It does have great melody, powerful riffs by Iommi and inspiring lyrics. Play this opening track outloud in the morning when you wake up, it will blow you away for sure. Well, at least you will notice how great and powerful the guitar riffs using power chords produced by Iommi and ...
Right off the bat, ''Back Street Kids'' sounds like a very lame attempt at a Black Sabbath song; a wimpy riff compared to earlier material and syrupy lyrics about the ''rock and roll'' lifestyle. Much of the rest of the album doesn't work for me as well. I'm not a big fan ...
‘Beyond the Wall of Sleep,’ and actually fell asleep and dreamed all the lyrics and the main riff to the song,” Butler remembers. “When I woke up, I wrote down the lyrics, played the riff on my bass so I’d remember it — we didn’t have any recording devices ba...
An outlier on the album, "Changes" is a ballad featuring piano and mellotron. Iommi's guitar work is subtle here, utilizing open-string riffs and arpeggiated chord progressions that complement the melancholy lyrics. Guitar Lesson 4: "FX" An experimental instrumental, "FX" showcases Iommi's cr...
You gotta admit that “All Moving Parts (Stand Still)” is a pretty nifty, even thought-provoking title, and Geezer Butler never played a funkier bass line, but you have to wonder if he was taking the piss when he told biographer Mick Wall that he wrote these lyrics about “a transvesti...
for “TV Crimes” and “Time Machine.” Abrasive riffing dominates songs like the start and stop of “Computer God,”“After All the Dead” and “Letters From Earth.” The menacing “I” finds a balance between both styles with Dio’s self-empowering lyrics delivered with unbridled ...
3. "Under the Sun" / "Every Day Comes and Goes" 4. "After Forever" 5. "Into the Void" 6. "Snowblind" 7. "War Pigs" 8. "Behind the Wall of Sleep" 9. "N.I.B." 10. "Hand of Doom" 11. "Supernaut" / "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" / "Megalomania" ...
for “TV Crimes” and “Time Machine.” Abrasive riffing dominates songs like the start and stop of “Computer God,”“After All the Dead” and “Letters From Earth.” The menacing “I” finds a balance between both styles with Dio’s self-empowering lyrics delivered with unbridled ...
Butler had the lyrics written out for Osbourne when it came time to record the vocals, and Iommi recalled the singer struggling with them a bit. "It has this slow bit, but then the riff where Osbourne comes in is very fast. Osbourne had to sing really rapidly: 'Rocket engines burning ...
for “TV Crimes” and “Time Machine.” Abrasive riffing dominates songs like the start and stop of “Computer God,”“After All the Dead” and “Letters From Earth.” The menacing “I” finds a balance between both styles with Dio’s self-empowering lyrics delivered with unbridled ...