While being overshadowed by the legacies of the original '70s line-up with Ozzy and the turn of the decade NWOBHM period with Dio, I feel that later Black Sabbath (with Glenn Hughes, Ian Gillan and especially Tony Martin as their respective singers) was still a great and important band but sadly kind of underrated.
You simply MUST listen to "Angry Heart" / "In Memory" from the same album. They're listed as two different tracks, but it's really one song with a seamless transition. My favorite song of all time. Glenn is simply one of the most gifted vocalists on the planet.
Indeed he is ; I've been a big fan of Glenn Hughes since he was with his band, Trapeze , which also featured Mel Galley on guitar, and Dave Holland on drums who would end up replacing Les Binks as the drummer for Judas Priest ....👌👍
@dalelangley1604 Trapeze, there's a tight band that had not crossed my mind, in what could be argued to long. Suddenly I'm overcome by the need to hear some
I'm so glad you have decided to check out these latter day songs by Black Sabbath as well. All reactors do the (original) Ozzy era. Most also do the (original) Dio era. But few venture beyond that, and they really should because by not doing so they never get acquainted with some of the greatest vintage style heavy metal there ever was. The whole story is obviously too extensive to cover here - you'd never bear reading it all - but here's a summary, that I hope will encourage you to delve deeper. Following Dio's original departure, Black Sabbath did one, SUPER HEAVY and delightful album, "Born again" with former/current Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan in 1983. "Zero the hero", "Disturbing the priest", "Digital bitch" and "Trashed" are just some of its many highlights. After Ian's departure to the reformed Deep Purple, eventually the planned solo album by Tony Iommi with Glenn Hughes on vocals became a Black Sabbath album (of sorts) in the shape of "Seventh star". Another glorious release, alternating between epic, pompous heaviness like "Heart like a wheel" and the title track, speed metal mayhem on "In for the kill" and "Turn to stone", and singalong catchiness on "Danger zone" and the ballad "No stranger to love". Then came the era that few or no Americans remember, but has become a revered cult phenomenon with its own dedicated fanbase in Europe. The Tony Martin years. Between 1987 and 1995, Black Sabbath released five studio albums with this unbelievably talented son of Birmingham, England (interspersed with another album with Ronnie James Dio in 1992, "Dehumanizer" - the heaviest album Black Sabbath EVER made and also chock-full of superlative songs like "Computer God", "After all", "TV crimes" and "I". But, back to the Martin era.) Tony Martin was, and is, a phenomenal singer with a huge, bombastic, highly Dio-reminiscent voice. He's also a certified multi-instrumentalist and a lyricist of the highest calibre, covering topics of history, mythology and contemporary drama with equal panache and the most exquisite vocabulary. Those five albums are "The eternal idol" (1987), "Headless cross" (1989), "Tyr" (1990), "Cross purposes" (1994) and "Forbidden" (1995). "Headless cross" and "Tyr" in particular are widely regarded (overseas, that is) as some of the greatest heavy metal albums EVER made. The collected batch of albums contain innumerable tracks of stellar quality: "Headless cross", "Anno mundi", "The shining", "When death calls" (with Queen's Brian May doing a magnificent guitar solo), "I witness", "The hand that rocks the cradle" to name but a very, very few. The "Forbidden" album has often been maligned for its poor sound quality (the idea to record the whole album in eight days to capture the vibe turned out to be a bad one), but is beginning to get some reevaluation in recent times. And rightly so. "Kiss of death", the title track, "Get a grip" and "The illusion of power" are great Black Sabbath songs, not to be missed. The latter song also features some guest rapping from none other than Ice-T, a long time Black Sabbath fan and himself the frontman of the amazing rap metal band Body Count. Keep up the good work, my friend - I have always loved your reactions!
The legendary Glenn Hughes made his first waves with Trapeze in the early 70s, but he got his big break when he became the bassist and co-lead vocalist of Deep Purple in 1973, making three stellar album before the band (temporarily) disbanded in 1976. Since then he has been a prolific solo artist and also recorded with the likes of Hughes/Thrall (one classic album in 1982), Phenomena (all but unknown in the US, a cult act in Europe), Black Sabbath (duh!) and, in recent times, his own classic heavy rock band Black Country Communion, currently recording their fifth album and featuring an all-star lineup: guitarist Joe Bonamassa (one of the titans of contemporary blues), keyboardist Derek Sherinian (of Alice Cooper and Dream Theater fame) and drummer Jason Bonham (the son of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham who himself has performed with that band, as well as other legendary acts like UFO and Foreigner). Glenn himself is playing the bass - of course. It's sometimes forgotten, because his amazing voice gets all the attention, but he's also an amazing bass player. And, at the age of 72, Glenn STILL hits those high notes! Live he often throws in some extra ones just to show off a little. Next year he will also be doing shows celebrating the 50th anniversary of Deep Purple's "Burn" album - whose songs are never performed by the actual Deep Purple, since Ian Gillan can't bring himself to sing songs from when he himself was out of the band.
Glenn Hughes sang on the album, Dave Spitz played the bass, drums by Eric Singer and keyboards by Geoff Nicholls. Rehearsing for the album they had vocalist David Donato and Jeff Fenholt. Ended up with Glenn Hughes. He did the first 5 shows on the tour before being substituted by Ray Gillen who finished the tour. Ray Gillen recorded the demos for the next album Eternal Idol before being substituted by Tony Martin. According to bass player Bob Daisley the management didn't pay Gillen and the rest of the band so Singer and Gillen left. Tony Martin recorded the album. There are a great live concert on TH-cam. Go search for Black Sabbath Ray Gillen live. He had such a great voice. Could sing it all. Ozzy, Dio and Gillan RIP
In fact, exactly Black Sabbath was one of the first heavy metal bands - they added heaviness to blues, psychedelic rock and blues rock. And later they were the same - pioneers. If you like that heavy blues, you may like a two bands - Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly. They were "pre-Black Sabbath", especially Blue Cheer - Iron Butterfly were more psychedelic, rainy, but they also had a few heavy songs. Pioneers of hard rock, just like Black Sabbath
I love Eric Singer's playing and sound on this album. Far better than the stuff he's done with KISS. If they would just let him loose and let him play & give him the sound he's got on this and other projects he's been in non KISS,they would sound a hell of a lot better in my opinion. By the way I'm sorry,and I apologize,I turned this into a critique of KISS, because of the Eric S. Connection...
@@cliffsanchez1451 No argument here, I saw Eric Singer with Alice Cooper a few years ago and he was a beast. In Kiss he sounds kind of tamed and standard.
Tony Iommi was one of those incredible riff masters and probably IMO was THE RIFF master. My library consisted of Ted Nugent, Sabbath, AC/DC, Robin Trower, UFO, Skynyrd, Allman Bros. Those along with Frampton, Zep were no misses ever.
Yes, this was supposed to be a solo album but the record company had to extract a Black Sabbath album, so this is what they got. A very underrated album and a lineup he used only on this album. There are a few great tunes on it, try Danger Zone for a true banger. Tony NEVER fails to deliver, no matter who is on an album with him. Don't forget any Black Sabbath albums, Tony is on every single one and always worth a listen. Enjoy! ♪♪♪♪
I had tickets for this tour for Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland Ca. in early '87. Showed up, saw some tumbleweeds of garbage roll by in the parking lot. Got up to the door CANCELLED
If you want to react to something unordinary, you can check germanian band In Extremo that played rock and even metal with medieval elements - really rare combination. "Frei zu sein" (To Be Free) - best their thing (better to read lyrics translation), and also most known "Herr Mannelieg" (song that became known by legendary atmospherical videogame "Gothic")
I love Glenn Hughes' voice and he was great for the album recording but was struggling with alcohol and cocaine addiction, resulting in his premature departure. He was incredible at the helm of Trapeze, in Deep Purple and I've loved all of his work with Iommi (and a good chunk of his solo stuff). This reactor needs to check out Tony Martin at Sabbath though, easily my second fave after Dio.
Glenn had a lot of drug issues back then - it got that bad, Sabbath got a bodyguard to keep an eye on him. Before the Seventh Star tour started, he got into a fight and had his occipital bone fractured, resulting in blood going into his throat, and drying on his vocal chords. This is why he couldnt sing properly, and why he was replaced with Ray Gillen. Glenn would get sober and reunite with Tony Iommi and record two albums with him, The 1996 DEP Sessions and Fused. He sounds brilliant too.
No you told me once you couldn’t play this Black Sabbath stuff from the 80s and 90s now listen to the Tony Martin years headless cross is a good song Devil and daughter is a good song when death calls is a great song check them out
While being overshadowed by the legacies of the original '70s line-up with Ozzy and the turn of the decade NWOBHM period with Dio, I feel that later Black Sabbath (with Glenn Hughes, Ian Gillan and especially Tony Martin as their respective singers) was still a great and important band but sadly kind of underrated.
You simply MUST listen to "Angry Heart" / "In Memory" from the same album. They're listed as two different tracks, but it's really one song with a seamless transition. My favorite song of all time. Glenn is simply one of the most gifted vocalists on the planet.
Every song on this album is awesome!!
Glen Hughes is an absolute beast
Indeed he is ; I've been a big fan of Glenn Hughes since he was with his band, Trapeze , which also featured Mel Galley on guitar, and Dave Holland on drums who would end up replacing Les Binks as the drummer for Judas Priest ....👌👍
@dalelangley1604 Trapeze, there's a tight band that had not crossed my mind, in what could be argued to long. Suddenly I'm overcome by the need to hear some
I'm so glad you have decided to check out these latter day songs by Black Sabbath as well. All reactors do the (original) Ozzy era. Most also do the (original) Dio era. But few venture beyond that, and they really should because by not doing so they never get acquainted with some of the greatest vintage style heavy metal there ever was. The whole story is obviously too extensive to cover here - you'd never bear reading it all - but here's a summary, that I hope will encourage you to delve deeper.
Following Dio's original departure, Black Sabbath did one, SUPER HEAVY and delightful album, "Born again" with former/current Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan in 1983. "Zero the hero", "Disturbing the priest", "Digital bitch" and "Trashed" are just some of its many highlights.
After Ian's departure to the reformed Deep Purple, eventually the planned solo album by Tony Iommi with Glenn Hughes on vocals became a Black Sabbath album (of sorts) in the shape of "Seventh star". Another glorious release, alternating between epic, pompous heaviness like "Heart like a wheel" and the title track, speed metal mayhem on "In for the kill" and "Turn to stone", and singalong catchiness on "Danger zone" and the ballad "No stranger to love".
Then came the era that few or no Americans remember, but has become a revered cult phenomenon with its own dedicated fanbase in Europe. The Tony Martin years. Between 1987 and 1995, Black Sabbath released five studio albums with this unbelievably talented son of Birmingham, England (interspersed with another album with Ronnie James Dio in 1992, "Dehumanizer" - the heaviest album Black Sabbath EVER made and also chock-full of superlative songs like "Computer God", "After all", "TV crimes" and "I". But, back to the Martin era.)
Tony Martin was, and is, a phenomenal singer with a huge, bombastic, highly Dio-reminiscent voice. He's also a certified multi-instrumentalist and a lyricist of the highest calibre, covering topics of history, mythology and contemporary drama with equal panache and the most exquisite vocabulary. Those five albums are "The eternal idol" (1987), "Headless cross" (1989), "Tyr" (1990), "Cross purposes" (1994) and "Forbidden" (1995). "Headless cross" and "Tyr" in particular are widely regarded (overseas, that is) as some of the greatest heavy metal albums EVER made. The collected batch of albums contain innumerable tracks of stellar quality: "Headless cross", "Anno mundi", "The shining", "When death calls" (with Queen's Brian May doing a magnificent guitar solo), "I witness", "The hand that rocks the cradle" to name but a very, very few. The "Forbidden" album has often been maligned for its poor sound quality (the idea to record the whole album in eight days to capture the vibe turned out to be a bad one), but is beginning to get some reevaluation in recent times. And rightly so. "Kiss of death", the title track, "Get a grip" and "The illusion of power" are great Black Sabbath songs, not to be missed. The latter song also features some guest rapping from none other than Ice-T, a long time Black Sabbath fan and himself the frontman of the amazing rap metal band Body Count.
Keep up the good work, my friend - I have always loved your reactions!
@@JoshCarlos1998 Yes they are, no it wasn't, no it isn't, yes it was, respectively. All debate ends here.
The legendary Glenn Hughes made his first waves with Trapeze in the early 70s, but he got his big break when he became the bassist and co-lead vocalist of Deep Purple in 1973, making three stellar album before the band (temporarily) disbanded in 1976. Since then he has been a prolific solo artist and also recorded with the likes of Hughes/Thrall (one classic album in 1982), Phenomena (all but unknown in the US, a cult act in Europe), Black Sabbath (duh!) and, in recent times, his own classic heavy rock band Black Country Communion, currently recording their fifth album and featuring an all-star lineup: guitarist Joe Bonamassa (one of the titans of contemporary blues), keyboardist Derek Sherinian (of Alice Cooper and Dream Theater fame) and drummer Jason Bonham (the son of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham who himself has performed with that band, as well as other legendary acts like UFO and Foreigner). Glenn himself is playing the bass - of course. It's sometimes forgotten, because his amazing voice gets all the attention, but he's also an amazing bass player.
And, at the age of 72, Glenn STILL hits those high notes! Live he often throws in some extra ones just to show off a little. Next year he will also be doing shows celebrating the 50th anniversary of Deep Purple's "Burn" album - whose songs are never performed by the actual Deep Purple, since Ian Gillan can't bring himself to sing songs from when he himself was out of the band.
An underrated heavy blues dirge. Im surprised anyone would recommend it or review it. Thanks T!
The voice great soul voice Glen Hughes.
One of my favorite albums as a teenager. Seventh Star is a hidden gem. Another great cut on this album is Angry Heart.
Great Album and Tony first time in full control of the band. This is the start of Iommi going in a more progressive direction. Eric Singer on drums
Glenn Hughes sang on the album, Dave Spitz played the bass, drums by Eric Singer and keyboards by Geoff Nicholls. Rehearsing for the album they had vocalist David Donato and Jeff Fenholt. Ended up with Glenn Hughes. He did the first 5 shows on the tour before being substituted by Ray Gillen who finished the tour. Ray Gillen recorded the demos for the next album Eternal Idol before being substituted by Tony Martin. According to bass player Bob Daisley the management didn't pay Gillen and the rest of the band so Singer and Gillen left. Tony Martin recorded the album. There are a great live concert on TH-cam. Go search for Black Sabbath Ray Gillen live. He had such a great voice. Could sing it all. Ozzy, Dio and Gillan RIP
20 years after this, Tony and Glen got together again. "I go Insane" is incredible.
In fact, exactly Black Sabbath was one of the first heavy metal bands - they added heaviness to blues, psychedelic rock and blues rock. And later they were the same - pioneers. If you like that heavy blues, you may like a two bands - Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly. They were "pre-Black Sabbath", especially Blue Cheer - Iron Butterfly were more psychedelic, rainy, but they also had a few heavy songs. Pioneers of hard rock, just like Black Sabbath
Now that you listened to this you gotta listen to "Seventh Star" with the instrumental lead in "The Sphinx"
Welcome to the world of Glenn Hughes. By the way, I think Eric Singer was on the drums, now with kiss.
I love Eric Singer's playing and sound on this album. Far better than the stuff he's done with KISS. If they would just let him loose and let him play & give him the sound he's got on this and other projects he's been in non KISS,they would sound a hell of a lot better in my opinion. By the way I'm sorry,and I apologize,I turned this into a critique of KISS, because of the Eric S. Connection...
@@cliffsanchez1451 No argument here, I saw Eric Singer with Alice Cooper a few years ago and he was a beast. In Kiss he sounds kind of tamed and standard.
What a great album!! All the line up was on fire
Tony Iommi was one of those incredible riff masters and probably IMO was THE RIFF master. My library consisted of Ted Nugent, Sabbath, AC/DC, Robin Trower, UFO, Skynyrd, Allman Bros. Those along with Frampton, Zep were no misses ever.
Yes, this was supposed to be a solo album but the record company had to extract a Black Sabbath album, so this is what they got. A very underrated album and a lineup he used only on this album. There are a few great tunes on it, try Danger Zone for a true banger. Tony NEVER fails to deliver, no matter who is on an album with him. Don't forget any Black Sabbath albums, Tony is on every single one and always worth a listen. Enjoy! ♪♪♪♪
Damn, this might be my first non-Ozzy/Dio Sabbath I have heard. But I'm digging it.
In for the Kill is the major full speed rocker on the album. Great album!
One of my favorites by them. The whole album is great.
Grew up on this it’s still epic because in those days talent was required no autotune to save you
I had tickets for this tour for Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland Ca. in early '87. Showed up, saw some tumbleweeds of garbage roll by in the parking lot. Got up to the door CANCELLED
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Need to check out their song Headless Cross with Tony Martin on vocals ! Killer song!
This is a very underrated album
Its great you are getting more unique requests of Sabbath. Theres more gems of non ozzy non dio out there. Try Zero the Hero
Seventh star is a great tune.
A good track! You'll like the Tony Martin era material even more, especially the next three albums after this. \m/
If you want to react to something unordinary, you can check germanian band In Extremo that played rock and even metal with medieval elements - really rare combination. "Frei zu sein" (To Be Free) - best their thing (better to read lyrics translation), and also most known "Herr Mannelieg" (song that became known by legendary atmospherical videogame "Gothic")
I love Glenn Hughes' voice and he was great for the album recording but was struggling with alcohol and cocaine addiction, resulting in his premature departure. He was incredible at the helm of Trapeze, in Deep Purple and I've loved all of his work with Iommi (and a good chunk of his solo stuff). This reactor needs to check out Tony Martin at Sabbath though, easily my second fave after Dio.
Check out Tony Martin's solo stuff. He's an amazing vocalist.
Glenn had a lot of drug issues back then - it got that bad, Sabbath got a bodyguard to keep an eye on him. Before the Seventh Star tour started, he got into a fight and had his occipital bone fractured, resulting in blood going into his throat, and drying on his vocal chords. This is why he couldnt sing properly, and why he was replaced with Ray Gillen.
Glenn would get sober and reunite with Tony Iommi and record two albums with him, The 1996 DEP Sessions and Fused. He sounds brilliant too.
OMG...I had no idea. Now I have some searching to do on the dark web.
You should do "I go Insane" from Fused
No you told me once you couldn’t play this Black Sabbath stuff from the 80s and 90s now listen to the Tony Martin years headless cross is a good song Devil and daughter is a good song when death calls is a great song check them out
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