Black Sabbath - 13

2014 Grammy Awards:

Best Metal Performance

Black Sabbath's first album with Ozzy Osbourne since 1978

Sabbath's comeback album with the original lineup featuring Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler

Produced by Rick Rubin!

"13 does offer many of the primal joys that helped immortalize Sabbath in the first place, while documenting the spark that still unites Osbourne, Iommi, and Butler, all three of whom sound about as vital here as anyone could've hoped." — Pitchfork, June 2013

13 is the first studio album from the influential British heavy metal legends Black Sabbath since Forbidden (1995) and their first studio effort with original singer Ozzy Osbourne since Never Say Die! (1978) and bassist Geezer Butler since Cross Purposes (1994). On 13, the band that defined heavy metal picks up immediately where they left off with eight sprawling songs (five of them are over eight minutes) that possess every ounce of the maniacal vitality of the Grammy-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees' trailblazing work in the '70s.

Songs such as "End of the Beginning," "Loner," "Dear Father" and "Age of Reason" reinforce 13's testament to the enduring relevance of Black Sabbath's long-running reign. Produced by Rick Rubin (seven-time Grammy winner, two of those as Producer of the Year), 13 features Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, and Geezer Butler, who were joined at the sessions by drummer Brad Wilk (Rage Against The Machine).

Black Sabbath is credited with creating heavy metal. The success of their first two albums — Black Sabbath and Paranoid - marked a paradigm shift in the world of rock. Not until Black Sabbath upended the music scene did the term "heavy metal" enter the popular vocabulary to describe the denser, more thunderous offshoot of rock over which they presided.

"Conceived against a backdrop of conflicting personal projects, contractual disagreements and guitarist Tony Iommi's debilitating lymphoma, 13 could so easily have been an exercise in old metallers making do. But Black Sabbath's first album with Ozzy Osbourne since 1978 is bluesier, leaner and substantially less cringe-making than a great many reunion cash jobs. Guru/producer Rick Rubin has herded this band of querulous Brummies (plus Rage Against the Machine's drummer) back to doomy first principles. And if songs like the mantric, seven-minute Damaged Soul — which combines a little introductory backmasking and much heaviosity with swing and groove — sound three decades old, then it's all to the good." — The Guardian, June 2013

Side 1

End Of The Beginning

God Is Dead?

Side 2

Loner

Zeitgeist

Side 3

Age Of Reason

Live Forever

Side 4

Damaged Soul

Dear Father

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Freaking sabbath...!! posted on 07/24/2019 5 Stars Reviewer: Jpr it is purely dynamic.! Marks for a great record...!

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