After Forever (track)
by Black Sabbath
Year: 1971
From the album Master Of Reality (track #2)
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After Forever appears on the following album(s) by Black Sabbath:
- Master Of Reality (track #2) (this album) (1971)
- Symptom Of The Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978 (track #14) (compilation) (2002)
- Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978) (track #18) (compilation) (2004)
- The Ten Year War (track #17) (compilation) (2017)
- The End (4 February 2017 - Birmingham) (track #4) (2017)
- Under Wheels Of Confusion 1970-1987 (track #12) (compilation) (1996)
- Attention! Black Sabbath Vol. 2 (track #5) (compilation) (1974)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/31/2026 14:34 |  HoldenM | 9,496 | 91/100 |
| ! | 07/17/2026 02:46 | stareaterogni0n | 6,171 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/05/2026 03:22 | SD100852 | 12,117 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/23/2026 09:36 | Pavloss | 2,378 | 60/100 |
| ! | 01/24/2026 19:25 | alexandermause | 17,953 | 85/100 |
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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 85.8/100, a mean average of 85.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.3.
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Goliath 11/08/2022 16:28 | #291147
One of Sabbath's greatest songs, the bass line, guitar solos, lyrics, hook-line it's all there.
Grouse 07/29/2018 12:36 | #218921
Geezer fuckin Butler on this song, wow!
This is probably a personal statement by Iommi, since he's credited as the only author of the song
neilgee 09/24/2015 16:20 | #150371
Sabbath were one inspired band at this time, this track drives along nicely, it's a real rocker, but they weren't just going through the motions, they were flying.
Shame they couldn't stay this good but who could? Just enjoy a glorious moment in rock history!
FreakWolfenstein 11/06/2014 17:17 | #126332
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You said it, Jason!
This is one of my favorite tunes by the band. You just have to love those main riffs, one of which sounds very much like Allman Brothers to me.
Jasonconfused 12/31/2012 22:30 | #59631
Black Sabbath's answer to all the accusations of whether they were devil worshippers or not. The song isn't so much a call for conversion to Christianity as much as it is a call for people to think for themselves.
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