Black Sabbath Master of Reality

In February 1971, Black Sabbath returned to the studio to begin work on their third album. After the success of Paranoid table, the group is given more studio time with a suitcase full of money "to buy drugs. "We went into coke, bigtime," says Ward. "Uppers, Downers, Quaaludes, whatever you like, to the point where you come with ideas and forget them, because you just out of here .. "
Production completed in April 1971 and July, the band released Master of Reality, six months after the U.S. release of Paranoid. The album reached the top ten in the United States and Great Britain, and was certified gold in less than two months, eventually being certified platinum in 1980sand Double Platinum in the early 21st century. Master of Reality contained Black Sabbath's first acousticsongs, in addition to fan favorites such as "Son of the grave" and "Sweet Leaf." Critical response was again not profitable time withLester Bang Rolling Stone has refused to Master of Reality as "naive, simple, repetitive," not an absolute good, although later the same magazine put the album at number 298 of the 500 greatest albums list Time, composed in 2003.
After touring the world Master of Reality in 1972, Black Sabbath took the first break of three years. As explained by Bill Ward: .. "The group started to become very tired and very tired, we were on the road non-stop, year after year, I continued to tour and record thinkMaster little reality as the end of an era, the first three album, and we decided to spend our time with the next album.
In June 1972 the group reconvened in Los Angeles to start work on their next album at the Record Plant. Plagued with the registration process, a large number of people because of drug problems. While struggling to record the song "Cornucopia" after "sitting in the middle of the room, just drugs," Bill Ward was nearly fired from the band. "I hate this song, there are models that come ... horrible "Ward said. "I nailed to the end, but my reaction was a cold reception from all this. As "Well, go home, you're not any good now. "I felt like I blew up, I'll get fired." The album was titled "Snowblind" after a song of the same name, which is associated with cocaine abuse. The label has changed the title at the last minute to Black Sabbath Vol. 4, with Ward stating "There is no Volume 1, 2 or 3, the title is pretty stupid really."
Black Sabbath Volume 4 was published in September 1972, and while critics were again underestimated the album era, it achieved gold status in less than a month, and the release of the fourth year running the group to sell one million copies in the United States. With more time in the studio, Volume 4 has seen the group began experimenting with new textures such as strings, piano, orchestration and multi-part songs. The song "Tomorrow's Dream" was released as a single band for the first time since paranoid, but not listed. After the U.S. grand tour, the group traveled to Australia and New Zealand for the first time in 1973, and continental Europe.