Loevmelt

So far, my least favorite Sabbath album, though still not bad (and I know that they have much worse). The sound, regardless of remaster, is just too muddy, especially compared to Master Of Reality, which I think is near perfect. It's still early Black Sabbath, so it obviously has many strengths (I mean it's Black Sabbath, come on), but the overall muddiness prevents it from being my favorite. Listening to it now, it's not really too bad, but it's a step down for sure.

More or less fixes the small issues I had with Paranoid. Much thicker, much heavier, much deeper, just overall an amazing album, and currently my favorite of theirs (though Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is growing on me a lot). The album is essentially perfect. Doomy goodness.

Come on. It's Paranoid by Black Sabbath. One of the first heavy metal albums. I consider the difference between hard rock and heavy metal to be the amount of "darkness" in feeling. Of course, heavy metal is typically heavier than hard rock, but hard rock that's at least a bit creepy or dark is heavy metal in my book.
I don't have many issues with this album. The main issue is that the guitars sound a bit thinner than the albums that come after it, which I'm not a ... read more

I initially didn't really care for this album. While the songs are great and it has the cleanest sound of any Sabbath album (so far), the lack of clarity, the thinner, dryer guitar sound and the drastic volume differences between tracks really put the album low in the ranking for me. I have since heard the 1996 remaster which fixes 2 of the issues I had with this album, the lack of clarity and the volume differences (i got used to the guitar sound after repeated listens). I have changed my ... read more