Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

Just scored, what seems to be, a UK 1st press vinyl with 2nd press gatefold cover (“Copyright subsists in all Vertigo recordings…” and swirl'' Vertigo label with big logo with no 'A PHILIPS RECORD PRODUCT' text under.

Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped, variant 4): V0 6 1Y * 1 420 12 7
Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped, variant 4): V0 6 2Y * 1 420 12 7

Anyone else with this transition mix of 1st pressing matrix and 2nd vinyl logo/gatefold edition?

I just received this a few days ago. My copy (bought on Ebay) was over-graded and is nosier than what I usually tolerate as well as a little frequency distortion at some of the higher frequencies (I think this is for my copy) but damn this record sounds amazing! I have a RHF, Greenie Pittman and Aussie Fontana - all three sound excellent are some of my best sounding records, but this 1st UK swirl has better low end grunt (more power) and the midrange is insane. Tony is in my living room. The highs can get a bit too much at loud volume on my system sometimes but that is my only complaint - and is a mild one (slightly bright). This is my go-to copy now even though I still enjoy the others.

My copy has surface noise and the cover has some marks- it’s in excess of 50 years old and I am blasting it out loudly life is surface noise 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Black Sabbath, the first real heavy metal band. Geezer Butler's love of horror combined with Ozzy's fittingly imperfect singing voice makes this the Black Sabbath Album. I can see no Album more befitting of the title of the original heavy metal.

I own a version on yellow vinyl, with simple black and white swirl labels stating "Side A" / "Side B", without song titles and a non-gatefold, slightly out of focus sleeve with a pink "Vertigo" logo in the upper right corner on the front. No spine text. Black shiny inner sleeve with the cross and poem on one and the band name on the other side. On the back ist says "VO 6 / 847 903 VTY". Looks shonky. Does anyone know about this? Can't find it mentioned anywhere.

My Black Sabbath CD # is 6006 made in Holland issued on Creative Sounds LTD

I've got an olive label misprint variation that doesn't match anything on here. Reads "All selections written by Tony Ioomi - ...."
Runout is ST1 93419 W1 #1 0
ST2 93419 W1 #2 0

Tony "Ioomi" misprint is on both sides of label

In my opinion the definitive pressings of this album are green label WB pressings from 1970. These are arguably the best sounding and even if UK vertigo sounds better, the US press has Wicker World, the infinitely superior track if you ask me. I have a 1985 German NEMS press that sounds fantastic and I got cheap, but I almost never play it cause of Evil Woman.

if anyone can help, please dont hesitate!
i have a US pressing of the LP on Warner Brothers that i cant find listed here.
its a pre-1980s sleeve with no barcode. the labels are the "Burbank" / palm tree version, and the B side has the correct credits for "Warning".
ok, theres many with the labels like this, but the matrix etchings do not match anything entered here. they are as follows-
side A= SIDE 1 WS1871(39728-1)#1 [hand etched] O [machine stamped]
side B= SIDE 2 WS1871(39729-1)#1 [hand etched] O [machine stamped]

what has me confused is that the machine stamped "O" would indicate a Winchester pressing and the pressing rings match any other record i have from the Capitol Records plant in Winchester,, but nowhere is there any evidence of the —◁ etching in the dead-wax/matrix area that is on every other Winchester pressing i have ever seen or owned. and i cant find any other US pressing entered that has any notes of hand-written matrix etchings with "SIDE 1" or "SIDE 2" included. the labels match many of the other mid-70s US pressings listed here though. and if it matters, i bought this used in the mid-1980s at a shop in my home area of Cleveland Ohio.

anyone who might be able to identify this pressing; or possibly have a similar copy, please let me know. Thank You!!

I have a copy with one side of the album is Black Sabbath but the other side of the album is from Paranoid. Haven’t seen or heard of any others like it. Has anyone seen this before ?