![]() I found myself wanting to listen to Tubular Bells and since the song takes up the entirety of Side A of the album, I figured I’d just listen to the entire thing. There’s a dirtiness and campiness to it all that just screams Halloween with an edge and is one I never fail to play around the spooky holiday. The Cramps managed to combine a wonderful blend of garage rock, rockabilly and gothic imagery, referencing b-movie horrors through the wails and warbles of Lux Interior. Here’s where the Halloween vibes officially started. This has to be one of the scariest albums I have ever listened to in my life. And simplicity makes life easier that’s for sure. Au Pairs album appeared in my recommends and since I only ever heard one of their albums, I liked it, figured it’d be fun to check out another by them. The Murder Mystery was on my mind, of course, because there was a lot to prep, but in terms of music, I was still thinking of whatever album popped out at me first. Shortly after the album’s debut, Dio was diagnosed with cancer, a disease that led to his passing in 2010.Not immediately though, I started the week not full thinking of Halloween quite yet. After a hugely successful world tour supporting the collection, the quartet released what would be its final studio album, 2009’s The Devil You Know, which entered Billboard’s Top 200 chart at #8. They went their separate ways yet again, only to reconvene in 2006 – under the moniker Heaven and Hell – to record three new songs for Rhino’s 2007 compilation, Black Sabbath: The Dio Years. The story continued over a decade later when Dio and Appice rejoined Iommi and Butler to record 1992’s Dehumanizer. Still, it wasn’t the final chapter for the band. Iommi and Butler continued as Black Sabbath, while Dio and Appice left to record Dio’s solo debut, Holy Diver. The recordings capture the ferocious chemistry and dark magic that defined this incarnation of Black Sabbath with thrilling live versions of recent tracks like “Neon Knights,” “The Sign Of The Southern Cross,” “Voodoo,” and “Children Of The Sea.” The album also honored the band’s original lineup with Dio-led versions of Sabbath classics like “Paranoid,” “War Pigs,” “Iron Man,” and “N.I.B.”Īlas, the lineup split before the album was released. Reviews were overwhelmingly positive, including one from influential heavy metal magazine Kerrang! that hailed it as “one of the greatest live albums of all time.” When Live Evil arrived in 1983, the double album was a commercial and critical triumph, reaching #13 in the U.K. Black Sabbath Mk 2 had given their record label two best-selling LPs and were about to present a third.” In the extensive liner notes that accompany LIVE EVIL (40 th ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION), Hugh Gilmour writes: “The ten-month Mob Rules tour was certainly a very successful one, resurrecting their reputation not only as a band that could fill major venues, but one that could sell plenty of vinyl and cassettes too. While touring for the album, the band announced plans to record several shows for what would become its first official concert album. Released in November 1981, the album would be certified gold. When the tour ended in 1981, the group decamped to Los Angeles and quickly recorded Sabbath’s 10 th studio album, Mob Rules. Halfway through the album’s tour, Ward left and was replaced by Vinny Appice. The newly minted quartet debuted in 1980 with Heaven and Hell, a platinum-certified smash that won over fans of the original lineup. Ī new era of Black Sabbath began in 1979 when singer Ronnie James Dio joined the band, along with founding members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward, to launch a new incarnation of the iconic heavy metal band. The new mix of “The Mob Rules” is available today digitally. The physical versions also come with illustrated hardback books that include new liner notes and replicas of the concert book and poster from the Mob Rules tour. The collections feature two versions of the legendary album: a newly remastered version by Andy Pearce along with a new mix created from the original analog multi-tracks by longtime band associate Wyn Davis. LIVE EVIL (40 th ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION) will be released on June 2 as a 4-CD set for $59.98, a 4-LP set for $99.98, and digitally. 4-CD SET FEATURES ORIGINAL ALBUM REMASTERED PLUS NEW MIX OF THE FULL ALBUM:īlack Sabbath’s first official live album, Live Evil, celebrates its 40 th anniversary this year with a new Super Deluxe Edition that introduces newly remixed and remastered versions of the acclaimed double album.
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