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It’s been bugging me all day. I swear I’ve seen very similar artwork in the past, but I just can’t put my finger on it. It’s gonna drive me nuts.
Black Sabbath. A 40-odd year institution. The first chapter in the history of heavy metal. Millions of fans the world over. Influenced dozens - if not hundreds - of bands who themselves went on to shape the face of modern music. Millions of dollars in the bank.
And yet that is the best they can come up with? An album called “13” with the number 13 spelled out in a burning bush for the album artwork??
I’m starting to smell sour grapes. The titles to some of the new tracks are absolute cliche central also:
God Is Dead
Epic
Age Of Reason
Loner
End Of The Beginning
Dear Father
So much for creativity…must have racked their brains to cme up with those little gems.
Look at OLD Black Sabbath!
Every album cover up through “Born Again” is something that looks AWESOME on a T-shirt (it gets spotty after that).
I wouldn’t be caught dead with this stupid burning “13” on my torso.
So retarded.
I’m not even a massive Sabbath fan and I know that cover is shit compared to past Sabbath albums. I remember looking through my parents records and the Black Sabbath covers always seemed so badass to me (also the Scorpions one where the dude has bubblegum stuck to his hand and some chick’s boob… or something…).
That looks like ass. And “13” is too predictable and cheesy.
Black Sabbath. A 40-odd year institution. The first chapter in the history of heavy metal. Millions of fans the world over. Influenced dozens - if not hundreds - of bands who themselves went on to shape the face of modern music. Millions of dollars in the bank.
And yet that is the best they can come up with? An album called “13” with the number 13 spelled out in a burning bush for the album artwork??
I’m starting to smell sour grapes. The titles to some of the new tracks are absolute cliche central also:
God Is Dead
Epic
Age Of Reason
Loner
End Of The Beginning
Dear Father
So much for creativity…must have racked their brains to cme up with those little gems.
There’s also a song called ‘Methademic’ , apparently about meth addiction, ooooh. They had to write a drug song but why about meth?
I HATE that album art. It looks so . . . . 90’s. Like something for Toad The Wet Sprocket or Tori Amos or Gin Blossoms or something. Definitely not properly fitting for the godfathers and creators of HEAVY METAL!!!
So far I’m getting kind of pissed at how this is playing out . . .
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Album title: GAY!
Album art: GAY!
Lack of Bill Ward: Totally gay.
Song Snippets/ Samples: Hopeful and semi-promising, but I’m not holding my breath.
LOL i agree with all those points. Is that really the new album cover?? Ouch… looks like something more suitable for a Dead Can Dance album cover but for Sabbath? Eww.
I actually met Ozzy in person two times in recent years when he came by to do book signings in SF. First time he was really out of it and second time he looked happy.Cool guy and I wish them the best ,but dang I can’t help but feel on some level this new album’s going to suck!
There’s also a song called ‘Methademic’ , apparently about meth addiction, ooooh. They had to write a drug song but why about meth?
Seriously? What the fudge? That’s up there with “Get up, Get Out, And Vote”. Sabbath WAS drugs. They could write songs on and about Cocaine, Weed, Acid, Heroin. But meth? Oh, give me a break. First off, they’re all (moderately) clean now, and I don’t think any of them ever did meth (why would they when they can afford coke?). This is just reeking of desperation. If there’s one thing I DON’T need in my Sabbath album, it’s a heavy-handed preachy social message about drugs . . . . especially one that I have a hard time believing any of them really have a personal investment in.
I actually met Ozzy in person two times in recent years when he came by to do book signings in SF. First time he was really out of it and second time he looked happy.Cool guy and I wish them the best ,but dang I can’t help but feel on some level this new album’s going to suck!
I met Ozzy in 2000, or 2001. It was shortly after his wife had gotten diagnosed with butt cancer, and he was SUPER DUPER DOPED UP. He was like an absolute zombie. I had my picture taken with him and then when my friend took his picture, Ozzy leaned his head on his shoulder and fell asleep. He’s actually got the photo like this, with Ozzy, eyes closed, passed out.
Here’s mine, along with his hideous troll children.
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Yes, Kelly is in love with me.
Haha cool pic! That’s the same look he gave me first time I met him.
Anyways I heard that new song clip now and it sounds okay. I don’t like the guitar tone though. Sounds too modern. I don’t like their choice of Rick Rubin as the producer.
And yea a song about meth is really lame. I wonder since Tony has cancer don’t you think he’s smoking medical marijuana?
I wonder since Tony has cancer don’t you think he’s smoking medical marijuana?
I hadn’t thought about it, but it certainly wouldn’t be shocking if it were so.
If there’s one thing I DON’T need in my Sabbath album, it’s a heavy-handed preachy social message. . . .
Then may I suggest you don’t buy the new album then.
Cos heavy handed preachy social messages will be all over this like flies on shit…seeing as they’re all older and “wiser” and more “politically and socially aware”.
Eeeeeeuuuuughhh!! Reminds me of the last few Killing Joke albums: Preach preach…bullshit bullshit. Capitalism is wrong. Iraq was invaded. Corporations are taking over in a global conspiracy to own you. Yada yada yada. Now hand over your hard earned so we can go out and get high and then buy European cars…!!
Wankers.
Hahaha nice one…
Ozzy’s writing the lyrics.
If Geezer was writing them they’d still have social messages, but they wouldn’t be so heavy handed.
It looks like an Audioslave cover. I wonder if Hipgnosis designed it.
Oh Ozzy is doing the lyrics…that explains the “Nowhere to run/Nowhere to hide” snippet…ugh…
They had to write a drug song but why about meth?
Cause Breaking Bad is FUCKING AWESOME!
Late,
grmpysmrf
[reply] They had to write a drug song but why about meth?
Cause Breaking Bad is FUCKING AWESOME!
Late,
grmpysmrf[/reply]
Indeed it is…did you get all caught up on them,Grmps?
Cannot wait for the final half of BB. Shit is going down.
8 final episodes…in july I think…
Hell yeah! End of July I think. Still hate that they split it up, but I’m sure the series will more than make up for it, I’m sure. Last season had me shitting bricks. It was insane.
Say my name.
Heisenberg
You goddamn right!
It’s good they split it up because at the time of the last season they were very torn on where to take the story…the best suggestion was to break and get it right…the good news is Vince Gilligan has said it will have a conclusive ending…it will be close-ended and won’t have a vague Soprano’s style ending…
The cliched song titles really get my goat.
Sabbath songs were never the hardest walnuts to crack, in terms of interpretation. But that’s what made them awesome. Like Bon Scott, Ozzy isn’t a Rhodes scholar, but he could be pretty poetic when he wanted to be. Gutter poetry? If armed with a better vocabulary (or not suffering from dyslexia), he would’ve been a frightening talent. Nonetheless, while not verbose, the old lyrics were good. Drunken existentialist pub rantings.
But this stuff…
these song titles…
14 year old first metal band titles.