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- Master of Reality
- - 273,766 plays
  - 213 favs
  - 17 shares
Black Sabbath
Released 1971

Sweet Leaf
05:05
76,950 plays

Into the Void
06:11
44,809 plays

Children of the Grave
05:17
37,609 plays

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songs

- 1
- Sweet Leaf
- 05:05
- 76,950 plays

- 2
- After Forever
- 05:26
- 26,717 plays

- 3
- Embryo [Instrumental]
- 00:28
- 16,616 plays

- 4
- Children of the Grave
- 05:17
- 37,609 plays

- 5
- Orchid [Instrumental]
- 01:31
- 20,023 plays

- 6
- Lord of This World
- 05:26
- 28,060 plays

- 7
- Solitude
- 05:02
- 22,982 plays

- 8
- Into the Void
- 06:11
- 44,809 plays

album review

With Paranoid, Black Sabbath perfected the formula for their lumbering heavy metal. On its follow-up, Master of Reality, the group merely repeated the formula, setting the stage for a career of recycling the same sounds and riffs. But on Master of Reality Sabbath still were fresh and had a seemingly endless supply of crushingly heavy riffs to bludgeon their audiences into sweet, willing oblivion. If the album is a showcase for anyone, it is Tony Iommi, who keeps the album afloat with a series of slow, loud riffs, the best of which -- "Sweet Leaf" and "Children of the Grave" among them -- rank among his finest playing. Taken in tandem with the more consistent Paranoid, Master of Reality forms the core of Sabbath's canon. There are a few stray necessary tracks scattered throughout the group's other early-'70s albums, but Master of Reality is the last time they delivered a consistent album and its influence can be heard throughout the generations of heavy metal bands that followed. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide