<P> Drew Struzan (who would later create the iconic cover to Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare LP) was the artist requested to do the cover painting, under the direction of Pacific Eye & Ear's Ernie Cefalu . The idea behind the artwork was to depict a man dying a horrible death on the front cover, and on the back cover the same man dying a "good" death . It depicts a man on a bed, seemingly having a nightmare or a vision of being attacked by demons in human form . At the top of the bed is a large skull with long, outstretched arms and 666 (the Number of the Beast) written below it . The other side of the album features the opposite of the front cover, as shown here . Inside the gatefold sleeve there is a photo of the band members shown over a photo of a bedroom . In his autobiography Osbourne enthuses, "I fucking loved that cover ." The Sabbath Bloody Sabbath artwork continued the Sabbath tradition of offering provocative covers; in a 1992 Guitar World interview Metallica singer and guitarist James Hetfield recalled, "I discovered Black Sabbath by digging through my older brother's record collection . Their album covers really drew me in . I immediately thought,' I gotta put this on .' And when I did, I couldn't believe it . It was like,' Whoa! Heavy as shit .' Sabbath was everything that the Sixties weren't . Their music was so cool because it was completely anti-hippie . I hated the Beatles, Jethro Tull, Love and all that other happy shit ." </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Professional ratings </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Review scores </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Source </Th> <Th> Rating </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> AllMusic </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Rolling Stone </Td> <Td> favourable </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> The Rolling Stone Album Guide </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Professional ratings </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Review scores </Th> </Tr>

Dreams turn to nightmares heaven turns to hell