Children Of The Sea (track)
by Black Sabbath
Year: 1980
From the album Heaven And Hell (track #2)
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Children Of The Sea appears on the following album(s) by Black Sabbath:
- Heaven And Hell (track #2) (this album) (1980)
- Live Evil (track #4) (1982)
- Live At Hammersmith Odeon (track #4) (2007)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 08/18/2026 19:46 |  Repo | 6,125 | 84/100 |
| ! | 06/16/2026 20:00 |  DommeDamian | 78,462 | 51/100 |
| ! | 04/23/2026 09:39 | Pavloss | 2,378 | 60/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 85.4/100, a mean average of 85.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.8.
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Jasonconfused TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/12/2012 00:13 | #57605
The first song Black Sabbath wrote with Dio, I believe. Beautiful acoustic intro with classic Dio vocals that are clean but powerful. Then it kicks into a classic Iommi riff with Dio lifting his voice even more.
Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/20/2017 17:58 | #183534
Very strong cut with a nice change of mood partway in. You get the ballad and the ultra-heavy riff to follow.
