Reception
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| Allmusic | |
| Drowned in Sound | 8/10 |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Sputnikmusic | 5.0/5 |
The album was successful, becoming their highest-charting album (#9 UK, #28 USA) since 1975's Sabotage and the third highest-selling album of Black Sabbath behind Paranoid and Master of Reality, respectively.
In the U.K., it became the third Black Sabbath studio album to attain Silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in November 1980. It subsequently attained Gold certification (100,000 units sold) in April 1982, the only Black Sabbath studio album to be thus certified.
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“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
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