[quote]legendaryblaze wrote:
Dio >>>>>>>>>> God>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Ozzy[/quote]
Holy shit… Hell just froze over! We actually agree on something!
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
GEEZER BUTLER: ‘If We’d Written This Album With OZZY, We’d Still Be Working On The First Track’
â??If weâ??d written this album with Ozzy, weâ??d still be working on the first track.â?? Geezer Butler laughs when he says this, but heâ??s not actually joking. Sitting in a sterile meeting room at Rhino Records in Burbank, Black Sabbathâ??s legendary bassist and lyricist knows of what he speaks: When Butler and fellow metal gurus Tony Iommi and Bill Ward attempted to record new Sabbath material with Osbourne back in 2001 after the Drab Fourâ??s triumphant Reunion cycle, the future television celebrity couldnâ??t be bothered.
â??We wrote about six songs, but the keyboard player, Geoff Nicholls, came up with the vocal melodies because Ozzy wasnâ??t really interested,â?? Butler reveals. â??I didnâ??t like the stuff that was coming out at all. I wanted it to be more like classic Sabbath, like the first three albums. No strings, no ballads, nothing like that. But Ozzy wanted it to be more like an Ozzy album, so we didnâ??t agree on what it should be straight away.â??
Butler laughs again, but again, heâ??s not even slightly kidding: â??Rick Rubin wanted to produce it until he heard what we did.â??
Enter Ronnie James Dio. Ronnie James-ah. In late 2006, Butler and Iommi hook up with Ozzyâ??s early â??80s replacement and Mob Rules/Dehumanizer/longtime Dio skin-beater Vinny Appice to record three new songs for Sabbathâ??s The Dio Years compilation. Which in turn spawns a one-month tour under the Heaven and Hell moniker, culminating in a live album and concert video recorded at Radio City Music Hall. The punters and promoters just cannot get enough at this point, not with â??Neon Knightsâ?? and â??Mob Rulesâ?? and â??Children of the Seaâ?? still ringing in their ears like the goddamn national anthem, so the Metal Masters tour is quickly assembled. For three weeks in August 2008, Priest, Mot�¶rhead and Testament fill the arena-void before the hot live Dio action commences. Itâ??s like 1981 all over again, except for the Testament part. Which brings us to The Devil You Know, the new album from Heaven and Hell, the band formerly known as Black Sabbath. But the details here are perhaps best left unspoken, if not to protect the innocent, then most certainly to avoid slagging the guilty. Suffice it to say: When we tell our old cross-country comrade-in-arms, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer scribe Ken â??Sleazegrinderâ?? McIntyre, that The Devil You Know is considerably less than satisfying, he immediately points out the irrefutable: â??Fuck it,â?? he says. â??Theyâ??ve done enough for rock â??nâ?? roll already.â??[/quote]
You’re not really helping your argument by quoting an article that goes on to say that the Dio Sabbath/Heaven & Hell album in question “is considerably less than satisfying”.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
You’re not really helping your argument by quoting an article that goes on to say that the Dio Sabbath/Heaven & Hell album in question “is considerably less than satisfying”.[/quote]
Nah, but it sure is funny reading the headline over and over.
LOL
[quote]skaz05 wrote:
I’ve heard many claim that this is the best Black Sabbath album:
I honestly can’t say I’ve heard that, but okay. Funny though I have never heard ANYTHING from this covered by another band.
Like this for example,
Dehumanizer just never really did it for me, I guess because I was more into Sabbath in the Seventies and VERY early eighties.
Dio has a better voice and a better scream, but to me this is Sabbath
Ozzy is Sabbath, no doubt.
Ozzy and Randy Rhodes is Ozzy too -
BUT - Dio turned Sabbath into something else altogether.
I like both for different reasons.
Sacrilege, I know.
Gonna get flamed, but here goes:
Love Ozzy, but no one and I mean no one can one up Dio…other than maybe Tony Martin on the most underrated Sabbath alum ever - TYR. That album is nothing less than a master piece.