Black Sabbath to re-release Ozzy-era ’70s albums on picture disc vinyl

Black Sabbath have just announced a new picture disc box set, Hand Of Doom.

The limited-edition release – which drops on December 1 – consists of the band’s classic first eight albums with Ozzy Osbourne, from their legendary self-titled debut in 1970 through to 1978’s Never Say Die!. (If you need a reminder, between them came 1970’s Paranoid, the following year’s Master Of Reality, 1972’s Vol 4, 1973’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and then 1975’s Sabotage and the following year’s Technical Ecstasy).

As well as all this iconic music, Hand Of Doom features the artwork printed on Side A of each record. For Black Sabbath, Vol 4, Technical Ecstasy and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath there’ll be ‘original back album artwork on Side B’, whereas on the other LPs it’ll feature era-specific photos of the band on the flip side.

And it all looks like this:

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