Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

I'm not sure at what point something loses it's description as "proto metal", I mean this came out affter Master of Reality. It's a weird term anyway. Well screw it all, this is one of the heaviest and all around most awesome heavy metal albums from way back then imo. Sabbath might top them in the riff department (not to take anything away from Jerusalem's sweet riffs), but this definitely out jams them at least. Some of the guitar here can compete with that rumble most definitely, and there's a great display of fast and hard drumming

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.