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The Second Coming of Black Sabbath (According to Geezer Butler)

Dave Thompson, The Rocket, 1994

IT WASN'T ALWAYS this way, you know. There was a time when, if you mentioned that you liked Black Sabbath... if you mentioned that your band was influenced by Black Sabbath, you'd be run out of town on a hot rail to hell. The most unfashionable band in the world, the most hated, the most hateful, the best reviews Black Sabbath ever got were the ones that never saw print.

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