According to TV3, BLACK SABBATH singer Ozzy Osbourne says the band’s long-awaited new studio album, 13, is “mind-blowing.”
Speaking to Australia’s Triple M radio station, Ozzy said: ”The album is mind-blowing, that’s]how good it is. I’m so over the moon about the way the album turned out. We wrote 16 songs … and I put it on my CD player expecting me to be unhappy with the end result, but this big grin came on my face and my hair on the back of my neck stood up. It’s better than my wildest dreams; it’s so good.”
13 will include three seven-plus-minute tracks – ‘End Of The Beginning’, ‘God Is Dead’ and ‘Epic’ – and Ozzy is thrilled the band have managed to recapture their ”heavy” roots.
The official artwork for 13, can be viewed below and in the YouTube clip introduction you can hear a snippet of a new song:
13 was recorded primarily in Los Angeles and features the original Black Sabbath – Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi(guitar) and Geezer Butler (bass) – who were joined at the sessions by drummer Brad Wilk (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE). Produced by Rick Rubin (SLAYER, METALLICA), the album will be released on Vertigo (worldwide) and Vertigo/Republic in North America on June 13th.
13 is available for pre-order on a variety of formats via Blacksabbath.com.
Options include:
– Standard CD album
– Deluxe double CD album in a deluxe soft-pack (includes a second disc of exclusive bonus audio material)
– Vinyl: a 12” heavyweight (180g) vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve
– Super Deluxe Box Set: a Limited edition 12” clamshell box set which contains: Deluxe double CD album, 12” heavyweight (180g) vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve, Exclusive DVD containing Black Sabbath–The Re-union documentary, plus 5 behind-the-scenes videos, Download card containing exclusive track by track interview with Black Sabbath, 13 exclusive photographic prints and hand written album lyrics.
The official artwork for BLACK SABBATH‘s new album, 13, can be viewed below and in the YouTube clip:
13 was recorded primarily in Los Angeles and features the original Black Sabbath – Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi(guitar) and Geezer Butler (bass) – who were joined at the sessions by drummer Brad Wilk (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE). Produced by Rick Rubin (SLAYER, METALLICA), the album will be released on Vertigo (worldwide) and Vertigo/Republic in North Ameerica on June 13th.
13 is available for pre-order on a variety of formats via Blacksabbath.com.
Options include:
– Standard CD album
– Deluxe double CD album in a deluxe soft-pack (includes a second disc of exclusive bonus audio material)
– Vinyl: a 12” heavyweight (180g) vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve
– Super Deluxe Box Set: a Limited edition 12” clamshell box set which contains: Deluxe double CD album, 12” heavyweight (180g) vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve, Exclusive DVD containing Black Sabbath–The Re-union documentary, plus 5 behind-the-scenes videos, Download card containing exclusive track by track interview with Black Sabbath, 13 exclusive photographic prints and hand written album lyrics.
In addition, anyone who pre-orders any of these formats via Blacksabbath.com will be entered into a drawing to win a pair of VIP tickets to an official 13 album launch event in London, including a meet and greet with the band, flights and accommodation Additional details and full terms and conditions on the contest can be found at Blacksabbath.com.
In the video below, Rick Rubin talks about creating the group’s first studio album since 1978’s Never Say Die!
BLACK SABBATH‘s new album, “13” — the first in 35 years to feature bassist Geeezer Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi and singer Ozzy Osbourne — will be released on June 11 via Vertigo/Universal Republic in the U.S. and Vertigo in all other territories. The drum tracks on the group’s first LP with Osbourne since 1978 were laid down by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE sticksman Brad Wilk following original drummer Bill Ward‘s decision to bow out of the reunion.
Osbourne, Iommi and Butler recorded the album primarily in Los Angeles with producer Rick Rubin. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include three seven-plus-minute behemoths “End Of The Beginning”, “God Is Dead” and “Epic”, as well as a track about killing pedophile priests (“Dear Father”) and another about the scourge of methamphetamine addiction (“Methademic”).
Beginning today, “13” will be available for pre-order on a variety of formats via BlackSabbath.com.
Options include:
* Standard CD album
* Deluxe double CD album in a deluxe soft-pack (includes a second disc of exclusive bonus audio material)
* Vinyl: a 12-inch heavyweight (180g) vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve
* Super Deluxe Box Set: a limited-edition 12-inch clamshell box set which contains: deluxe double CD album, 12-inch heavyweight (180g) vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve, exclusive DVD containing “Black Sabbath – The Reunion” documentary, plus five behind-the-scenes videos, download card containing exclusive track by track interview with BLACK SABBATH, “13” exclusive photographic prints and handwritten album lyrics.
In addition, anyone who pre-orders any of these formats via BlackSabbath.com will be entered into a drawing to win a pair of VIP tickets to an official “13” album launch event in London, including a meet-and-greet with the band, flights and accommodation Additional details and full terms and conditions on the contest can be found at BlackSabbath.com.
Long-running Venice Beach, California thrash/punk band SUICIDAL TENDENCIES will release a new album, “13”, on March 26.
A teaser for the CD’s first video, “Cyco Style”, directed by Pep Williams, can be seen below.
The first leg of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES‘ “Slam City” tour starts April 11 at the Regency Ballroom in San Franscisco and ends May 12 in San Diego at House Of Blues. All dates will see WAKE THE DEAD open. D.R.I. will support from Minneapolis to Charleston and SICK OF IT ALL will be join SUICIDAL TENDENCIES in Philadelphia, New York, Worchester, Baltimore, and from St. Petersburg until the end of the tour.
When asked why he thinks the sound of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES has stood the test of time, the band’s frotnman, Mike Muir, told Loudwire in a 2012 interview, “I think for us, when we started we didn’t really know what we were doing. We didn’t really set out and try to do something for other people. We stood there and did what we liked. We didn’t care what other people thought. After we did our first record, one of my good friends came up to me and said, ‘Yo, Mike, I got to talk to you. People aren’t going to like the album. It’s not music. You have an opportunity to make music that people can listen to on the radio.’ But I didn’t think that was an opportunity because I didn’t like what I was hearing on the radio. Our barometer is not what people are going to think or how many records we can sell. We just want to be proud of what we make. That’s why it stands the test of time. We did records that we thought were really good.”
On the topic of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES‘ plans to release a new studio album, Muir said, “We’ve always had new music in the works. Now it’s actually to the point that we have some that we’re ready to put out. Now is the time to put out a new record and we feel really, really good about it. There will definitely be a record out this year.
Regarding what fans can expect from the upcoming CD, Muir said, “The way we look at it is that next year will be the 30th anniversary of our first record. When we look at a record, we don’t want to have it sound like 2012. We want it to sound awesome 25 years from now, so when a kid who wasn’t even born when we made it listens to it, he’s like, ‘Damn, that’s a cool record!’ I just had a guy from a radio station tell me that some listeners have been requesting the new song ‘Institutionalized’. The young listeners don’t realize that’s an old song! Something like [METALLICA‘s recent Orion Music + More festival] is good for us, too, because a lot of people who wouldn’t have listened to us will check us out because they know Robert [Trujillo, METALLICA bassist] was in the band.”
Legendary heavy metal band BLACK SABBATH will release its much-anticipated new album, “13”, in June via Vertigo/Universal Republic in the U.S. and Vertigo in all other territories. The drum tracks on the group’s first LP with Ozzy Osbourne since 1978 were laid down by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE sticksman Brad Wilk following original drummer Bill Ward‘s decision to bow out of the reunion.
Osbourne, Tony Iommi (guitar) and Geezer Butler (bass) recorded the album primarily in Los Angeles with producer Rick Rubin. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include “God Is Dead”, “End Of The Beginning” and “Age Of Reason”, the latter two of which stretch out to as long as eight minutes.
A full behind-the-scenes video from the “13” recording sessions will be released tomorrow. In the meantime, check out a 30-second teaser below.
“I wanted to make an album that stood alongside their first four albums,” Rubin tells RollingStone.com. “The first album wasn’t a straightforward heavy metal record. You could hear the jazz influence, so that was the goal, and to capture that live interaction.”
Ward in May 2012 announced again that he was declining to join his former bandmates for its scheduled 2012 dates, as well as the recording of the new album, due to a contractual dispute. After SABBATH shot down Rubin‘s suggestion to replace Ward with Ginger Baker (CREAM) (“I thought, ‘Bloody hell?'” Iommi tells the magazine. “I just couldn’t see that.”), Rick suggested Wilk.
Iommi tells RollingStone.com that Ward‘s demands came out of the blue. “I didn’t know Bill was having these issues when we got together — he never even mentioned it to us,” he says. “It was quite confusing. We wanted him involved, but it was just getting too hard.” Adds Osbourne: “You can’t go, ‘Well, I don’t like it.’ You get off your ass and get your shit together. The life of a bohemian rock star is fucking long over.”
Iommi was diagnosed with cancer at the end of 2011, and his treatments forced BLACK SABBATH to cancel all but three tour dates in 2012 after announcing their reunion in November 2011.
“Things are fairly good, dare I say, at the moment,” Iommi tells RollingStone.com. “I’m still here and it’s okay. We had to do this album now. Christ, if it happened in another 10 years, I don’t know if we’d be around.”
Osbourne, who describes the new SABBATH album as “Satanic blues,” also spoke about one of the band’s new tracks, the provocatively titled “God Is Dead”. “It starts off, ‘God is dead,'” Osbourne says, “but at the end it says, ‘I don’t believe that God is dead.'”
Legendary heavy metal band BLACK SABBATH will release its much-anticipated new album, “13”, in June via Vertigo/Universal Republic in the U.S. and Vertigo in all other territories. The drum tracks on the group’s first LP with Ozzy Osbourne since 1978 were laid down by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE sticksman Brad Wilk following original drummer Bill Ward‘s decision to bow out of the reunion.
Osbourne, Tony Iommi (guitar) and Geezer Butler (bass) recorded the album primarily in Los Angeles with producer Rick Rubin. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include “God Is Dead”, “End Of The Beginning” and “Age Of Reason”, the latter two of which stretch out to as long as eight minutes.
A full behind-the-scenes video from the “13” recording sessions will be released tomorrow. In the meantime, check out a 30-second teaser below.
“I wanted to make an album that stood alongside their first four albums,” Rubin tells RollingStone.com. “The first album wasn’t a straightforward heavy metal record. You could hear the jazz influence, so that was the goal, and to capture that live interaction.”
Ward in May 2012 announced again that he was declining to join his former bandmates for its scheduled 2012 dates, as well as the recording of the new album, due to a contractual dispute. After SABBATH shot down Rubin‘s suggestion to replace Ward with Ginger Baker (CREAM) (“I thought, ‘Bloody hell?'” Iommi tells the magazine. “I just couldn’t see that.”), Rick suggested Wilk.
Iommi tells RollingStone.com that Ward‘s demands came out of the blue. “I didn’t know Bill was having these issues when we got together — he never even mentioned it to us,” he says. “It was quite confusing. We wanted him involved, but it was just getting too hard.” Adds Osbourne: “You can’t go, ‘Well, I don’t like it.’ You get off your ass and get your shit together. The life of a bohemian rock star is fucking long over.”
Iommi was diagnosed with cancer at the end of 2011, and his treatments forced BLACK SABBATH to cancel all but three tour dates in 2012 after announcing their reunion in November 2011.
“Things are fairly good, dare I say, at the moment,” Iommi tells RollingStone.com. “I’m still here and it’s okay. We had to do this album now. Christ, if it happened in another 10 years, I don’t know if we’d be around.”
Osbourne, who describes the new SABBATH album as “Satanic blues,” also spoke about one of the band’s new tracks, the provocatively titled “God Is Dead”. “It starts off, ‘God is dead,'” Osbourne says, “but at the end it says, ‘I don’t believe that God is dead.'”
Legendary heavy metal band BLACK SABBATH will release its much-anticipated new album, “13”, in June via Vertigo/Universal Republic in the U.S. and Vertigo in all other territories. The drum tracks on the group’s first LP with Ozzy Osbourne since 1978 were laid down by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE sticksman Brad Wilk following original drummer Bill Ward‘s decision to bow out of the reunion.
Osbourne, Tony Iommi (guitar) and Geezer Butler (bass) recorded the album primarily in Los Angeles with producer Rick Rubin. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include “God Is Dead”, “End Of The Beginning” and “Age Of Reason”, the latter two of which stretch out to as long as eight minutes.
A full behind-the-scenes video from the “13” recording sessions will be released tomorrow. In the meantime, check out a 30-second teaser below.
“I wanted to make an album that stood alongside their first four albums,” Rubin tells RollingStone.com. “The first album wasn’t a straightforward heavy metal record. You could hear the jazz influence, so that was the goal, and to capture that live interaction.”
Ward in May 2012 announced again that he was declining to join his former bandmates for its scheduled 2012 dates, as well as the recording of the new album, due to a contractual dispute. After SABBATH shot down Rubin‘s suggestion to replace Ward with Ginger Baker (CREAM) (“I thought, ‘Bloody hell?'” Iommi tells the magazine. “I just couldn’t see that.”), Rick suggested Wilk.
Iommi tells RollingStone.com that Ward‘s demands came out of the blue. “I didn’t know Bill was having these issues when we got together — he never even mentioned it to us,” he says. “It was quite confusing. We wanted him involved, but it was just getting too hard.” Adds Osbourne: “You can’t go, ‘Well, I don’t like it.’ You get off your ass and get your shit together. The life of a bohemian rock star is fucking long over.”
Iommi was diagnosed with cancer at the end of 2011, and his treatments forced BLACK SABBATH to cancel all but three tour dates in 2012 after announcing their reunion in November 2011.
“Things are fairly good, dare I say, at the moment,” Iommi tells RollingStone.com. “I’m still here and it’s okay. We had to do this album now. Christ, if it happened in another 10 years, I don’t know if we’d be around.”
Osbourne, who describes the new SABBATH album as “Satanic blues,” also spoke about one of the band’s new tracks, the provocatively titled “God Is Dead”. “It starts off, ‘God is dead,'” Osbourne says, “but at the end it says, ‘I don’t believe that God is dead.'”
According to an update from KAMELOT, the band’s November 23rd show in Gothemburg, Sweden is open to fans 13 years-old and over (All Ages). This will be the band’s first time playing in Gothenburg. Go to this location to purchase tickets.
The band’s European tour schedule is as follows.
November
2 – Eindhoven, Netherlands – Effenaar
3 – Pratteln, Switzerland – Z7
4 – Paris, France – Le Bataclan
5 – Stuttgart, Germany – LKA/Longhorn
6 – Antwerp, Belgium – Trix
7 – London, UK – HMV Forum
9 – Barcelona, Spain – Sala Razzmatazz 2
10 – Lorca, Spain – Metal Lorca Festival
11 – Madrid, Spain – Sala Caracol
13 – Bologna, Italy – Estragon
14 – Vienna, Austria – Szene
15 – Praha, Czech Republic – KC Vltavska
16 – Berlin, Germany – C-Club
17 – Geiselwind – Musichall
18 – Cologne – Essigfabrik
20 – Hamburg – Markthalle
21 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
22 – Stockholm, Sweden – Göta Källare
23 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Trädgarn
24 – Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene
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