Black Sabbath

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

They are back with a new album, that is streaming on iTunes (and is up on torrent sites, shh!)

Anyway, anybody else listen to it yet?

Big edit, listened to it again, and finally get it. This is Ozzy's Sabbath for the 21st Century. Sounds like they picked up right where they left off. Loner is an amazing rocker, and this is a worthy 9th album of Ozzy-era Sabbath.

I had my doubts that they could pull it off, but this is a great album. So soon after Dio's last Sabbath album, 2009's "The Devil You Know", this is great to have two awesome Sabbath albums in 4 years.

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

Damn, this is one of the best rock albums I have ever heard.

 

[Naleena]

Do you have a favorite song off it? I love Ozzy..he's awesome. So who is the guitar player now?

 

[ajdass1]

He's back with the (almost) original Sabbath lineup. They have a new drummer though cus apparently Ward was being too probbo

 

[Skid Row 89]

Only listened to God is dead? so far

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

Naleena, I have everything Ozzy and Sabbath has ever touched. I own the entire Sabbath discography, even the weak albums from the late 80's and 90's.

Never seen them or Ozzy live, though, but I love those guys to death. My favorite period of the band is from 1970-1981. My favorite album is Master Of Reality.

It is the original lineup, minus Bill Ward, who was part of the writing process for the album, but couldn't play on the album due to a dispute with the record company. Stupid record companies.

The drummer from Rage Against The Machine is the current drummer. He will be touring with them as well.

 

[Case]

Only heard "God Is Dead?" and loved it. I've been seeing some YouTube clips of shows since they've played a bunch of dates in Australia already. Haven't heard the rest of the album though.

 

[Bones]

Black Sabbath favorite song = N.I.B (probably due to playing the bass guitar before learning to play the drums in my teenage years - I also, played trumpet too).

Ozzy Osbourne favorite song = Over the Mountain.

(My bass guitar, drums, and trumpet has - more or less - collected dust for the past 20 years or so up in the attic. In college, it was a huge benefit to be versatile, play in pick up bands during parties, and having roommates who played too - the reason why I learned to play the drums was because one roommate could only play lead guitar for some reason, the other one played either rhythm or bass guitar, and it left me to play drums - i bought a Rogers drum set with "hydraulic" heads with my school grant money and starved almost to death for the rest of the semester - lol.)

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

That's awesome, Bones. I can't play the bass or drums very well, but I play lead and rhythm guitars and keyboards pretty good.

The new album is missing Bill Ward. The new drummer just doesn't cut it very well...the songs are classic, though, so it stands up with even bad drumming. I'd like to go see them live, but I'm hesitant for the same reason I miss Bill Ward.

I think there was a period of time when Sabbath sucked, but this isn't it.

 

[Bones]

LITM - thanks for the additional information - I was not "formally" good - I was good at playing by ear, watching the rhythm guitarist, & intuitive enough to know what to do next - in other words, my level was at pick up bands that sounded good enough to have an audience and not get things thrown at you - lol.

 

[Blush]

Finally got around to checking the new album out. I'm really digging it so far, but I need a few more listens. Methademic and Pariah are just so good it hurts. I'm contemplating on seeing them next month.