20 days until the geezers of Sabbath take stage in Stinky Town. Can you smell it in the air? The stench of heavy metal? (A friend recently told me that smell was actually a combo of Aquanet, weed and crotch rot. Possibly.) In any case, this week the reunited Sabbath (currently touring as Heaven and Hell) posted one of the new studio tracks to be included on their upcoming box set Black Sabbath: The Dio Years. The new tune is called The Devil Cried and, well... despite (or because of?) the opening line "One fine day in Hell," it's not as bad as it could be considering what some other 'reunion' bands have produced. Very reminiscent of their early work with the little man, almost like it fell off the Mob Rules album. It's got most of the ingredients (thundering drums, heavy guitar and bass, devilish lyrics) but lacks the full song structure of their epic tracks like Falling off the Edge of the World or Heaven and Hell. It just starts and stops. Not his best effort, but 'ol Ronnie J. performs pretty well for a metalhead in his mid-60s. Sure as hell beats hearing Robert Plant trying to pull off a decent Babe I'm Gonna Leave You these days.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
The Road to Heaven and Hell: 20 Days To Go
20 days until the geezers of Sabbath take stage in Stinky Town. Can you smell it in the air? The stench of heavy metal? (A friend recently told me that smell was actually a combo of Aquanet, weed and crotch rot. Possibly.) In any case, this week the reunited Sabbath (currently touring as Heaven and Hell) posted one of the new studio tracks to be included on their upcoming box set Black Sabbath: The Dio Years. The new tune is called The Devil Cried and, well... despite (or because of?) the opening line "One fine day in Hell," it's not as bad as it could be considering what some other 'reunion' bands have produced. Very reminiscent of their early work with the little man, almost like it fell off the Mob Rules album. It's got most of the ingredients (thundering drums, heavy guitar and bass, devilish lyrics) but lacks the full song structure of their epic tracks like Falling off the Edge of the World or Heaven and Hell. It just starts and stops. Not his best effort, but 'ol Ronnie J. performs pretty well for a metalhead in his mid-60s. Sure as hell beats hearing Robert Plant trying to pull off a decent Babe I'm Gonna Leave You these days.
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Gotta know...WHAT are you wearing?
To the show, I mean, NOT NOW you filthy metalhead.
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