BLACK SABBATH

A brief review of the album

13

"The love I feel as I fly endlessly through space ..."

Zeitgeist

Finally: the long awaited album of the best metal Band on Earth: Black Sabbath’s 13, is online. After a long wait and many rumors about the production, sound and drummer in turn, I share with you, my dear two readers, that I just heard the full album and left me more than satisfied.
I still remember the 11-11-11, when the Sabbath website launched the good news to the world: A reunion of the band with the original Line Up.

Months later they announced the entering to the recording studio and "going back to their old days" with Ozzy and Tony as front men.

Amazing!
We all knew that a new goal would be a "world tour" with the new album.

And indeed, everything started rolling in early 2012, but with the sad news that Bill would not be more with the band because of some troubles.

The nerves and huge doubts appear to me when they annexed the "very young guy" Tom Clufetos (as a name of snack) and personally, with a very bad sound. Recording the "Download Festival" in June 2012 sounds pretty bad, plus Ozzy's voice is lost greatly between high percussion and bass.
Fortunately for the recording of "13" they brought Brad Wilk and sounds remarkably good.

From "End of the Beginning" with the classic doom metal sound and the voice of Ozzy with "Is this the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?" to "Dear Father" sounds the old school and classic metal of Sabbath.

"God is Dead" is the second track, which is being promoted for "13" and since the release on YouTube has been a resounding success.

"Loner" is the Sabbath seventies style and then comes an exquisite and fully penetrant song for the soul, "Zeitgeist" with lyrics flawless in the strict sense of the composition in acoustic version where Tony shows his virtuosity. It is for me the best song on the album.

Then appear "Age of Reason", "Live Forever", "Damaged Soul" and "Dear Father" remembering why Sabbath is the Best Metal ever with heavy and dense sounds... very dense.

If after listening to the entire album of Sabbath you disagree with me, then something is wrong in your brain. And really: "I don’t care".

Enjoy… “Thirteen”.