While never plumbing the depths of Headless Cross the album fails to inspire. Ian Gillan, the heavy blues rock legend joined forces with heavy rock legends Black Sabbath: gottaīe a winner? Either that or a crock of legendary proportions. Posted Monday, Octo| Review this album | Report (Review #146327) For Black Sabbath fans, this is not a good recording even though the Ian Gillan on vocals and Geoff Nicholls on Keyboards. The original line-up Tony Iommi (Lead Guitar & Flute), Geezer Butler (Bass) and Bill Ward (drums) appeared in this album with Gillan remained with Black Sabbath until March 1984, when he joined a Deep Purple reunionĪnd was replaced by singer Dave Donato, who was in the band until October without being featured on any of its recordings. Nov 25,ġ946) substituting for Ward, who would return to the band in the spring of 1984. Black Sabbath hit the road prior to the album's release, with drummer Bev Bevan (b. Since then Black Sabbath had no vocal, so Iommi approached Ian Gillan of Deep Purple.ĭrummer Bill Ward to return. Iommi and Dio clashed over the mixing of "Live Evil", and by the time Live Evil appeared in January 1983, Dio had left Black Posted Saturday, Octo| Review this album | Report (Review #144367) This one will peak at the fourth position in the UK charts ! This "Sabbath" album is their best selling album for a decade. The strategy of hiring Gillan will be commercially successful though. There ! Fortunately for "Purple" fans, Gillan will get back on board of the "Purple" ship very shortly after this. Just imagine how bad the promotional tour sounded like ! They even incorporated "Smoke On The Water" in If he weren't there, this band would have already liquified a long Iommi again will be the highlight on "Hot Line" and "Keep It Warm". A slow-rock song with a good Gillan on the vocal command. The title track is also a bit more appealing. There will be some more "Purple" influence of course like during "Digital Bitch" but weĪre far from a great song. Solo of course like during "Zero The Hero" but really nothing from the other world.Ī uniform and boring mood all the way through. EIommi will be the only one to be able to do anything to raise the level of this "work". Extremely heavy for most of it, lots of Gillan shouts (as if Instrumental "Stonehenge" (but this is a habbit for "Sabbath" to release such a song on each album).Īctually, one would almost missed it while listening to the rest of the album. What else do we need ? Probably not the short and peaceful (?) One of the two best songs of this release. Not of "Trashed", the opener which again renews with the very good "Sabbath" opening songs : great beat, great guitar work and No, the problem is, again, the quality of the songs. The day hard-rock has crossed heavy metal and vice-versa very often. Not that this is not conceivable : at the end of "Purple" reunion, Ian Gillan will record an album with "Sabbath". Posted Friday, Octo| Review this album | Report (Review #143919)Ī year before the. That may or may not be the case but on this album they left a vibe that makes me feel that way. I like the dirty raw sound, the darkness, the energy-I sense a feeling of guys who know they're getting old and are grasping at youth. Iomni has some seriously crushing, tasty riffs throughout.ĭespite some problem in execution "Born Again" is one of the Sabs I return to most often in my middle age days. What some see as hopelessly disjointed can sound to others like a refreshingly loose approach. That the band really sounds like they were unified in vision and taking their time, the rest of the album sounds like they wrote itįriday night, partied on Saturday, and recorded it on Sunday morning. Title track "Born Again" is the highlight, a brooding and mysterious piece that I can still enjoy. "Trashed" is a rip-roaringĪlmost punkish opener that along with the thunderous rock of "Disturbing the Priest" constitute a reasonably nasty good An amateur mistake for a veteran band and not a good sign on the surface. The mix was awful and I remember reading that the wrong sub-par mix was accidentally used in the He always sounded a little like a fish out of water with Sabbath and yet this oft-abused release turns out to be one of their darkest and heaviest outings period. Well this is the Ian Gillan/Deep Purple Sabbath album.
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