Master Of Reality
by Black Sabbath
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Master Of Reality is ranked 3rd best out of 48 albums by Black Sabbath on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Black Sabbath is Paranoid which is ranked number 50 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,214.
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Master Of Reality track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/31/2026 14:55 |  HoldenM | 1,847 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/21/2026 19:59 | martintho | 4,726 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2026 13:50 | xhitmanx | 1,542 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/17/2026 03:10 | stareaterogni0n | 534 | 71/100 |
| ! | 07/15/2026 03:09 | classicjoe | 507 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 83.6/100, a mean average of 82.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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HoldenM 07/31/2026 14:55 | #315494
More like Master of Making Good Albums. HA! Got 'em!
Classic Sabbath, not quite up to the standard of Paranoid obviously but so many killer riffs here. After Forever is my highlight.
Troisième album réussi pour Sabbath. L'usine a riff continue de tourner à plein régime du côté de Iommi.
An excellent follow-up to Paranoid. Some of the most perfect rock/metal songs ever written, with "Sweet Leaf", "Children of the Grave", "Solitude", "Into the Void" and "After Forever" among Black Sabbath's finest compositions. Even the instrumental interludes are also quite gripping.
Their best when it comes to riffs and their biggest sonic masterpiece, but overall Paranoid has better songs.
One of BS's best
Maybe the best sabbath album, but hard to decide with the previous two and Heaven and Hell...
With Children of the Grave the best sabbath riff in my opinion and perfect for listening in one session, not one bad song. Orchid and Embryo are really good instrumentals compared to other "fillers", looking at you FX.
Great Black Sabbath record, not one bad track, excellent folkow-up to their previous album. Heaviness is revolutionary for its time and highly influential. The lyrics are great too: Children Of The Grave is the best example, apocalyptic instrumentation fits with narration of anti-nuclear youth very well.
In my humble opinion, this is the heaviest Sabbath album from the early era (13 comes close for a general heavy comparison of a later time). It is also home to one of my favourite Sabbath tracks 'Children of the Grave'. 'After Forever' is another personal favourite from the ealrly Sabbath catalogue. Not the most creative sleeve art, they could surely have come up with something more 'scarey' akin to their debut and Sabbath Bloddy Sabbath.
This album is phenomenally put together by Sabbath. Every song feels completely unique and each delve into their own sub genre of music. It is incredible to see the versatility on display and just how good they were at being diverse in their sound. This album is amongst their best of all time, probably in the top 3 for me.
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