Greatest Hits

by Black Sabbath

Greatest Hits cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: December 1977
  • Label: NEMS
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 50:09
  • Community rating: 4.31/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Patrick Meehan, Rodger Bain

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Issued without the band's direct authorization, this European compilation efficiently distilled the crushing power of the Birmingham quartet's first five studio albums. The collection effectively canonized the sludgy, doom-laden riffs that permanently established the sonic vocabulary of the heavy metal genre.

Genres

Descriptors: riff-heavy, distorted, occult, satanic, bluesy

Tracklist

  1. Paranoid (2:45)
  2. N.I.B. (5:58)
  3. Changes (4:41)
  4. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (5:43)
  5. Iron Man (5:47)
  6. Black Sabbath (6:20)
  7. War Pigs (7:58)
  8. Laguna Sunrise (2:49)
  9. Tomorrow's Dream (3:06)
  10. Sweet Leaf (5:02)

Credits

  • Black Sabbath - primary artist
  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder - cover [painting; uncredited; "the triumph of death"]

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