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This has long been my most listened-to Bathory album, as it has hints of the primitive wailing of the band's early stuff, but weaves that into a much more musically ambitious whole. I'm not sure if \"viking metal\" is a real genre or not, but if it is this album is it's birthplace, combining the conventions of heavy metal with atmospheric musical modes that could soundtrack a norse battle epic. Of course if you're curious about Bathory you should probably start with the debut, but for me this is a close second in terms of power and (realized) ambition. 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Black Mark Records\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Mark Records","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":372116339,"sku":"SKU003487","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/7539\/products\/IMG_2006_copy.jpg?v=1502832373"},{"product_id":"bathory-s-t-12","title":"Bathory: S\/T 12\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNOTE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Our current stock copies are the standard jacket version.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOfficial repress of the legendary 1984 album that, more than any other, gave birth to black metal. Primitive, raw, and in your face, with overtly satanic lyrics and an all-encompassing grim vibe. 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The band continues further down the proto-prog metal road of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and this time around, the synthesizers feel more organically integrated into the arrangements. What's more, the song structures generally feel less conventional and more challenging. There's one significant exception in the blatant pop tune \"Am I Going Insane (Radio),\" which rivals \"Changes\" as the most fan-loathed song of the glory years, thanks to its synth-driven arrangement (there isn't even a guitar riff!) and oft-repeated one-line chorus. But other than that song and the terrific album opener, \"Hole in the Sky,\" the band largely eschews the standard verse-chorus format, sticking to one or two melody lines per riffed section and changing up the feel before things get too repetitive. The prevalence of this writing approach means that Sabotage rivals Vol. 4 as the least accessible record of Sabbath's glory years. However, given time, the compositional logic reveals itself, and most of the record will burn itself into the listener's brain just fine. The faster than usual \"Symptom of the Universe\" is a stone-cold classic, its sinister main riff sounding like the first seed from which the New Wave of British Heavy Metal would sprout (not to mention an obvious blueprint for Diamond Head's \"Am I Evil?\"). Like several songs on the record, \"Symptom\" features unexpected acoustic breaks and softer dynamics, yet never loses its drive or focus, and always feels like Sabbath. Less immediate but still rewarding are \"Thrill of It All,\" with its triumphant final section, and the murky, sullen \"Megalomania,\" which never feels as long as its nearly nine and a half minutes. But more than the compositions, the real revelation on Sabotage is Ozzy Osbourne, who turns in his finest vocal performance as a member of Black Sabbath. Really for the first time, this is the Ozzy we all know, displaying enough range, power, and confidence to foreshadow his hugely successful solo career. He saves the best for last with album closer \"The Writ,\" one of the few Sabbath songs where his vocal lines are more memorable than Tony Iommi's guitar parts; running through several moods over the course of the song's eight minutes, it's one of the best performances of his career, bar none. Unfortunately, after Sabotage, the wheels of confusion came off entirely. 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Originally released in 1990, it marked a new turn in the Death discography, one which ushered in cleaner production, a new level of boundary pushing musicianship and songwriting skills that were previously unimaginable from a metal band. 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The effectively concise \"Tomorrow's Dream\" has a chorus that could almost be called radio-ready, were it not for the fact that it only appears once in the entire song. \"St. Vitus Dance\" is surprisingly upbeat, yet the distant-sounding vocals don't really register. The notorious piano-and-Mellotron ballad \"Changes\" ultimately fails not because of its change-of-pace mood, but more for a raft of the most horrendously clich‚d rhymes this side of \"moon-June.\" Even the crushing \"Supernaut\" -- perhaps the heaviest single track in the Sabbath catalog -- sticks a funky, almost danceable acoustic breakdown smack in the middle. Besides \"Supernaut,\" the core of Vol. 4 lies in the midtempo cocaine ode \"Snowblind,\" which was originally slated to be the album's title track until the record company got cold feet, and the multi-sectioned prog-leaning opener, \"Wheels of Confusion.\" The latter is one of Iommi's most complex and impressive compositions, varying not only riffs but textures throughout its eight minutes. Many doom and stoner metal aficionados prize the second side of the album, where Osbourne's vocals gradually fade further and further away into the murk, and Iommi's guitar assumes center stage. The underrated \"Cornucopia\" strikes a better balance of those elements, but by the time \"Under the Sun\" closes the album, the lyrics are mostly lost under a mountain of memorable, contrasting riffery. Add all of this up, and Vol. 4 is a less cohesive effort than its two immediate predecessors, but is all the more fascinating for it. 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Though no one could have predicted it at the time, Sabbath was laying the groundwork for a genre that would continue to grow in popularity through the '70s, '80s, '90s, and beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warner Bros Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":4215882689,"sku":"150630051","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/7539\/products\/blacksabbath.jpg?v=1624739534"},{"product_id":"black-sabbath-paranoid-12","title":"Black Sabbath: Paranoid 12\"","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,\u0026quot;PARANOID proved to be Black Sabbath's most focused, consistent, and successful record. 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