Black Sabbath - Tyr
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Artist: Black SabbathEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-08-20
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Anno Mundi (The Vision)
- The Law Maker
- Jerusalem
- The Sabbath Stones
- The Battle of TYR
- Odin's Court
- Valhalla
- Feels Good to Me
- Heaven in Black
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Free Music Review: Not a Sabbath Fan, But...
Hit: 5 Stars
Recently I bought both Eternal Idol and Dehumanizer. I've already sold Dehumanizer and have been looking for a way to get rid of Idol. I can't say they're bad albums. A lot of people like Eternal Idol, especially, so it's probably worth checking out. They both have awesome vocals throughout, no question about it, but even the great vocals didn't quite redeem the music for me. And both CDs have things that I don't like about Black Sabbath in general.
First I think that Iommi, over the years and in a lot of the band's catalogue, tends to rely on the main riff of a song way too much. You've got to have a great main riff, but you also need the song to stray from it sometimes, to have some time away from it to make the heart grow fonder (as they say!) for when you come back to it. And I could listen to his lead guitar work forever, I love it, but his rhythms can sound unnatural and kind of jerk around sometimes. I thought that both of these things came out enough to amount to pretty serious flaws in both albums I mentioned, which all came out in a five- or six-year period. The songs often seemed out of balance and both albums overall had a distinctly constipated sound.
Black Sabbath is a band I want to like because when they're good they're great. And everything comes together for me on TYR. The heavy metal guitar sound was rich and powerful, and the different parts of the music were more developed and much better integrated. Also the rhythms were appealing so I could completely enjoy the lead work that I love. And the individual songs just had a lot more balance and uniqueness from each other, and never sounded forced. It was a really pleasant surprise after those last two Sab CDs I tried, and I'm definitely keeping this. And these differences were so obvious that I noticed them even though I just got TYR today and have only listened to it once.
Also, it's more helpful to have someone tell you that even if you're not a fan, like I'm not a fan per se of Black Sabbath, that a certain CD is worth looking into. I find it meaningless when someone tells me that if I like a certain band that I have to get such and such an album of theirs. When I'm a fan, I have to get ALL of the band's albums, even ones that aren't that good. That's just what being a fan is all about, right? With that said, the CDs by Black Sabbath that I own and feel--as a non-fan--are definitely worth looking into are Paranoid, Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules and this one. And personally I'll probably stop here with my Black Sabbath collection.
Anyway, thanks for reading my tome review, and I hope it helped.
BTW - "TYR" is not an acronym. It's the name of the son of the god Odin, as explained on the back cover of the CD--just so you don't wonder!
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