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Vol. 4 has all the messiness of a heavy metal Exile on Main St., and if it lacks that album's overall diversity, it does find Sabbath at their most musically varied, pushing to experiment amidst the drug-addled murk. As a result, there are some puzzling choices made here (not least of which is the inclusion of \"FX\"), and the album often contradicts itself. Ozzy Osbourne's wail is becoming more powerful here, taking greater independence from Tony Iommi's guitar riffs, yet his vocals are processed into a nearly textural element on much of side two. Parts of Vol. 4 are as ultra-heavy as Master of Reality, yet the band also takes its most blatant shots at accessibility to date -- and then undercuts that very intent. 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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It was produced and engineered by Sylvia Massy and former Minor Threat bassist Steve Hansgen. Released in 1992, it was the result of some two years of the band playing together after their formation in 1990. \\\u0026quot;Opiate\\\u0026quot; preceded Tool's first full-length album, Undertow, by a year. It is named after a quote by Karl Marx: \\\u0026quot;Religion [...] is the opium of the masses\\\u0026quot;.[5] The EP was certified platinum by the RIAA on April 1, 2005. As of July 7, 2010, Opiate has sold 1,155,000 Copies in the US.\u0026quot;]\" data-sheets-userformat=\"[null,null,513,[null,0],null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,0]\"\u003eOpiate is an EP by American rock band Tool. It was produced and engineered by Sylvia Massy and former Minor Threat bassist Steve Hansgen. Released in 1992, it was the result of some two years of the band playing together after their formation in 1990. \"Opiate\" preceded Tool's first full-length album, Undertow, by a year. 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Today, the album\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis viewed unanimously as one of the all-time most important cornerstones of death metal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relapse Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39612603203769,"sku":"160520004","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/7539\/files\/a2911203860_16.jpg?v=1748632226"},{"product_id":"accused-more-fun-than-an-open-casket-funeral-12-newaccused-more-fun-than-an-open-casket-funeral-12","title":"Accused: More Fun than an Open Casket Funeral 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='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"The Accused created a form of music they call \\\"splatter-rock\\\" which is screaming fast hardcore, metal and punk all wrapped into one, with lyrics that range from politics to cartoonish death and destruction. 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Pressed from the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e original master tapes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this vinyl release has been specifically recreated using \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFDR - Full Dynamic Range - mastering \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eallowing the music's nuances to shine through and give this classic album a more ferocious and dynamic sound, enabling the listener to immerse in the full audio heaviness like never before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOur take\u003c\/b\u003e: Before I say anything else, I should note that this LP sounds \u003ci\u003eincredible\u003c\/i\u003e. This is part of Earache's \"Full Dynamic Range Vinyl\" series and while that might imply that it skimps on volume, that couldn't be further from the case... this is extreme music (maybe even the beginning of extreme music as we know it?), and this pressing is still appropriately, ear-splittingly loud. However, it also has depth and warmth that you don't hear nearly as much nowadays... it honestly sounds like a pressing from the 80s in the best way possible (it was mastered directly from the original tapes), and the artwork is reproduced much more faithfully than many recent metal reissues (I'm looking at you, Death and Sodom reissue campaigns!). Now that that's out of the way, I can get to my little mini-essay on \"what Napalm Death means to me.\" I can still remember the first time I heard this band sometime in the early to mid 90s when I was still a teenager and my ears really weren't prepared for it. At the time it sounded hilariously awful, and it would take me many, many years to want to revisit Napalm Death, a process lengthened by having to sit through live sets by innumerable terrible, unimaginative grindcore and power violence bands in my life. However, a handful of years ago something clicked and I realized that I love Napalm Death. What once sounded more like a comedy routine than \"serious music\" suddenly sounded organic, uncontrived, and--even though it was by then far removed from its original context--revolutionary. \u003ci\u003eScum\u003c\/i\u003e in particular is a fascinating listen because the two sides of the record--recorded nine months apart in 1986 and 1987--capture very different eras of the band. The a-side sounds so punk to me now... it sounds like the strand of punk that runs through Discharge, Conflict, Rudimentary Peni, and numerous other anarcho and d-beat bands taken to its logical extreme. The recording is also thick and clear (especially compared to the manufactured, computerized rawness so many modern extreme bands go for), and sounds surprisingly un-metal to my 2016 ears. As for the b-side, this is where the revolutionary and fully realized Napalm Death sound begins to take shape. 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