BLACK SABBATH- BLACK SABBATH - VERTIGO SWIRLY ITALY VO.6 1970 EX+

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        BLACK SABBATH - BLACK SABBATH                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           TYPE SINGLE LP - STEREO LABEL/PRESSING INFO

VERTIGO "SWIRLY" with MADE IN ITALY printed on the B side label.

CATALOGUE NUMBER VO 6 /847 903 VTY YEAR OF RELEASE 1970 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. (SLEEVE) RECORD (ITALY) SLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD- BLACK INNER "OSSIE" MISPRINT & "WARNING BY DUNBAR" INSERTS/EXTRAS

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(CLEAN   LABELS  with  NO      Writing rips tears  stickers with LIGHT spindleusage and  LIGHT overall handling  storage and ageing marks, with a bit of watermarking and foxing

                  SLEEVE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Front board/Inner gatefold EX-

CLEAN SLEEVE with  NO writing rips or tears stickers.. FRONT board is unworn with no ringmarking, and just a small surface scuff upper left side. INNER GATEFOLD is clean with light overall ageing handling and storage with small amount of tape residue bottom far left

Rear Board EX Rear   board is  clean with LIGHT storage wear Flipbacks N/A N/A Spine EX Spine is complete and uncrushed with light storage wear Top   & bottom edges EX- Top edge has minor wear, bottom has quite a bit of storage rubbing with card along its length Opening EX Openings have LIGHT usage and  LIGHT wear Corners EX- Corners have LIGHTISH wear   INNER /EXTRAS                                 

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Black Sabbath's debut album is the birth of heavy metal as we now know it. Compatriots like Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple were already setting new standards for volume and heaviness in the realms of psychedelia, blues-rock, and prog rock. Yet of these metal pioneers, Sabbath are the only one whose sound today remains instantly recognizable as heavy metal, even after decades of evolution in the genre. Circumstance certainly played some role in the birth of this musical revolution -- the sonic ugliness reflecting the bleak industrial nightmare of Birmingham; guitarist Tony Iommi's loss of two fingertips, which required him to play slower and to slacken the strings by tuning his guitar down, thus creating Sabbath's signature style.                                   

These qualities set the band apart, but they weren't wholly why this debut album transcends its clear roots in blues-rock and psychedelia to become something more. Sabbath's genius was finding the hidden malevolence in the blues, and then bludgeoning the listener over the head with it. Take the legendary album-opening title cut. The standard pentatonic blues scale always added the tritone, or flatted fifth, as the so-called "blues note"; Sabbath simply extracted it and came up with one of the simplest yet most definitive heavy metal riffs of all time.                                    

Thematically, most of heavy metal's great lyrical obsessions are not only here, they're all crammed onto side one. "Black Sabbath," "The Wizard," "Behind the Wall of Sleep," and "N.I.B." evoke visions of evil, paganism, and the occult as filtered through horror films and the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, and Dennis Wheatley. Even if the album ended here, it would still be essential listening. Unfortunately, much of side two is given over to loose blues-rock jamming learned through Cream, which plays squarely into the band's limitations. For all his stylistic innovations and strengths as a composer, Iommi isn't a hugely accomplished soloist.                                    

  But even if the seams are still showing on this quickly recorded document, Black Sabbath is nonetheless a revolutionary debut whose distinctive ideas merely await a bit more focus and development. Henceforth Black Sabbath would forge ahead with a vision that was wholly theirs.                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Postal Shipping & Handling charges Region SINGLE ITEM EXTRAS UK (2ND CLASS) FOR A SINGLE LP/12" SINGLE £4.20 1 EXTRA SINGLE LP FREE - 3 TO 4 SINGLE LP'S ANOTHER £3.00 - 5 UPWARDS PLEASE ASK AS ITS GETTING COMPLICATED. Europe FOR 1 SINGLE LP £8.00 FOR 1 EXTRA SINGLE LP - £1.50 , 3 ITEMS & ABOVE PLEASE EMAIL FOR A POSTAGE PRICE USA Canada and Japan FOR 1  SINGLE LP £12.00 FOR 1 EXTRA SINGLE LP - £2.50, 3 ITEMS & ABOVE PLEASE EMAIL FOR A POSTAGE PRICE Australia and New Zealand FOR 1  SINGLE LP £13.00 FOR 1 EXTRA SINGLE LP £3.50, 3 ITEMS & ABOVE PLEASE ASK FOR A POSTAGE PRICE Recorded Delivery (U.K.) £1.10 N/A International Signed for £5.30 OVER £50 - 7.90 per package PLEASE READ: Unfortunately due to ongoing problems with buyers in certain countries any item or combination of items that exceed £25.00 in total will be invoiced with a charge for trackable shipping (International signed for). There are no exceptions to this rule. Thanks                      

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