Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (1972)

Year: September 1972 (CD Dec 1986)
Label: Castle Communications PLC (France), NELCD 6005
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 47:23
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 307 Mb

Charts: UK #8, AUS #1, CAN #5, FIN #2, GER #8, NOR #7, SWE #7, SWI #17, US #13. UK: Gold; CAN & US: Platinum.
"The band started to become very fatigued and very tired. We'd been on the road non-stop, year in and year out, constantly touring and recording. I think Master of Reality was kind of like the end of an era, the first three albums, and we decided to take our time with the next album."
--- Bill Ward
Indeed, producing a full three albums in merely two years while intensively touring for them must have undoubtedly put strain on Black Sabbath. After a short break, the question was whether they would be able to equal their two classics Paranoid and Master of Reality. Whilst in the recording process, however, a more important issue had emerged. The entire band had gotten so used to drugs, most notably cocaine, that they became increasingly distant to the music, as well as in their personal relationships. After a tiny break, there was more pressure on the quartet than ever. Nevertheless, their fourth album, the not-all-too-inventively-titled Volume 4 (a decision record label Vertigo made because original title Snowblind was not to their liking) became yet another success, allowing the band to continue their legacy.
"Yeah, the cocaine had set in. We went out to L.A. and got into a totally different lifestyle. Half the budget went on the coke and the other half went to seeing how long we could stay in the studio...We rented a house in Bel-Air and the debauchery up there was just unbelievable."
--- Geezer Butler
"Yes, Vol. 4 is a great album but listening to it now, I can see it as a turning point for me, where the alcohol and drugs stopped being fun."
--- Bill Ward
(sputnikmusic.com/review/35048/Black-Sabbath-Vol.-4/)

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. Wheels Of Confusion (08:00)
02. Tomorrow's Dream (03:07)
03. Changes (04:43)
04. Fx (01:40)
05. Supernaut (04:43)
06. Snowblind (05:28)
07. Cornucopia (03:51)
08. Laguna Sunrise (02:52)
09. St. Vitus Dance (02:27)
10. Under The Sun (05:51)
11. Children Of The Grave (Live) (04:35)

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