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The band's heavy side remains intact on the likes of 'Tomorrow's Dream', 'Cornucopia' and the seismic 'Supernaut' (a firm favorite of Frank Zappa, featuring Bill Ward's soul-inspired breakdown), but the guitar intro on 'St. Despite their spiraling addictions, musically Vol. In June 2013 Mojo declared, 'If booze and dope had helped fuel Sabbath's earlier albums, Vol. 4 saw Black Sabbath beginning to experiment with the heavy sound they had become known for. I didn't realize how nuts things had gotten until I went home and the girl I was with didn't recognize me.' 'By the time the credits rolled,' Osbourne recalled, 'I was hyperventilating.' In 2013, Butler admitted to Mojo magazine that heroin, too, had entered the picture: 'We sniffed it, we never shot up . Osbourne also recounts the band's ongoing anxiety over the possibility of being busted, which worsened after they went to the cinema to see The French Connection (1971), about undercover New York City cops busting an international heroin-smuggling ring. According to Butler, 'we wanted to take a break' at that point. During soundcheck earlier that same day, a crazed Christian man attempted to storm the stage and stab Iommi with a dagger, but he was tackled by members of the band's crew. He walked off the stage and collapsed,' said Osbourne. We all had, but Tony had gone over the edge. 'Tony had been doing coke literally for days.

4 at the Hollywood Bowl, the cocaine abuse caught up to Iommi. One sniff, and you were king of the universe.' During a show in support of Vol. that coke was the whitest, purest, strongest stuff you could ever imagine. In his autobiography I Am Ozzy, Osbourne speaks at length about the sessions: 'In spite of all the arsing around, musically those few weeks in Bel Air were the strongest we'd ever been.' But he admits, 'Eventually we started to wonder where the fuck all the coke was coming from . The Bel Air mansion the band was renting belonged to John du Pont and the band found several spray cans of gold DuPont paint in a room of the house finding Ward naked and unconscious after drinking heavily, they proceeded to cover the drummer in gold paint from head to toe.

Now, his self-control was clearly slipping.' Iommi claims in his autobiography that Ward almost died after a prank-gone-wrong during recording. Retrospectively, that might have been a danger sign. It was like 'Well, just go home, you're not being of any use right now.' I felt like I'd blown it, I was about to get fired.' According to the book How Black Was Our Sabbath, Ward 'was always a drinker, but rarely appeared drunk. I nailed it in the end, but the reaction I got was the cold shoulder from everybody. Struggling to record 'Cornucopia' after 'sitting in the middle of the room, just doing drugs', drummer Bill Ward feared that he was about to be fired: 'I hated the song, there were some patterns that were just horrible.

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In the studio, the band regularly had speaker boxes full of cocaine delivered. The recording was plagued with problems, many due to substance abuse. This time, we did it with Patrick (Meehan), our manager, and I think we're all very happy… It was great to work in an American studio.' Meehan had little actual involvement in the album's production but nonetheless insisted he be listed as producer, according to Iommi. 'Previously we had Rodger Bain as a producer – and, although he's very good, he didn't really feel what the band was doing.

'It's the first album we've produced ourselves,' said vocalist Ozzy Osbourne in 1972. 4 is officially credited to Black Sabbath and Patrick Meehan, the bulk of the actual production was performed by guitarist Tony Iommi.