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Artwork

The album cover features a depiction of Mapledurham Watermill. The watermill seen from the lawns of Mapledurham House The watermill seem from the foot of the village street The water wheel The weir that provides the driving force The mill on the Black Sabbath album cover Mapledurham Watermill is an historic watermill on the River Thames at the village...

The original release had a gatefold sleeve and generic Vertigo 'swirl' inner bag. The inside of the sleeve featured the words "Black Sabbath" on the left side (spilling over slightly onto the right side) and on the right side, an inverted cross. A short poem was printed inside of this cross. Reportedly, the band had no input in the sleeve design and certainly have never used an inverted cross as artwork since. The traditional form of the Western Christian cross, known as the Latin cross. ...

Later vinyl releases on WWA and NEMS duplicated the gatefold sleeve, although certainly the NEMS sleeve was black-on-white, rather than the original silver-on-black.

Track listing

All songs written by Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward except where noted.

European original release

1. "Black Sabbath"
2. "The Wizard"
3. "Behind the Wall of Sleep"
4. "N.I.B."
5. "Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Game With Me)" (Dave Wagner, Dick Weigand, Larry Weigand)
6. "Sleeping Village"
7. "Warning" (Aynsley Dunbar, John Moorshead, Alex Dmochowski, Victor Hickling)

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US/Warner original release

1. "Black Sabbath"
2. "The Wizard"
3. "Behind the Wall of Sleep"
4. "N.I.B."
5. "Wicked World"
6. "Sleeping Village"
7. "Warning" (Dunbar, Moorshead, Dmochowski, Hickling)

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1996 Castle remaster release

1. "Black Sabbath"
2. "The Wizard"
3. "Behind the Wall of Sleep"
4. "N.I.B."
5. "Evil Woman" (Wagner, D. Weigand, L. Weigand)
6. "Sleeping Village"
7. "Warning" (Dunbar, Moorshead, Dmochowski, Hickling)
8. "Wicked World"

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2004 "Black Box" remaster release

1. "Black Sabbath" – 6:19
2. "The Wizard" – 4:23
3. "Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B." – 9:44
4. "Wicked World" – 4:47
5. "A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning" – 14:16
6. "Evil Woman" (Wagner, D. Weigand, L. Weigand) – 3:23

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Trivia

• "Wicked World" was the first track recorded and on this Iommi plays a Fender Stratocaster. When this guitar broke, he switched to his (then) secondary guitar, a Gibson SG: he has played guitars modelled on the SG ever since.
• The original American and Canadian releases of the album had "Wicked World" in place of "Evil Woman" due to conflicts over publishing rights, while the Castle Records 1996 European remaster of the album featured both. This same import package was reissued again by Sanctuary after their buy-out of Castle. Both "Evil Woman" and "Wicked World" are found in the Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978) box set version of the CD. Black Box was released in the US and Canada by Warner Bros./Rhino Records in 2004.
• "Behind the Wall of Sleep" is a reference to the H.P. Lovecraft story Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Indeed, on several ROIO from the Reunion era Ozzy introduces the song as 'Beyond...'
• Early versions of this album have Ozzy's name misspelled as "Ossie Osborne."
• A CD version issued by Castle in France, 1986 featured a bonus track, a live version of "Tomorrow's Dream".^[1][2] However, this was simply lifted from Live At Last, a process repeated across the five studio albums to which Castle had the rights.
• The mysterious woman can be seen as a caricature on Green Day's "Dookie" album cover, in a Where's Waldo? sort of way.
• Acid Mothers Temple released Starless and Bible Black Sabbath as a tribute album, which features a similar cover, except Kawabata Makoto is on the cover.

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Credits

• Ozzy Osbourne – vocals, harmonica on "The Wizard"
• Tony Iommi – guitar
• Geezer Butler – bass guitar
• Bill Ward – drums
• Tom Allom – engineer
• Barry Sheffield – engineer
• Rodger Bain – producer

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Notes

1. ^ Black Sabbath CD Album Discography
2. ^ [1] Rate Your Music