![]() ![]() This logo was also used by the NEMS record label for the ‘We Sold Our Souls For Rock ‘n’ Roll’ compilation double album in 1976…one of the first times a logo style had been repeated, although it was a cynical label cash-in and not a ‘legitimate’ band release:įutura Demi Bold for both album title and band ‘logo’. Simply uses Futura Extra Black Condensed with a hand drawn, stylised ‘S’. The band logo is simply an Old English blackletter font which is very discretely placed beneath the illustration. This album features a distinctive hand drawn lettering style for the album title that dominates the front cover above the striking deathbed scene illustration. As you can plainly see, neither is anywhere near close. The original logo is at the top, Baltar font in the middle and Washington Black at the bottom. Sadly, it’s not Baltar, Balta or Washington Black…it’s hand-drawn and nothing comes close to it in digitised format. Here’s another oft-mistakenly identified Sabbath font. With some warping and emboldening of each individual character in Illustrator or Photoshop it would be possible to accurately recreate this logo style: MASTER OF REALITYĭesigned by Bloomsbury Group and art directed by Mike Stanford, the design is based on distorted and emboldened lettering using the font Kabel Ultra. What’s immediately apparent is that the ‘counters’ or ‘apertures’ of the B A and P characters are missing or filled in. ![]() Here’s the album logo and the digitised version below for comparison: There is a reasonable version of this that’s downloadable, called “Dark Black”. PARANOIDĪnother Marcus Keef design and featuring lettering that is obviously hand drawn. ![]() There is a digitised version of Manuscript Capitals available for download but it is pretty awfully executed and not really worth downloading in my opinion. Sadly, Mr MacMillan ignored my request for an interview on this and his other album sleeve designs. It would seem therefore that Marcus Keef ( aka Keith MacMillan read this article on ) either used the Letraset letter forms for inspiration and redrew it to suit the wording ‘Black Sabbath’ or it’s from an entirely different source altogether. You can see certain similarities, but far too many differences for it to be a close match. Here’s the logo from the album sleeve with the same characters from Letraset’s “Manuscript Capitals” positioned beneath for comparison: Nearly everybody will try and tell you that the debut album sleeve has a logo that is made up of Letraset “Manuscript Capitals”…and they’re wrong! Close, but wrong!. AC/DC, IRON MAIDEN).īlack Sabbath were no exception to this lack of brand identity in their early years and their sleeve designers used a myriad of logo styles to identify their latest release, with complete disregard for design continuity! It wasn’t until the late 1970s that bands began to see the power of consistently branding their product with the same logo design (e.g. There are a few stray necessary tracks scattered throughout the group\'s other early-\'70s albums, but Master of Reality is the last time they delivered a consistent album and its influence can be heard throughout the generations of heavy metal bands that followed.Few, if any, bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s had a specific ‘brand’ logo that was consistently used throughout their album sleeves and merchandise. Taken in tandem with the more consistent Paranoid, Master of Reality forms the core of Sabbath\'s canon. If the album is a showcase for anyone, it is Tony Iommi, who keeps the album afloat with a series of slow, loud riffs, the best of which - \"Sweet Leaf\" and \"Children of the Grave\" among them - rank among his finest playing. But on Master of Reality Sabbath still were fresh and had a seemingly endless supply of crushingly heavy riffs to bludgeon their audiences into sweet, willing oblivion. On its follow-up, Master of Reality, the group merely repeated the formula, setting the stage for a career of recycling the same sounds and riffs. \'With Paranoid, Black Sabbath perfected the formula for their lumbering heavy metal. Master of Reality is the third album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, originally released in 1971 and now available on 180 Gram vinyl. ![]()
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