Legacy
The album has been credited for pioneering heavy metal, stoner rock, doom metal, and goth. In 1989, Kerrang! magazine listed the album at No. 31 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". In 2003, the album was ranked number 241 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)