On the 50th anniversary of its release, we look at Black Sabbath’s introspective doom masterpiece Master Of Reality From the 1970 debut to the final bow of 13, this is the definitive ranking of ...

When Black Sabbath closed the final performance from ... When Tony Iommi downtuned his guitar for third album Master Of Reality, he set in motion a sound which spawned an entire musical genre.

instead infusing it with a heavy dose of reality. Black Sabbath formed around singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward in the late ’60s.

Born on December 3, 1948, in the Aston neighborhood of Birmingham, England, Osbourne became a founding member of Black Sabbath ... ‘Master of Reality’ and ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.’ ...