Black Sabbath: Volume 4
Max Bell, Let It Rock, December 1972
DESPITE BLACK SABBATH'S protestations that they have spent both a great deal of time and money on their latest album (earthshatteringly entitled Volume 4) the end product still manages to be a monumental bore.
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