Black Sabbath - Born Again
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Artist: Black SabbathEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-12-22
Music Label: Sanctuary UK
Soundtracks:
- Trashed
- Stonehenge
- Disturbing the Priest
- The Dark
- Zero the Hero
- Digital Bitch
- Born Again
- Hot Line
- Keep It Warm
Free Music Notes for Born Again
Free Music Review: One of Black Sabbath's best albums featuring the great Ian Gillan of Deep Purple
Hit: 5 Stars
Black Sabbath's 12th official album Born Again was released in September of 1983.
The album was the first album since vocalist Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice left to form Dio whilst mixing the 1982 double live album Live Evil.
After the departures of Dio and Appice, original members guitarist Tony Iommi and bass player Geezer Butler got back temporarily drummer Bill Ward and got Deep Purple veteran Ian Gillan to record an album which has been both cheered and jeered by Sabbath fans and/or critics. Was the album a masterwork or was it garbage, read on and find out(as I did when I first bought the album on cassette(Warner Bros issue) in June of 1994 at the behest of my best friend Dennis' father(who liked both Sabbath and Purple) and subsequently on remastered CD).
We open the album strongly with the thundering first single Trashed which sounds somewhat of a cross between Neon Knights and Paranoid with Ian's classic scream at the beginning and end of the track. Ian's voice singing, howling and screaming all works well on this track and Iommi's solos just kick ass here. We follow with the first of two eerie instrumentals called Stonehenge which acts as an intro to the sinister, off-beat, mid-tempo Disturbing the Priest. Butler's pounding bass and Iommi's riffs blend with Nicholls' dark synthesizers superbly and Ian's voice goes from singing to screaming and his sinister laughing. With its obvious religious theme, Disturbing the Priest is probably the most typical Sabbath-like song on the album lyrically speaking and how high Gillan can scream is amazing, especially his evil laugh at the end of the track. The Dark follows and is another instrumental interlude which segues into the Sabbath classic Zero the Hero, which was a classic Iommi riff which was inadvertently borrowed by Guns N' Roses for Paradise City and this track was one of two tracks where Ian did not scream and Iommi's solo on this track is haunting.
The almost-anthem-like Digital B**ch kicks the second half off and picks up the pace that was on Trashed and was a great rocker and Iommi's solos on this track and Gillan's vocals just were amazing. The epic title track track to Born Again is next and is a dark and harrowing number featuring Iommi at his bluesiest on the track and Ian's vocal range goes from low to high back down and has some screaming. We then rock out again with Hot Line which reminds some of Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water and is a great rocker. Iommi's playing and especially solos on this track rock and Ian sings and screams throughout the song. The melodic, hard-rocking Keep it Warm closes the album on a slowish note but a great song. Ian doesn't scream here and Iommi as always served up a tasty solo on this track.
Born Again hit #4 on the UK album chart and cracked the US Top 40 and did fairly reasonable though critics panned the album. This album is a must and was Sabbath's last real album until 1992's Dehumanizer.
Recommended!
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1996 reissue on Castle featuring their top 40 1983 studio album remastered from the original master tapes and with faithfully restored artwork. First released on Warner Brothers, it contains all nine original tracks, including 'Zero The Hero', 'Stonehenge', 'Disturbing The Priest' and'Digital Bitch'. Essential. 2001.Classic Rock Music CDs
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