood the test of time as one of their most impressive.
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Jamming Wave
This is one of my favorite Sabbath’s album. One particular thing of hearing a Sabbath album is that the music is so catchy that it will stay in your head days after been played. It is simple, but it just works and works very well.
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