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Black Sabbath – Vol. 4
Title: Black Sabbath – Vol. 4
Year/Genre: 1972, Heavy Metal
Condition: New
Cultural Facts:
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Recorded in 1972 at the Record Plant in Los Angeles during a period of heavy touring and rampant cocaine use within the band.
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Features “Snowblind,” whose open references to cocaine reportedly made the label nervous about promotion and presentation.
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Marked a more experimental phase for Sabbath, bringing piano, mellotron, and denser arrangements into their heavy metal template.
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