LAST LISTENED TO fairly recently
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT okish
RATING
For me this is the heaviest the Sabbath ever went. It's the closer from Master Of Reality in 1971 and is one of my top five Sabbath tracks. Maybe even top three. It's a hard choice.
The intro is typically Sabbath and is nothing special (for them). It's not until around the minute and a quarter mark that things get interesting, when the bass and drums pull out to give Tony Iommi space to play the heaviest riff ever recorded. That in itself would be enough to make the song. Happily, Ozzy's lyrics are pretty good too.
Here Ozzy has chosen to issue humanity a warning of its dire future in the form of an apocalyptic sci-fi vision. In this vision, man has ruined our planet and only a few are able to escape to seek freedom in the stars. It's doom and gloom that fits to a tee the heavist riff ever recorded.
The song starts with this verse:
Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the night sky they blast
Through the universe the engines whine
Could it be the end of man and time
Back on earth the flame of life burns low
Everywhere is misery and woe
Pollution kills the air, the land and sea
Man prepares to meet his destiny
From here things just get darker, with that riff just churning on throughout. It closes with a few minutes of soloing, which doesn't really excite anywhere near as much as that riff.
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