MASTER OF REALITY

Another nice but not so interestig record from the Sabbath fellows. The album starts with the coughs from "Sweet Leaf", the famous budbrain anthem. I guess it rocks, but doesn't really roll to my own chronology of thoughtful heavy anthems. The following "After Forever" succeeds much better, having some religious contemplation on the lyrics, emphasizing the good over evil, and having also pleasant stoner rock groove in it. I remember my friend had a vinyl copy which stuck jumping to the middle part's reprisal of the opening verse, the spin matching with the rhythm correctly, and creating an infinite, musically pleasant black hole being borne to this song. "Embryo" is a small joke by the band, and I wonder why this kind of fillers started to end up in growing pace to the records. "Orchid" is a small would-be a classical guitarist tune, melodically more pleasant than the previous weird shorty. From the other longer songs the only memorable on is the melancholic ballad "Solitude". This gem was used in a nice way on Mika Kaurismäki's "Zombie and A Ghost Train", where a bass player performed by Silu Seppälä drinks himself to death at the side alleys of Istanbul.