Label: Castle Communications PLC (France), NELCD 6004
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 40:01
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 240 Mb
Charts: UK #5, AUS #8, CAN #6, FIN #3, GER #5, NL #10, NOR #12, SWE #8, US #8. UK: Gold; CAN: Platinum; US: 2x Platinum.
During
the album's recording sessions, Osbourne brought Iommi a large joint
which caused the guitarist to cough uncontrollably. Iommi was recording
acoustic guitar parts at the time, and his coughing fit was captured on
tape. A fragment of Iommi's coughing was later added by producer Bain as
the intro to "Sweet Leaf," a song which was admittedly an ode to
marijuana use. Iommi recalls "We all played 'Sweet Leaf' while stoned."
In an interview with Guitar World in 2001 Butler recalled: "I do
remember writing "Sweet Leaf" in the studio. I'd just come back from
Dublin, and they'd had these cigarettes called Sweet Afton, which you
could only get in Ireland. We were going: "What could we write about?" I
took out this cigarette packet, and as you opened it, it's got on the
lid: "it's the sweetest leaf that gives you the taste" I was like: "Ah,
Sweet Leaf!" Writing in Mojo in 2013, Phil Alexander observed: "To most
it is the quintessential stoner anthem, a point borne out by Sabbath's
own Olympian consumption of hashish during their early days." In the
Black Sabbath concert film The Last Supper, Ward ruminates: "Did it
enhance the music? Well, you know, we wrote 'Sweet Leaf': 'When I first
met you / didn't realize', that's about meeting marijuana, having a
relationship with marijuana ... That was part of our lifestyle at that
time."
Butler, the band's primary lyricist, had a Catholic
upbringing, and the song "After Forever" focuses entirely on Christian
themes. At the time, Black Sabbath were suspected by some observers of
being Satanists due to their dark sound, image, and lyrics. "After
Forever" was released as a single along with "Fairies Wear Boots" in
1971.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Reality)
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog.
D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The
second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the
format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
01. Sweet Leaf (05:05)
02. After Forever (05:27)
03. Embryo (05:00)
04. Children Of The Grave (00:45)
05. Orchid (01:30)
06. Lord Of This World (05:26)
07. Solitude (05:02)
08. Into The Void (06:13)
09. Killing Yourself To Live (Live) (05:30)
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