10 Perfect Hard Rock Albums With No Bad Songs

Every metal band that has come out in the past 50 years owes the members of Black Sabbath a beer. Without their unique brand of bluesy doom and the lyrical themes of death and destruction, the entire genre of heavy metal as we know it probably wouldn't have existed. Though albums like Paranoid opened our eyes to something a little more raw, Master of Reality is where things start to bleed into stoner rock.

Although the traditional sounds of Sabbath are still here, Tony Iommi's riffs are a lot more dirty than before, with songs like Sweet Leaf sounding like they were picked out of a murky swamp. That doesn't mean that the darkness has gone anywhere though. Just take Children of the Grave, which sounds like what they were doing on a song like War Pigs, only it actually sounds like Armageddon is coming this time.

There are even moments on here that fans probably didn't know Sabbath were capable of yet, from the softer passages like Solitude to the closer Into the Void, which might have the distinction of the heaviest riff ever conceived by man. Even though you don't necessarily have to be stoned to appreciate something like this, it's albums like these that make for a headtrip regardless.