Black Sabbath Tribute - Hand Of Doom

Black Sabbath; the original heavy metal album.

Advantages: Just a great revolutionary album.
Disadvantages: There aren't any proper ones.

This is pretty much the original heavy metal album. I don't think any heavy metal fan exists without this in their collection, and if they do then they need a slap really. 1 - Black Sabbath: We begin in a rainy graveyard type place... This sets the scene of what's to come. Unexpectedly (but very fittingly) the first riff is very very slow, but probably the heaviest thing ever heard at the time it was released. We hear Ozzy's voice slow and chillingly start to narrate a story. This goes on for some time and get's us set up for the album. Half way through the song there is a sudden tempo change and things start to kick off for the rest of the album. As a first Sabbath song ever, this is an absolutely essential song and because of that it cannot receive less than 10/10. 2 - The Wizard: Another absolute classic. A bit faster than the last ...

Tsportmat 24.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Putting the "Black" back in Black Sabbath

Advantages: Classic Metal
Disadvantages: not one for the Ozzy fans

By the end of the seventies, Black Sabbath had seem to have run their course, the albums were not selling so well, critical acclaim for their work was a thing of the past and frontman Ozzy Osbourne had quit the band. How do you come back from the brink under those circumstances. Against all the odds Balck Sabbath managed to pull off the ultimate coup, they recruited new frontman Ronnie James Dio and returned with what was widely hailed as their best album for almost a decade with 1980s Heaven and Hell. Dio had come to prominence with country rock and blues outfit Elf, but it was as the frontman of Richie Blackmores Rainbow that he really perfected the style and voice that was to become his trademark. After a string of classic rock albums with Rainbow his placed was taken by the more commercial Graham Bonnett and Dio found himself ...

steerpyke 06.12.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Heaven And Hell - Black Sabbath

Deep Sabbath or Black Purple...?

Advantages: Rock supremo singing + best band EVER
Disadvantages: Erm, where to begin...

with Photoshop, or perhaps on a second look, merely Paint! The glowing eyes and fangs make me chucklu rather than shocked! ****** Cost ****** On Amazon for £8.99, sure you can get a better deal somewhere! ************* Conclusion ************* Right, this is a difficult one. If I ignore the fact that this is Sabbath and Gillan and take it as just any old album then it's actually quite good, but if you're a fan of either the initial Ozzy phase, or the first Dio era, then it's certainly different, this is largely down to Gillan who's vocal ability is so very different. The photos I'm attaching also show a difference in ideas...no black leather for Mr. Gillan! The album also has more tracks of a light hearted nature compared to previous Sabbath albums, nothing really about drugs (a common factor for Sabbath: Hand of Doom, Sweet Leaf ...

snowblind_supernaut 04.09.2006 · Read full review
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