Black Sabbath - Inside - 1970 To 1992 (DVD)

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... Read review

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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... Read review

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

...So there was I about to start tidying/packing for my leaving on Friday when I suddenly realised that there was a Black Sabbath album that I hadn't listened to in ages....then the thought of a review came upon me and alas my room will remain a pigsty and my bags will stay unpacked for the next wee while.... ************* Background ************* Okay, so hands up who doesn't know who Black Sabbath are...any offers? If so then for early background I've written more Black Sabbath reviews then anything else, and pinkmatchstick also has several brilliant ones. To get to the point, Black Sabbath were originally fronted by the self-titled Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne for the first 8 albums (the first 6 of which are ALL classics, the next 2 are just reasonable), then Ozzy left and Ronnie James Dio, him of small stature... Read review

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