Black Sabbath to unleash 'Vol.4 Super Deluxe Edition' boxset

Featuring 20 unreleased studio and live recordings

Black Sabbath in 1973
Author: Scott ColothanPublished 2nd Dec 2020
Last updated 2nd Dec 2020

Black Sabbath’s fourth studio album ‘Vol.4’ is getting an expansive Super Deluxe Edition boxset release in early 2021.

Originally unleashed to the world in September 1972, ‘Vol.4’ boasts anthems including ‘Supernaut’, ‘Tomorrow’s Dream’, ‘Changes’ and ‘Snowblind’ and it was the first Black Sabbath album to be self-produced by the band after Rodger Bain helmed ‘Black Sabbath’, ‘Tomorrow’s Dream’, ‘Paranoid’ and ‘Master of Reality’. It was voted the sixth best Sabbath album of all time by our listeners in 2019.

Released on Friday 12th February 2021 on 4-CD and 5-LP (180-gram vinyl) boxset formats, ‘Vol.4 Super Deluxe Edition’ will feature a newly remastered version of the original album alongside a veritable smorgasbord of bonus material.

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Across the multiple discs there are 20 unreleased studio and live recordings and both editions are augmented with extensive booklets featuring liner notes with quotes from the era from Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward, rare photos, and a poster with previously unpublished early artwork of the album using the working title Snowblind.

As a taster for the album, the remastered version of ‘Tomorrow’s Dream’ can be listened to right here:

The second CD and LP on ‘Vol.4 Super Deluxe Edition’ features six previously unreleased studio outtakes from the original sessions for ‘Vol.4’ that have been newly mixed by Steven Wilson using the analog multi-tracks.

The third disc is entitled Alternative Takes, False Starts & Studio Dialogue and comprises of 11 additional studio recordings that give an insight into Black Sabbath’s recording process.

‘Vol.4 Super Deluxe Edition’ concludes with the live disc ‘Live In The UK 1973’, which collates various UK performances from the Vol. 4 Tour almost half a century ago.

Mixed by Richard Digby Smith, alongside ‘Vol.4’ tracks, other live songs that feature include Sabbath classics ‘War Pigs’, ‘Paranoid’ and ‘Children of the Grave’.

‘Vol.4 Super Deluxe Edition’ is available to pre-order from Black Sabbath’s official merch store now.

Black Sabbath ‘Vol.4 Super Deluxe Edition’ track-listing:

Disc One: Original Album Remastered:

Wheels Of Confusion / The Straightener

Tomorrow’s Dream

Changes

FX

Supernaut

Snowblind

Cornucopia

Laguna Sunrise

St. Vitus Dance

Under The Sun / Every Day Comes And Goes

Disc Two: Outtakes - New Mixes:

Wheels Of Confusion / The Straightener *

Changes *

Supernaut *

Snowblind *

Laguna Sunrise *

Under The Sun (Instrumental) *

Disc Three: Alternative Takes, False Starts & Studio Dialogue:

Wheels Of Confusion (False Start with Studio Dialogue) *

Wheels Of Confusion (Alternative Take 1) *

Wheels Of Confusion (Alternative Take 2) *

Wheels Of Confusion (Alternative Take 3) *

Wheels Of Confusion (Alternative Take 4) *

The Straightener (Outtake) *

Supernaut (Outtake) *

Supernaut (Alternative Takes with False Starts) *

Snowblind (Alternative Take 1 - Incomplete) *

Under The Sun (False Start with Studio Dialogue) *

Under The Sun (Alternative Take with Guide Vocal) *

Disc Four: Live In The UK 1973:

Tomorrow’s Dream*

Sweet Leaf*

War Pigs”

Snowblind*

Killing Yourself To Live

Cornucopia

Wicked World (Includes Excerpts of:)

i) Guitar Solo

ii) Orchid

iii) Into The Void

iv) Sometimes I’m Happy

Supernaut” / Drum Solo

Wicked World” (Reprise)

Embryo

Children Of The Grave

Paranoid

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