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Black Sabbath Unveils 50th anniversary Reissue of Iconic “Paranoid” Album

Joan H — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 05:18:00 +0000

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic Paranoid album, Black Sabbath is releasing a special vinyl reissue.

The reissue will feature the original album on vinyl. It will also include the vinyl debut of the band’s concerts from 1970.

The five LPs will come with a hardbound book. This will feature interviews from all four of the band members in addition to rare photos, posters, and notes on the music.

The reissue arrives on October 9. You can view the entire track list below.

LP 1: Original Album
Side A
War Pigs / Luke’s Wall
Paranoid
Planet Caravan
Iron Man

Side B
Electric Funeral
Hand Of Doom
Rat Salad
Jack The Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots

LP 2: Quadradisc Mix in Stereo (WS4 1887) 1974
Side C
War Pigs / Luke’s Wall
Paranoid
Planet Caravan
Iron Man

Side D
Electric Funeral
Hand Of Doom
Rat Salad
Jack The Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots

LP 3: Live in Montreux 1970 (Part One)
Side E
“Intro”
“Paranoid”
“N.I.B.”
“Behind The Wall Of Sleep”

Side F
“Iron Man”
“War Pigs”

LP 4: Live in Montreux 1970 (Part Two)/Live in Brussels 1970 (Part One)
Side
Fairies Wear Boots
Hand Of Doom

Side H
Paranoid
Hand Of Doom
Rat Salad
Iron Man

LP 5: Live in Brussels 1970 (Part Two)

Side J
Black Sabbath
N.I.B.

Side K
Behind The Wall Of Sleep
War Pigs
Fairies Wear Boots

You can pre-order your reissue here.

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Brian May Discusses His Collaboration With Tony Iommi

Joan H — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 08:36:00 +0000

Queen guitarist Brian May has shared an update on his rumored collaboration with Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi.

May and Iommi have been friends for decades. The pair have jammed together on several occasions and supposedly, they have a whole collection of riffs waiting to be used.

In a recent interview with Guitar World, May was asked about the chances of fans hearing anything that May and Iommi have worked on together.

“I think there is a chance,” May replied. “We do more talking than anything else, but we do a lot of talking. [Iommi] is really my dearest friend in the business and has been for so many years.

“I could write books about Tony because he’s just the most [pauses]… I don’t even know how to put it into words. You know, he’s a luminous human being is Tony, with a wonderful, kind nature and an incredibly baffling sense of humor.”

He added: “And, of course, he is the father of heavy metal. He did that. He made that happen. And it’s from his fingers and his mind.”

If May and Iommi collaborate on an album, it may just blow our minds. Hopefully, we will have the opportunity to hear snippets of what the pair have been working on in the future.

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The Woman from Black Sabbath’s Iconic Cover Revealed

Or B — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:24:00 +0000

Metal music would not be what it is today without Black Sabbath’s music. Some of their influence was evident from the beginning with the iconic cover of their 1970 self-titled debut album. The cover showed a cloaked woman standing against a wooden setting and had set the tone of the genre’s aesthetics – dark and gothic. Now, the mysterious woman depicted on the cover is being revealed.

The artist behind the cover, Keith, “Keef” Macmillan broke years of silence on the subject and talked to Rolling Stone about the process of making the cover.

According to him, the model used for the cover was Louisa Livingstone who was 18 at the time of the shoot. The shoot took place at the Mapledurham Watermill in Oxfordshire. “Nowadays it’s very much more modernized, beautified, and touristed. Then, it was quite a run-down and quite spooky place. The undergrowth was quite thick and quite tangled, and it just had a kind of eerie feel to it,” he recalled.

Livingstone herself remembers the shoot as a very cold experience. “It was absolutely freezing. I remember Keith rushing around with dry ice, throwing that into the pond nearby, and that didn’t seem to be working very well, so he was using a smoke machine. But it was just one of those very cold English mornings.”

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Ozzy Osbourne Announce Two-Year Farewell World Tour

Jas Cilas — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:34:25 +0000

If you want to see Ozzy Osbourne performing live, you should do it in the next two years. The singer and former Black Sabbath vocalist announced he will embark on a two-year farewell world tour in 2018. Although this tour will be Osbourne’s last, he still left the window open for playing occasional shows after that.

“People keep asking me when I’m retiring,” Osbourne said in a statement. “This will be my final world tour, but I can’t say I won’t do some shows here and there.”

Osbourne’s final tour will kick off in May 2018 with dates in Mexico and South America including 4 shows in Brazil. After these shows, Osbourne will tour Russia and then embark on a month-long journey through Europe, where he will perform on some of the biggest music festivals including the Download Festival. The details of the North America part of the tour will be announced in 2018. Osbourne will be backed by a band consisting of guitarist Zakk Wylde, bassist Rob “Blasko” Nicholson, drummer Tommy Clufetos and keyboardist Adam Wakeman. It is expected that Osbourne presents a new material during the tour since he started working on a new solo album, his first after 2010’s Scream.

The announcement of his last tour comes just nine months after Black Sabbath played their last show. The original Black Sabbath line up consisting of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward reunited in 2011, announcing a new album and a world tour. Eventually, drummer Bill Ward backed down from the reunion and was replaced by Rage Against the Machine’s Brad Wilk. In 2013 Black Sabbath released critically acclaimed 13 and began the farewell tour titled “The End”. The final two shows of the tour were held in February in band’s hometown of Birmingham. In March 2017, members of the band officially announced that Blacks Sabbath has disbanded.

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