Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules
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Artist: Black SabbathEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Turn Up The Night
- Voodoo
- The Sign Of The Southern Cross
- E5150
- The Mob Rules
- Country Girl
- Slipping Away
- Falling Off The Edge Of The World
- Over And Over
Free Music Notes for The Mob Rules
Free Music Review: Another great Sabbath album that picks up where Heaven and Hell left off
Hit: 5 Stars
Black Sabbath's tenth album Mob Rules was released in late October of 1981 (in time for Christmas shopping here in the US).
Many fans of Black Sabbath must have thought that Ozzy Osbourne's firing from the band would have ruined Black Sabbath but the acquisition of Ronnie James Dio was equipped with a great singer who gave Sabbath its heaviest album in years with 1980s Heaven and Hell.
After the success of Heaven and Hell, drummer Bill Ward left the band due to drug, alcohol and family problems leaving bass player Geezer Butler and guitarist Tony Iommi as the only two original Sabbath members left. Bill Ward was replaced by new drummer Vinnie Appice (younger brother of the legendary Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, Beck Bogart and Appice, Rod Stewart and Cactus fame) and by default Sabbath was now an Anglo-American band (Dio and Appice being from the States while Iommi and Butler are Brits).
Returning, aside Dio, was producer Martin Birch and the band recorded its second effort with Dio. Is Mob Rules as good as its predecessor, read on and find out (as I did back in December of 1993 when I got the cassette and subsequently CD).
We open with the killer rocker "Turn Up The Night" which is an awesome rocker although some whine it is an inferior Neon Knights remake, I say no way! We follow with another excellent rocker present is "Voodoo", on which Iommi shells out some damn fine riffs. Next is the nearly EIGHT minute masterpiece, which is also this album's best track, "The Sign Of The Southern Cross". The track starts out acoustic before we rock out and Dio's lyrics are stellar. We segue into the instrumental "E5150" which was written for the movie Heavy Metal (released earlier that July) and is a great sort of intro to the first half of the album's closer which is the awesome title track. It's one of its best tracks of all of the album's nine tracks, in fact The Mob Rules' title cut was recorded for the movie Heavy Metal in July of 1981.
Mob Rules' second half starts with the rocker "Country Girl" which rocks. Dio's vocals are excellent and Iommi's riff and solos rock as well. Next is the rocker "Slipping Away" which has a superb Dio vocal plus messieurs Appice, Iommi and Butler each get to solo on the song's middle section. Next is another classic "Falling Off the Edge of the World" which is one of Sabbath's best songs ever! The opening to this song is incredible which is slow and lumbering and before long we speed things fast into a killer rocker. Dio's vocal performance is one of his best and his lyrics are among the best ever. The closing "Over and Over" is another classic. It's a slow dark doomy number with unbelievable vocals by Dio. Iommi's riff and solos are top notch as well.
The Mob Rules album was yet another US Top 30 album for the band and also achieving Gold status and is just as good if not better than Heaven and Hell.
Recommended!
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