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To me it looks like Universal and UMC have been
hit by the credit crunch and are not raking in all
the money they had hoped to in 2009, as so far they
have re-released so many classic albums, they have
also released a Black Sabbath ‘Greatest Hits’
and now they are slowly going through the whole
Black Sabbath back catalogue and re-releasing each
album one by one in a special re-mastered format
which features a bonus disc with previous unreleased
bonus tracks and different versions of songs that
you may and not have heard before.
The first of the new re-released Black Sabbath
album’s is their debut self titled album
which was originally released back on Friday 13th
February 1970 and it was known as one of the first
heavy metal albums and helped to create the genre
that we all love now, seriously if it wasn’t
for Black Sabbath we wouldn’t be listening
to half of the bands we listen to know.
‘Black Sabbath’ is a classic album
from start to finish, it only features 7 tracks
which in this day and age would be classed as
an EP or mini album but back in 70’s that
was classed as a work of art. The album starts
with the self titled track and it is one hell
of a dark spooky tune, the song is played at a
really slow tempo with really chilled out guitar
riffs coming and going whilst Oozy’s vocals
sound as strong as they do to this day but are
much darker and come across at a slower pace,
the last minute of the track everything picks
up with a massive guitar solo from Tony Iommi
taking centre stage and rocking out to the very
last seconds of the track.
Ozzy Osbourne opens up ‘The Wizard’
playing on the harmonica and he plays it with
style and passion, seconds later Tony Iommi comes
in with his rip roaring guitar riffs and he has
a battle with Ozzy as they both play their instruments
with passion, ‘The Wizard’ is a song
that was written about Gandalf from The Lord Of
The Rings.
There are so many good moments on the debut Black
Sabbath album, songs like ‘N.IB’ will
have you dancing along as it has so much groove,
‘Evil Woman (Don’t Play Your Games)’
will leave you doing your best air guitar impression,
whilst ‘Warning’ will take your breath
away with its 10 minutes of progressive rock.
The bonus disc included on the album is a good
idea, but in all reality will only be something
that the hardcore Black Sabbath fans will find
interesting, the demos and various unreleased
songs are in no interest of me and I am sure many
others feel the same.
Overall I feel everyone should own a copy of
‘Black Sabbath’ as it is a classic
piece of rock history and it is a really strong,
dark and spooky progressive album which helped
open the paths to some of the best rock and roll
bands the world has ever seen.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Ozzy Osbourne
Tony Iommi
Geezer Butler
Bill Ward |
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Disc 1
1. Black Sabbath
2. The Wizard
3. Behind The Wall Of Sleep
4. N.I.B.
5. Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games With Me
6. Sleeping Village
7. Warning
Disc 2
1. Wicked World
2. Black Sabbath (Minus Rain And With Alternative
Lyrics)
3. Black Sabbath (Instrumental)
4. The Wizard With Jocular Banter
5. Behind The Wall Of Sleep (With "Dry"
Vocal)
6. N.I.B. (Alternative Mix)
7. Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games With Me (With
Horns & Flute)
8. Sleeping Village (Alternative Mix)
9. Warning (Part 1) |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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