SABOTAGE = Peak of creative studio time and Ozzy's voice.

Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die. Criminally underrated.

Great to see love for Tony Martin. Criminally underappreciated era. The Shining off The Eternal Idol has some of the best Iommi riffs ever. Looking forward to the box set supposedly coming out this year.

Great list, I really like TYR, Headless Cross and Eternal Idol. Very cool to see those. Albums I need to recollect. Heaven and Hell is such a banger. Great Ranking James.

"The Writ" is best Sabbath song of all time

Least favourite is 13 Favourite is Master Of Reality. Awesome video. I love Born Again, I get obsessed with that album now and then. Eternal Idol is my favourite with Tony Martin. Got a soft spot for Seventh Star also which a lot of people do hate, Glenn Hughes is absolutely fantastic

Great ranking! Love to see the Tony Martin albums reissued.🤘

Awesome fun list! Always great stuff, sir.

Really refreshing to see a black sabbath ranking video where it's not just the 1st six albums in the top six! I'm with you about the tony martin era being underrated I only have cross purposes in my collection though personally vol 4 is my favourite with mob rules coming in 2nd great content as always james!

Great review.Very fair and balanced assessment of Sabbath discography.

Excellent ranking video James, finnaly had the time to properly check it out. Massive discography, I think that "Sabotage" & "Never Say Die" are very underrated! My favorite Sabbath album would probably be "Master of Reality". 🤘 Good to see Headless Cross so high on your list. Also: 15:18 😂👍

Born Again is brilliant, Ian Gillan never sounded this good again

Awesome Black Sabbath ranking video my favorite is paranoid and just got done listening to Motörhead Iron Fist cd

So glad you're not a Sabbath snob and ignore or diss the Martin era or the Dio era for that matter. Good mix of all line ups

Always good to see rankings of bands I like but have little of to get a feel what albums to look out for as I've only got the first 2 albums but I've recently ordered Eternal Idol which I like what I've sampled. Cheers mate. 🍻🤘🏻

I have a huge soft spot for the Dio era, Mob Rules was the first Sabbath track I ever heard, when it was released as a single. This is a good ranking, well done sir

Very enjoyable video. Yeah, 'The Devil You Know' is a Black Sabbath album in my eyes too. I love the main riff from "The Shining"... might be my favorite Sabbath riff. "No Stranger to Love" is a fantastic AOR track IMO. 'Dehumanizer' rocks!

I just picked up 3 reissues in an effort to round out my Sabbath Collection. What a band!!!! I love the Dio stuff and the early Ozzy stuff as well. Everything they ever put out is above average though. Cheers Mr. B

Awesome Black Sabbath ranking, James!

Nice to see Mob Rules rank so highly, its actually my favourite Sabs album, but its pretty underrated usually.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is my favorite album of theirs as well. It has a sort of subdued magic about it that makes me keep coming back to it. It's definitely their deepest album lyrically and conceptually as well.

Oh wow I have literally just acquired the Black Box so am thinking that I’m gonna listen to them in your ranking order. There’s loads of Sabbath that I haven’t heard hence why I got this box set so this could be really interesting! 🤘 *rummaging for a pen and paper lol*

Great video bro and a very tough one as well so many classic albums to cover. From Ozzy to Dio to Tony as well as Ian and Glenn all great singers and with a revolving door of musicians they manage to pump out great albums and some not so great ones your ranking is great and ill include mine. 20. Forbidden 19. Cross Purposes 18. Never Say Die 17. 13 16. Seventh Star(i really like this album too) 15. Technical Ecstasy 14. Tyr 13. Black Sabbath 12. Born Again 11. Sabatoge 10. Dehumanizer 9. Enternal Idol 8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 7. Volume 4 6. The Mob Rules 5. Headless Cross 4. Master of Reality 3. Devil You Know 2. Paranoid 1. Heaven and Hell Keep at it brother your videos are awesome 🤘

Hi James!!! it's always cool to see other VC's member take on Sabbath's catalogue and nice to see you added Heaven & Hell to the list. When i started listening to music in the mid 80's Sabbath was not a "cool band" to listen, so i was kind of late to the party and the stuff they released in that decade. I think you're right about "13" i will listen to it again and also share your thoughts about "Born Again". Now what i really need to do is add the stuff they did with Tony Martin there're some killer songs and great riffs. cheers and be well

Excellent ranking mate, my top 10 isn't much different from yours, same as you the Heaven & hell plus Mob rules albums are in there somewhere, I'm sorry you cannot ignore the amazing Dio era of this band. Black Sabbath are so important, they shaped heavy metal for us, massive love & respect. Cheers

I love Black Sabbath i think that all albums are amazing nice video

Believe it or not, I’ve never heard the heaven and hell album! Completely missed it for my ranking and I really must get on to it! Excellent ranking!

My all-time favorite band! Great ranking! Dehumanizer got a reissue a couple of years ago. Just looked it up and it’s more affordable than the £60. I got the reissue and it sounds AMAZING!

"Master of Reality"" start of Doom Metal as well as Stoner Metal

Black Sabbath is my favorite band. I thoroughly enjoyed your opinion on these records. Some killer tunes from all the era's. Iommi rules! Rock on 🤘

Excellent ranking. Great vid. 1) Sabotage, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Vol 4 2) Master of Reality 3) Paranoid 4) Black Sabbath 5) Heaven and Hell 6) Born Again 7) Mob Rules 8) Die In Ecstasy: best songs from the 2, Back Street Kids You Won't Change Me It's Alright Juniors Eyes A Hard Road All Moving Parts (Stand Still) Air Dance Rock N Roll Doctor Breakout Swinging The Chain Damaged Soul (from 13, Really rocks)

Awesome Sabbath ranking James! This is a band I've never truly given a proper go to, obviously ive heard songs from it and like them, but never heard full albums. I think next year I'm gonna bite the bullet and finally given them a proper listen! I think I'll go with the early Ozzy albums first because most say those are the best. Plus I'm not a big Dio fan, I prefer Ozzy. The Tony Martin ones might be cool, I'll have to see. Thanks man 😊🤘

Months ago I ask you during your QnA video if you were going to do this and a Judas Priest ranking, and now you have, thank you good sir. Did not disappoint.

Good man for taking such a big catalogue for ranking. Legendary doesn't even come close.

Alright Mate , your Top Two would have been mine. I remember buying Heaven and Hell on release day wondering what it would be like , got it home and it blew me away. Take Care and be lucky.

Good ranking. Fair play.

Thank you for ranking 'The devil you know' , that's a black sabbath album too, doesn't matter what dumb businessman say.

Great job on the ranking. It’s a hard discography for many ppl to rank, especially if their die hard fans of Oz/Ronnie/Tony and that one Ian Gillian record 🤣. I do like Zero the Hero though I must say. Everyone knows my stance on sabbath so Imma leave it there 😁🤘🏻

Great ranking. Tony Martin era was definitely under rated. Vol.4 or Heaven and Hell for me but so many truly great albums its difficult to rank them.

love your rankings

Wow ain’t this ironic lol, just last night I looked on your channel to see if you had any Black Sabbath videos lol, hope your doing good though, great video

Interesting to hear your thoughts on these albums James. It's a tough discography to rank as they have a lot of top quality albums, can't argue with your ranking. Ozzy is the classic voice you think of when it comes to Sabbath but Martin does an excellent job on the albums he features on and really enhances them and its a shame Gillan and Hughes only did one album apiece . My favourites are Headless Cross, Master of reality, dehumanizer, sabbath bloody sabbath and the first two Dio was on.

I got nothing from Tony Martin,they are very hard to get by. My personal favourite is Sabbath bloody Sabbath. I used to be hiding behind a sofa scared shit less but loved it. Great video sir 👏👍

Thanks for sharing. I would like to see Tony & Glenn Hughes get together again. Indeed Glenn still has a fantastic set of pipes. Cheers!

Great list, and I like to see so much respect for Tony Martin. Headless Cross was my first Album from Sabbath, it was released when I was 15 years old, and therefore I have soft spot for the Tony Martin era. I really appreciate that you mentioned The Devil you know. RJD for me is the best Metal Singer of all Time, and I was soo glad when the album was released. For the rest, I really go along with your list, well with most of it (Dehumanizer is a bit low on the list), but Heaven and Hell for me remains the best Sabbath Album of all Time. Anyway: Well done!

Tony Martin era is definitely underrated. Aside from the generally poor Forbidden all his albums hold up really well a a collective body of work and his vocals are amazing.

1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 2. Heaven & Hell 3. Sabotage 4. Mob Rules 5. Eternal Idol 6. Vol. 4 7. Seventh Star 8. Paranoid 9. Dehumanizer 10. Born Again 11. TYR 12. Headless Cross 13. Forbidden 14. Cross Purposes 15. Black Sabbath 16. Master of Reality 17. 13 18. Never Say Die 19. Technical Ecstasy

I Love The Devil You Know. A dark,HEAVY album. It is almost doom metal. Every track is absolutely great.And I agree with you,it is actually a Black Sabbath album,it would be a number one in my ranking.Number two would be The Headless Cross and number three- Eternal Idol.

Interesting ranking, it's always interesting to hear other people's takes on the catalogue of bands you love. I personally would have Master of Reality as my favourite, followed by Sabotage. If i remember correctly, Bill is wearing his wife's tights on the cover of Sabotage. I may be in the minority but i have always preferred Mob Rules to Heaven & Hell.

Great video👏🏼 Black sabbath is still the best band🤟🏻

I used to live a mile away from Geezer

I am a first album fanatic. Great album.

Dehumanizer is criminally underrated. Once it hits tv crimes and letters from earth it’s steamrolling

Kreator albums next?

Good morning Mr B love the ranking I do love a bit of Sabbath I've tried to get Headless cross many times Amazon take the piss with £12 postage lol any other suggestions were I can buy this?

Man I really enjoyed 13 all disc 1 played it for months didn’t realize so many people disliked it but then I discovered dio years Ian Gillian Toni Martin and even glen hughes a lot of great great music

The truth is, that it's pretty tricky to rank Sabbath albums, because they changed so much over all those decades. Personally I like most of the Tony Martin a LOT more than all the stuff with Ozzy. I can easily accept the impact and role the early Sabbath had, but in terms of the music, well oh well. But of course everybody is welcome to have their own oppinion. And yes in terms of Valhalla from the TYR album.....perfect tune to call you into battle, haha....awesome. Also yes to The headless cross....awesome album. Heaven and Hell and this one are my favs.

I agree regarding the last two tracks on the debut.. I can't get used to that overlong (in my opinion) guitar solo on the Warning. I would have ranked it higher, though! My favourite is Vol 4.

1.Heaven and Hell 2.Sabotage 3.Headless Cross 4.Mob Rules 5.Born Again 6.Vol 4 7.Master of Reality 8.Paranoid 9.Black Sabbath 10.The Devil You Know 😊

Wheels of confusion is my all time fav sabbath song. It’s simply a masterpiece

Really great album ranking full of great opinions! My ranking : 1. Heaven and Hell 2. Master of Reality 3. Vol 4 4. Mob Rules 5. Sabotage 6. Paranoid 7. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 8. Headless Cross 9. Black Sabbath 10. Dehumanizer 11. TYR 12. Born Again 13. Eternal Idol 14. Devil You Know 15. Technical Ecstasy 16. Cross Purposes 17. Forbidden 18. Never Say Die 19. Seventh Star 20. 13

Great list, here’s mine. 20. Forbidden 19. Never Say Die 18. Cross Purposes 17. 13 16. Technical Ecstasy 15. Seventh Star 14. Born Again 13. The Eternal Idol 12. Sabotage 11. Paranoid 10. Vol 4 9. Headless Cross 8. The Devil You Know 7. Tyr 6. Black Sabbath 5. Dehumanizer 4. Mob Rules 3. Master of Reality 2. Heaven and Hell 1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Thank you for another great video, all though I don't agree with everything (dosen't matter as oppinions are always subjective, the more important is I enjoy your videoes and the way you present them) and keep them comming :) For me personal, I have never been a huge Black Sabbath fan, but I would lie if said I don't like anything, because I really do. However, I do think that a lot of the Ozzy (and despite there are 4 Ozzy albums I do enjoy, I am not a big Ozzy fan either) era are overrated and the only album I love as a whole is Master of Reality, but I don't own it yet, but I will get my hands on it and since I lack an album from that era it feels kind of wrong so I need to get it :) But if we include The Devil you know then I've got six Sabbath albums - all "4" Dio albums plus The Headless Cross and I would Rank them as follows: 1) Dehumanizer (not really surprising for as Strange Highways is my favourite Dio album - not because it is trendy to love something overlooked, but because it has been since I've bought it back in 1994 when I as a Scandinavian saw it for the 1st time and after listening to it just a couple of times) 2) The Devil You Know 3) Mob Rules 4) Headless Cross 5) Heaven and Hell (it's your favourite album, and the best Sabbath song of all time is on it (title track) but there are also some stuff I really don't like such as Lady Evil) 6) Tyr Despite the ranking I like all of those albums otherwise I wouldn't have bought them and almost surpass the limit I am willing to pay for an album (no more than 30£) Overall, Black Sabbath for me is apart from those albums I own and Master of Reality which I intend to buy, a band, where I would go on Qobuz and buy individual tracks to make my own "best of" because there are fantastic stuff as well on most of the albums, and then burn it on CD-R and listen :)

a difficult task... such a body of work! Dio Sabbath was an entirely different animal. He really seemed to push Tony and Geezer musically. They were good with Tony Martin. They were decent with Glenn.They were great with Ozz, save 13 which was a huge letdown. Gillian was a good experiment. They were brilliant with Dio! Each key member at key moments carried the music to legendary status.

Super excellent example of British metal music 🤟👍⭐️👍🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟 Forbidden 1995 Tony Martin ufff my respect!!!! Excellent album!!!

Just listening to new Bruce Dickinson’s solo album.. have you got it yet .. sounds really great 👍

Oh, a cameo from Ice T, it MUST be good!!! lol

Never Say Die at 18 is bananas 🍌🍌 All in good fun tho 👍

Ya Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell is my fav too. Cheers mate

1 first album 2 master of reality 3 paranoid 4 heaven and hell 5 mob rules

This is my current ranking, but I will say that Seventh Star may be moving up in the future. That album is pretty badass actually. 19. Born Again 18. Forbidden 17. Never Say Die 16. 13 15. Cross Purposes 14. Seventh Star 13. Vol. 4 12. Tyr 11. Sabotage 10. The Eternal Idol 9. Paranoid 8. Dehumanizer 7. Black Sabbath 6. Master of Reality 5. Technical Ecstasy 4. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 3. Heaven and Hell 2. Headless Cross 1. Mob Rules

Im not big on Dio so its hard to get into a lot of his solo stuff or with Sabbath, i definitely like Ozzy era Sabbath best

Heaven & Hell and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath also my two favorites from the Dio and Ozzy albums. Curious, would you rank Eternal Idol higher when you consider the Ray Gillen demos, released as an official Sabbath album on the deluxe version in 2010? I believe they are spectacular, and the songs were much better suited to Gillen's vocals. Martin would sound excellent on the albums that followed, esp. Headless Cross.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, that cover art was done by artist Drew Struzan, he did Alice Coopers Welcome to my nightmare cover. Drew is famous for his movie poster art, he did the Star Wars prequels posters, back to the future posters, harry potter, Police Accademy, he's pretty famous. In fact, that's Drew Struzan himself on the cover , as the guy in bed.

Awesome list. We agree on most. My ranking, best to worst; Sabotage Born Again Master Of Reality Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Paranoid Mob Rules Vol. 4 The Devil You Know The Eternal Idol Dehumanizer Cross Purposes Headless Cross Technical Ecstasy TYR Seventh Star Never Say Die 13 Forbidden

Great video me ode, knew you wouldn't follow convention concerning the ozzy albums, never really got on with his singing, i first got in to sabbuff in 78/79, i bought the vol 4 album, listened to a couple of others and then the Dio albums came out. kinnel. So, only doing a top 10. 01- Mob Rules 02- Headless Cross 03- Heaven & Hell 04- Vol 4 05- Master Of Reality 06- Sabbuff Bluddy Sabbuff 07- Born Again 08- Tyr 09- Paranoid (truly never need to hear it again) 10- Sabotage Music On Vinyl have reissued the first two DEFIANCE albums, they sound freakin awesome (california thrash 89/90), well worth checking them out

Tony Martin era box is finally coming out next month.. are you buying it

My personal Top 20 Black Sabbath Studio Albums Ranking: 1. Paranoid 2. Black Sabbath 3. Master of Reality 4. Heaven & Hell 😇😈 5. Mob Rules 6. Volume 4 7. Dehumanizer 8. Sabotage 9. Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath 10. Headless Cross 11. The Eternal Idol 12. Born Again 13. TYR 14. Cross Purposes 15. Seventh Star 16. “13” 17. The Devil You Know 18. Never Say Die 19. Technical Ecstacy 20. Forbidden Overall, cool ranking offered here! Everyone has their favorites! For me, Black Sabbath and Paranoid are definitive top 5 Albums! Yes, feel the Tony Martin Era was underrated! Cheers!

Really good ranking James! Since we're speaking of doom metal, are you known or a fan of Candlemass?

When I was in high school around Christmas 1985, my friend & I went to Geezer's house to get my "Sabotage" vinyl signed. He wasn't home but the neighbors all said how nice he was & he had Santa Claus in the yard!!! Not very satanic! lol

Your list would be very similar to mine. My favourite album is heaven and hell, then sabbath bloody sabbath and mob rules. I really like headless cross and dehumaniser a lot

Agreed with your takes about the disappointing 13 album. It was so exciting to finally get something new with Ozzy but also sad that Bill wasn't on the album. In hindsight it was probably a mistake to work with Rick Rubin who pigeonholed the band and gelded Iommi's usual magnificent monolithic guitar tone. Drums sounded flat but Geezer's bass was nicely apparent in the mix. Oh well, it was the band's first number one album...meh... Thanks for all of your great opinions on the Sabbath catalog!

Rhino did another pressing of Dehumanizer deluxe vinyl recently. Should be able to pick it up fairly cheaply

Great video! To me the original Black Sabbath of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward will always be the best Black Sabbath! loved all their albums from their debut album in 1970 through to Technical Ecstasy in 1976, not keen on anything that followed. Volume 4 is probably my favourite Black Sabbath album.

I appreciate your review. Maybe it's just a coincidence but doesn't the person on the Vol 4 album cover look like Ronnie James Dio? 😳

"It's Alright" rules

20. Eternal Idol 19. Forbidden 18. The Headless Cross 17. Tyr 16. Seventh Star 15. Cross Purposes 14. Never Say Die 13. 13 12. Technical Ecstacy 11. The Devil You Know 10. Black Sabbath 9. Dehumanizer 8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 7. Volume Four 6. Born Again 5. Sabotage 4. Paranoid 3. Master of Reality 2. Heaven and Hell 1. Mob Rules

Technical Ecstasy should DEFINITELY be ranked higher!! Very good and UNDERRATED ALBUM! Also, Never Say Die is a WAYYY better record than most people give it credit for!!

Best Sabbath album - Sabotage

My fav song is definitely "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"

My mums mates Husband Played on the Headless cross . Laurence has played with loads of people including van Morrison , Eric Clapton , and the Allan parsons project . Phenomenal bassist and very nice bloke . If you watch the Headless cross video carefully , Laurence is at the back in the corner as he was the only bloke with short hair in the band at the time haha

Born Again is awesome, front cover, back side, and the dark songs on it. Ice T and Ernie C make Forbidden worth owning. The Ozzy and Dio albums are all must have for all metal fans.

1. Paranoid 2. Heaven & Hell 3. Master of Reality 4. The Headless Cross 5. Sabbath bloody Sabbath 6. The Mob Rules 7. The Eternal Idol 8. Tyr 9. Dehumaniser 10. The Devil you know 11. Cross Purposes 12. Volume 4 13. Sabotage 14. Black Sabbath 15. Born Again 16. Seventh Star 17. Never Say Die 18. Technical Ecstacy 19. 13 20. Forbidden

1. Sabotage 2. Master of reality 3. Paranoid 4. Mob rules 5. Sabbath bloody sabbath 6. Heaven and hell 7. Technical ecstacy 8. Vol 4 9. Never say die 10. Dehumanizer 11. Eternal idol 12. Headless cross 13. Tyr 14. Forbidden remix 15. Cross purposes 16. Born again desperate need of a remix as it sounds terrible. Do love the cannibal corpse zero the hero cover. Seventh star

Tony iomni plans to release a remix of the born again album

I met Ozzy once in 1986

For me my top 3 is Heaven and hell , Headless Cross and Paranoid

1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) 2. Sabotage (1975) 3. Paranoid (1970) 4. Vol. 2 (1972) 5. Heaven and Hell (1980) 6. Master of Reality (1971) 7. Black Sabbath (1970) 8. Mob Rules (1981) 9. Headless Cross (1989) 10. Dehumanizer (1992) 11. Cross Purposes (1994) 12. Tyr (1990) 13. The Eternal Idol (1987) 14. Never Say Die! (1979) 15. Technical Ecstasy (1976) 16. Forbidden (1995) *the new remix from Iommi kinda save this album! 17. 13 (2013) 18. Born Again (1983) 19. Seventh Star (1986)

Top 5: Sabotage, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Never Say Die, Heaven and Hell, Vol.4.

That's why i haven't listened to the radio since 1999 because of overplay