Black Sabbath- Vol 4- Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath’s long, anything-but-monochrome history with the remastered audiophile heavy (what else?) 180-gram vinyl continues with one of their best albums by the original members, Vol. 4.
While music critics were not hesitant to slag off every Black Sabbath release, 1972’s Vol 4 included, nevertheless it became the band’s fourth consecutive album to sell over a million copies in the U.S., reaching #13 on Billboard and #8 sales in the UK. Yet many detractors who had watched Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, and Lon Chaney in such classic scary movies as Dracula and Frankenstein, nevertheless felt that Black Sabbath’s fantasy deadpan doomsday warnings in such songs as “Tomorrow’s Dream”,”Children of the Grave”,”Snowblind”,”Changes”, and “Supernaut” were somehow a threat. Black Sabbath co-founder and original lead singer Ozzy Osbourne joins me In the Studio for what is widely regarded as the last classic album from the Godfathers of Heavy Metal. – Redbeard