Black Sabbath - 2015 European Sanctuary/BMG label 7-track LP - 180 gram Reissue

2015 UK Sanctuary label 7-track Reissue LP - doom behemoths highly influential, innovative and groundbreaking debut album originally released on the Vertigo imprint in 1970.

The album was labelled "bullshit necromancy" and the "worst of the counterculture on a plastic platter" by The Village Voice' Robert Christgau, and "just like Cream! But worse" by Rolling Stone's Lester Bangs... back then.

Q magazine has the album in their list of the "Best Metal Albums of All Time" 30 years later - stating that "Black Sabbath" "...was to prove so influential it remains a template for metal bands three decades on."

Vinyl is manufactured by the German Optimal pressing facility as a 180 g vinyl pressing -  gatefold picture cover has the original, classic and ever eerie artwork by Keith MacMillan/Keef.

Condition: New/Still Factory Sealed:
Unopened and unused - new!

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1 Black Sabbath 6:20
2 The Wizard 4:24
3 Behind The Wall Of Sleep 3:37
4 N.I.B. 6:08

Side 2:
1 Evil Woman (Larry Weigand, Dick Weigand, David Wagner) 3:25
2 Sleeping Village 3:46
3 Warning (Aynsley Dunbar, Alex Dmochowski, Victor Hickling, John Moorshead) 10:28

All songs written and composed by Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne, except as noted.

Recorded 16 October 1969 at Regent Sound Studios in London, England
Lacquer cutting, vinyl pressing at Optimal Media GmbH

Credits:

Black Sabbath:
Ozzy Osborne - vocal, harmonica on "The Wizard"
Toni Yommi - guitar
Geezer Butler - bass
Bill Ward - drums

Technical Credits:
Rodger Bain - production, Jew's harp on "Sleeping Village"
Tom Allom, Barry Sheffield - engineering

Artwork:
Marcus Keef - graphic design, photography