Album Rating: 4.5

I'm not going to lie, it's been so fucking long since I've listened to it that I don't even remember what those albums sound like

Album Rating: 4.0

Sign of the Southern Cross is something else man, always loved this record.

Album Rating: 4.5

def a top sabbath song, dio vocal showcase and a sweet heavy ass riff. also over and over is so good. that sweet guitar solo. back to back epic sad closers on this and heaven and hell haha.

Album Rating: 4.5

Dio brings the feelz

Album Rating: 4.5

manly feelz

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listened to this earlier today at the gym for the first time in several years. it's a great album, the 3.9 average rating is too low. needs at least a 4. RIP Dio

Album Rating: 4.5

jahgreed ahrd. only one dud here in slipping away. very excited to get to dehumanizer eventually. supposed to be heavier i think.

Dio's vocals are immense, nobody had pipes like him.

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i'm alright with "slipping away" ngl. i used to like this album more than H&H tbh. i was like a half mile away from Dio when he died and this was the album that resonated with me the most.



Dehumanizer is dope af too, one of sabbath's heaviest albums. "computer god" "after all (the dead)" and "TV crimes" are some of my favorite sabbath songs.

Album Rating: 4.5

damn that's wild. very very weird coincidence but i was in the same hospital the day tom petty died.



but yeah this and h&h are super close. i give the edge to h&h right now because of the t/t. dio truly was one of a kind. good to hear about dehumanizer, honestly sounds like it appeals perfectly to me. dio plus the heavy is a magic combo.

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damn my mom cried the day tom petty died lol



you check any tony martin sabbath yet? his stuff is pretty hit or miss but they just remixed Forbidden, which is usually considered by far the worst thing the band ever did, but the new remix sounds like a whole new album. his best stuff is really good IMO tho

Album Rating: 4.5

not yet! been going in chronological order since i have never jammed a full sabbath album before this year haha. i'm really intrigued because i have absolutely no preconceived expectations. no clue what martin even sounds like. but yeah the remasters definitely got me to continue my sabbath quest.

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nice i gotchu, the chronological order journey is exactly what I did too! Tony Martin sounds a lot like Dio which is probably why he got hired. he had great pipes and his 90's stuff added a bit of a grungey gruff to his voice, but I think some of the criticism towards him is that he sounded too much like Dio without having his own personality. didn't help that he sang on some of their weakest albums. but Headless Cross is incredible and that 3.3 rating is criminal IMO, some of iommi's all-time best guitar work is on that album.

Album Rating: 4.5

it's so rewarding especially for a band like sabbath. never even jammed any classic metal before this. i seriously had no clue their discog was so varied and interesting. cool to hear about martin sounding like dio. excited to jam. gotta get through the two oddballs next haha.

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yeah man sabbath are interesting because they're all over the place. they had many vocalists and each one drastically shaped their own version of the band. stuff gets pretty weird after Mob Rules.



curious to see what you think of the next couple albums. imo, born again has awful production but hard riffs and some really good songs, and seventh star is actually my least favorite of the entire discog, but two of my bandmates are huge seventh star supporters and find it very underrated.

Album Rating: 4.5

been a wild ride. but yeah i've def heard about the production on born again lol. apparently notoriously bad.



and seventh star apparently was supposed to be a solo album but the label made him release it as sabbath right?

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you're correct about seventh star. it was never supposed to be sabbath at all but the label released it under the sabbath name to boost sales, which is why it says "black sabbath with tony iommi" on the cover. the label almost did it again with tony iommi's "the 1996 DEP Sessions", which was never officially released because the label wanted to call it sabbath and iommi refused. so people are a bit easy on seventh star for that reason; it sounds nothing like sabbath because it isn't supposed to be. i still think it sounds really bad tho lol, but it has defenders.

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah that's some truly shameful shit lol. labels used to be so much more wild. these next two albums will definitely be interesting at least. it will be fun to listen to these detours.

Southern Cross riffs hard.

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Can't get over how epic that song is, might be my fave out of the first 2 Dio records and one of my fave Sabbath songs in general.