Released: Apr 27, 2004. Genre: Rock. Styles: Heavy Metal, British Metal, Album Rock, Hard Rock. Number Of Tracks: 69. Ultimately, most listeners are going to be content with any of the classic four, but Black Box isn't meant for most listeners - it's meant for the devoted, and this box lives up to their high expectations.

POSTED: 10/11/2004 - 04:51 am

Released: May 1970. Genre: Rock. Styles: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal, Album Rock. Number Of Tracks: 5. Black Sabbath's debut album is given over to lengthy songs and suite-like pieces where individual songs blur together and riffs pound away one after another, frequently under extended jams.

POSTED: 04/30/2005 - 04:56 am

Release Date: Sep 1972. Label: Warner Bros.. Genres: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal, Album Rock. Number Of Tracks: 10. Black Sabbath, Vol. 4 is just a cut below its two indisputably classic predecessors, as it begins to run out of steam and memorable riffs toward the end.

POSTED: 01/09/2006 - 02:44 am

Released: 1983. Genre: Heavy Metal. Label: Vertigo / Warner Bros.. Number Of Tracks: 9. It has been panned by critics, but reached #4 in the UK charts as well as the top 40 in the United States.

POSTED: 10/27/2009 - 03:52 am

Release Date: Feb 8, 1994. Label: IRS. Genres: Album Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal, Power Metal, Stoner Metal, Doom Metal. Number Of Tracks: 10. This albums not classic sounding Ozzy with Geoff Nicholl's new age keyboarding, but for me it sound right.

POSTED: 08/21/2007 - 08:41 am

Release Date: Jun 1992. Genre: Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Stoner Metal, Doom Metal. Label: Warner Bros.. Number Of Tracks: 11. With ten-year-old internal tensions still gnawing away at the band, they hastily created "Dehumanizer", a weird side note in their long history.

POSTED: 08/29/2007 - 07:39 am

Released: Apr 19, 2013. Genre: Heavy Metal, Traditional Doom Metal, Stoner Rock. Label: Republic Records. Number Of Tracks: 1. Sabbath is back! This single made a lot of classic fans very happy and it's easy to tell why.

POSTED: 04/22/2013 - 04:55 am

Release Date: Mar 14, 2006. Label: RRW. Genres: British Metal, Heavy Metal, Album Rock, Hard Rock. Number Of Tracks: 16. Sabbath's sweeping and masterful metamorphosis away from that tradition spawned heavy metal music, inventing the template for everything that would follow.

POSTED: 06/04/2007 - 03:32 pm

Released: Apr 24, 1989. Genre: Heavy Metal. Label: I.R.S.. Number Of Tracks: 8. The follow up to 1987's excellent "Eternal Idol" album, "Headless Cross" sees Black Sabbath draw even more influence from 80's heavy metal bands whilst at the same time trying to regain their dark, heavy sound they became so well known for.

POSTED: 02/08/2012 - 03:14 am

Release Date: May 1980. Label: Warner Bros.. Genres: Album Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal. Number Of Tracks: 8. Heaven & Hell features the dynamic seven-minute title track, which builds from a lazy throb to a high-octane roar, and the dynamic "Die Young," which segues from an uptempo saunter to a flamboyant midsection strangely reminiscent of Queen.

POSTED: 07/10/2006 - 08:31 am

Release Date: Dec 1982. Label: Vertigo. Genres: Album Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal, Hard Rock. Number Of Tracks: 14. Black Sabbath's first attempt at an official live album was the straw that broke the camel's back; or rather, it split the band's second lineup right down the middle.

POSTED: 01/23/2008 - 04:20 am

Released: Aug 1971. Genre: Rock. Tones: Angry, Bleak, Bitter, Aggressive, Nihilistic, Wintry, Gloomy, Menacing. Styles: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal. Number Of Tracks: 8

POSTED: 01/27/2004 - 08:58 am

Release Date: Oct 1978. Label: Warner Bros.. Genres: Album Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal. Number Of Tracks: 9. After quitting briefly following the band's previous tour, Ozzy returned to Black Sabbath for 1978's Never Say Die! - an album whose unfocused songs perfectly reflected the band's tense personnel problems and drug abuse.

POSTED: 01/14/2008 - 02:32 am

Released: Sep 18, 1970. Genre: Heavy Metal. Label: Vertigo. Number Of Tracks: 8. The best part of the album is the band. They can play well and everything they play fits the music very well.

POSTED: 10/08/2003 - 04:09 am

Released: Aug 20, 2002. Genre: Rock. Styles: Heavy Metal, Acid Rock, British Metal, Album Rock. Number Of Tracks: 18. Recorded at several different points in their career, this live disc is a psychedelic journey into the primal sludge of early heavy metal.

POSTED: 07/27/2004 - 05:01 am

Released: Oct 20, 1998. Genre: Rock. Styles: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal. Number Of Tracks: 18. It includes their most enduring classics as well as a few surpizes recorded in their native Birmingham in December 1997.

POSTED: 05/17/2004 - 10:49 am

Released: Dec 1973. Genre: Rock. Styles: Album Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal. Number Of Tracks: 8. With Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Black Sabbath made a concerted effort to raise their creative stakes and dispensed unprecedented attention to the album's production, arrangements, and even the cover artwork.

POSTED: 03/07/2005 - 05:26 am

Released: Aug 1975. Genre: Rock. Styles: Album Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal. Number Of Tracks: 9. Sabotage attempted to continue the evolution begun with 1973's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, but somewhat lacked its focus.

POSTED: 02/19/2005 - 07:17 am

Release Date: Oct 1976. Label: Warner Bros.. Genres: Album Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal. Number Of Tracks: 8. Black Sabbath was unraveling at an alarming rate around the time of their second to last album with original singer Ozzy Osbourne, 1976's Technical Ecstasy.

POSTED: 07/18/2006 - 09:27 am

Release Date: Jul 25, 2000. Label: Castle. Genres: Album Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal, Hard Rock. Number Of Tracks: 32. Spanning 32 tracks and two discs, The Best of Black Sabbath is arguably the best overview/introduction of the legendary metal band yet assembled.

POSTED: 03/29/2006 - 02:43 am

Release Date: Apr 2, 2007. Label: Rhino. Genres: Heavy Metal, British Metal, Album Rock. Number Of Tracks: 16. This is a compilation of greatest hits compiled from the four albums recorded by Black Sabbath during its years with frontman Ronnie James Dio.

POSTED: 04/03/2007 - 06:04 am

Released: 1987. Genre: Heavy metal. Label: Vertigo / Warner Bros. Number Of Tracks: 9. The album doesn't have a lot of replay value, and I highly doubt you will be listening to it all the way through more than a couple of times.

POSTED: 08/02/2010 - 03:54 am

Release Date: Nov 1981. Label: Warner Bros.. Genres: Album Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal. Number Of Tracks: 9. Mob Rules was given a much punchier, in-your-face mix by Birch, who seemed re-energized after his work on New Wave of British Heavy Metal upstarts Iron Maiden's Killers album.

POSTED: 07/12/2006 - 08:06 am

Released: Feb 1976. Genre: Rock. Tones: Hostile, Angry, Bleak, Rebellious, Visceral, Malevolent, Nihilistic, Paranoid, Menacing. Styles: Heavy Metal, British Metal. Number Of Tracks: 14

POSTED: 11/18/2003 - 11:27 am