The Immortal Emokid wrote:
Brahm_K wrote:
stub wrote:
Brahm_K wrote:
feedyourhead wrote:
Doctor of Metal wrote:
Maybe the best album Black Sabbath has ever made. It simply hasn't any flaws. Dio's voice is perfect, the riffs and solos are stunning and all songs are catchy as hell! Listen to the slow and melancholic "Lonely is the Word" and you'll know what I mean. Almost perfect: I'd rate it 9/10.
I'd like to know what/who your avatar is. If you don't respond can someone else possibly answer for me? That'd be great.
Its the album cover for Overkill's The Years of Decay.
And yes, this kicks anything Sabbath had done up to this point's ass (well, Sabatoge was pretty good too). This is where they really got their shit together and finally got rid of the plague known as Ozzy and came in with the God known as Dio.
C'est assez jusq'auboutiste comme opinion,mais t'es quand meme un mec sympa;ceci dit,never forget:Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbbourne is the fuckin' best!! Clap your fuckin' hands!! I can't fuckin' hear you!!!!!!!!
Disagreed. Ozzy has always been a weak vocalist, and the songwriting isn't that great on the majority of the first couple of albums, till Sabotage. Then after that, they were shitty till Dio came, and their quality really picked up after that.
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anyways, the fact remains Ozzy is Black Sabbath's Legendary singer, that the first Black Sabbath albums gave birth to Heavy Metal and that Black Sabbath with Ozzy will play stadiums while Dio is in stuck in the medium-sized venues... he's a great singer but, if you ask me, his try achievement was with Rainbow, not with Black Sabbath...
Basically, Ozzy Osborne is completely boring. He doesn't have a good singing voice ala Hansi Kursch, or a great high pitched voice like Halford. He doesn't have a cool evil voice like Doug Lee. He's just there, and has put me to sleep his whole career. And even if someone did like him, which I might be able to understand, there is no justification I can see as to him being the "ultimate" heavy metal singer. And are you really basing quality and talent based on the fact that one person played in stadiums and the other in medium sized venues? Guess Britney Spears is a great artist, then.
As for the songwriting: Early Sabbath does have some nice songwriting (War Pigs, Into the Void, Children of the Grave) some other songs), and they did invent heavy metal, but I find the majority of it to be boring. Take Black Sabbath, one of their most overrated songs. You have that slow doomy riff, and its nice. But then they repeat it. Again. And again. And then Ozzy's bad vocals come in. And then again. And again. It picks up a bit in the middle, but the majority of it is just a completely boring song. You can take another one, like Paranoid, which has no agression or emotion or anything really... Just a simple opening riff that isn't too good followed by a simple power chord progression. Repeat. Add Ozzy vocals. Mix to create average song. Then there's the just really bad, like Rat Salad. There are just a lot of average songs, with a few great ones interdispersed, and some really bad ones in there too.
And that, children, is why I think the Ozzy era of Black Sabbath is completely overrated and average.
