Dehumanizer and the much later The Devil You Know (under the guise of Heaven and Hell) gives us all a glimpse of that possibility. Explosive and Exciting...And downright delicious!
And one final word, Ronnie James Dio a fine gentleman who was never ashamed to use the term "Heavy Metal".
Playlist for Permanent Purgatory
Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
Kuroi Machi - GENOCIDE nippon
Metropolis - Motörhead
Suspender Love - Scorpions
Unchain Your Brain - Gillan
11 comments:
I agree this is indeed a fine album, I was disappointed in it when I first got it and after a few listens it was relegated to the bottom of the Sabbath pile. Last year though I gave it another try and it is a great album. Not a classic but still very listenable indeed.
Of course if another band had produced this it would be hailed throughout the rock world ;D
You are as eloquent as you are a connoisseur.
I haven't listened to this album - I think I'll have to look out for it and give it a listen after reading this.
P.S. Hawkwind are playing Cheltenham's Wychwood Festival this year, so we've brought our tickets and will be treating Monkeychild not only to her first festival, but to her first Hawkwind gig too. Start the blighters young I say....
Toast - not a classic but a good solid album, full of goodies.
Steve - I thank you kind sir!
VK - fantastic start for the wee one's festival inauguration - the Hawkwind! Hope the whole family enjoys the festival, hope you'll give a report back on the blog!
@Jimmy: I agree that it's a solid album in terms of the music. But the album cover art? What were they thinking? It is dreadful, even surpassing 'Born Again' in its ugliness.
That by a band that had album art like Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Heaven And Hell. It makes me wonder ...
It took me years to figure out that this was actually an official and thus 'real' Black Sabbath album not some tribute band thing or whatever.
Anyway, are you aware that that particular Black Sabbath lineup also recorded some material under the bandname Heaven And Hell?
The album is called 'The Devil You Know' and was released in 2009. I consider it a totally brillant album containing one of my all time Dio favourites 'Atom And Evil'.
If you haven't already, you should give it a listen.
Wow, until I saw your review LJ I had (sadly) all but forgotten about this album. Dehumanizer was very underrated. I beg to differ with you and Toast, this is a very good offering. And in my humble opinion, may even rank up among the classics such as Black Sabbath, Paranoid, and Master of Reality. Dio's vocals are among the best he's ever done and Tony Iommi showcases why he is considered a riff-master! Geezer Butler's razor bass and Vinny Appice's precise yet foreboding beats are top notch. Let's not forget gentlemen, Sabbath pioneered metal and Dehumanizer delivers - the album is incredibly heavy. And on the whole it lives up to it's title, allowing ones mind to imagine a dystopian future with tunes like Computer God, TV Crimes, and Master of Insanity. Cheers \m/ Enjoy the weekend
Ace
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I think it is a terrific album just not as brilliant as Heaven and Hell and my favourite Dio era Sabbath album Mob Rules!!! \m/
Frank That is one bad album cover - totally agree!
If it had adorned the LP of a NWOBHM band back in 79 then I would've loved it, accepted because of the constraint of money and facilities BUT for the Sabs to use it after the higher quality of the other albums previously (with the exception of Sabotage perhaps!).
I did indeed, and I was lucky enough to see Heaven and Hell play in Glasgow when they toured. I think Ronnie James Dio remains a real Heavy Metal Hero for me
Ace How are you brother?
I do like the album a lot, and perhaps it is wrong of me to compare it to the polished Heaven and Hell release and brutaly brilliant Mob Rules. In fact what wonders might have been realised if the reformed Appice/Butler/Dio/Iommmi line up might have produced had they made a follow up to Dehumanizer, indeed the tremendous Heaven + Hell line up hinted at the wealth of material that was there for expanding. Alas, Ronnie was cruelly taken from the world before that could've been achieved.
Toast Agreed on Mob Rules old chum
The cover left me unmoved but was better than the worst album cover of all time, Paranoid...and let's not forget the travesty that was the cover of Master of Reality, although I have grown to quite like it.
Toast - I'd forgotten about the Paranoid cover!
Awful, should've had a pic of Nib in red tights, oh hold on that was Sabotage ;)
Crazy!
Master of Reality wasn't bad it was groovy I'd call it.
Ozzy wanted a few inverted crosses and a pic of some bint being sacrificed in a graveyard but I said NO! We could be accused of being Satanic! Good old NIB, he still has those tights, he should ebay them in my opinion! Hail Stan 656!!!
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