Vol. 4 Tracklist
Vol. 4 is the fourth studio album by Black Sabbath, released in September 1972. Snowblind was the album’s working title, but Vertigo Records executives were reluctant to release an album with such an obvious drug reference. It was the first album by Sabbath not produced by Rodger Bain; guitarist Tony Iommi assumed production duties. Patrick Meehan, the band’s then-manager, was listed as co-producer, though his actual involvement in the album’s production was minimal.
The following are the back CD images for the 1996 & 2009 releases respectively.
“Vol. 4” Q&A
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What have the artists said about the album?
We wrote and recorded Vol. 4 at the Record Plant in Los Angeles. LA was a real distraction for us, and that album ended up sounding a bit strange. The people who were involved with the record really didn’t have a clue. They were all learning with us, and we didn’t know what we were doing either. The experimental stage we began with Master of Reality continued with Vol. 4 and we were trying to widen our sound and break out of the bag everyone had put us into.
