Album Cover
The album cover shows a group of beings that each represent specific Black Sabbath songs. They are:
- a screaming man in a straitjacket ("Paranoid")
- a voodoo shaman ("Voodoo")
- an angel and a devil ("Heaven and Hell")
- a knight with a sword emitting an eerie glow ("Neon Knights")
- a hooded man ("Black Sabbath")
- a goat head, hidden in the sand directly under the War Pig ("N.I.B.")
- a metallic-skinned man flexing his muscles ("Iron Man")
- a pig dressed as a sergeant ("War Pigs")
- a group of children inside a casket ("Children of the Grave") floating on the water ("Children of the Sea")
- a man with a whip ("The Mob Rules")
- lightning in the shape of a devil's head ("E5150")
- (On the back of the sleeve) an acoustic guitar washed up on the shore ("Fluff")
- (On the back of the sleeve) the Southern Cross in the sky ("The Sign of the Southern Cross")
The album cover art was created by Stan Watts.
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