BLACK SABBATH has posted online several hand-written lyrics from their latest album “13”; “Peace Of Mind”, “End Of The Beginning”, “Live Forever”, “Age Of Reason”, “Methademic” and the Grammy-nominated Best Rock Song “God Is Dead?”, check them out below:
Also check out recently unvealed “God Is Dead?”
Source: Blabbermouth.net
BLACK SABBATH made a rare television appearance when the band performed a new song on the season finale of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”. The episode aired on May 15 on CBS-TV. The band world premiered a song called “End Of The Beginning” from their new album “13”.
You can now watch the full-length “End Of The Beginning” performance below.
The episode’s plot followed the CSI team as they investigated a series of murder that resembled the sins in “Dante’s Inferno”, with the trail leading the detectives played by Ted Danson and Marc Vann to attend a SABBATH concert.
“I’m not an actor,” said SABBATH singer Ozzy Osbourne. “It’s like a hurry-up-and-wait. When you see it on TV, it’s all done, but when you’re filming, there’s a lot of stuff going on.”
He added about the band’s return to the spotlight: “It’s been a long time, but the wait has been well worth it, ’cause the album is really good. I’m really pleased with the outcome.
“It’s good fun and it’s a good way of telling people that we’re back together, you know?”
“13” was released on June 11 and is the first SABBATH album in 35 years to feature Ozzy, bassist Geezer Butler and guitarist Tony Iommi.
Ozzy told an Australian radio station that the new album is “mindblowing,” adding, “It’s better than my wildest dreams; it’s so good.”
The drum tracks on the album were laid down by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE sticksman Brad Wilk following original drummer Bill Ward‘s decision to bow out of the reunion.
“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” concluded its 13th season and regularly wins its time period with nearly 12 million viewers per episode.
It is also a global ratings hit, earning the International TV Audience Award for the “most-watched show in the world” for the third consecutive year and its fifth time in seven years.
Source: Blabbermouth.net
The studio version of the new BLACK SABBATH song “End Of The Beginning” from their upcoming album “13” was premiered earlier today (Friday, May 31) on the Chilean radio station Futuro 88.9 FM and can now be streamed on the radio station’s web site. The band performed the track on the season finale of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” on May 15 on CBS-TV.
“13”, the first BLACK SABBATH record in 35 years to feature singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler all playing together, is due out June 11 on Vertigo/Republic. This marks BLACK SABBATH‘s return to Vertigo, their original label, and the group’s first studio album together since 1978’s “Never Say Die!”
Details of the album’s deluxe edition surfaced on April 19, with the band revealing that the eight-song effort will be accompanied by three bonus tracks called “Methademic”, “Peace Of Mind” and “Pariah”.
Several versions of “13” are available for pre-order, including a standard CD, a double CD that includes a second disc of exclusive bonus audio, a heavyweight vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve and a “Super Deluxe Box Set” containing the double CD, the vinyl album, an exclusive DVD documentary on the band’s reunion, 13 photographic prints and hand-written lyrics.
“13” track listing:
01. End Of The Beginning (8:05)
02. God Is Dead? (8:52)
03. Loner (4:59)
04. Zeitgeist (4:37)
05. Age Of Reason (7:01)
06. Live Forever (4:46)
07. Damaged Soul (7:51)
08. Dear Father (7:20)
Deluxe-edition bonus tracks:
09. Methademic (5:57)
10. Peace Of Mind (3:40)
11. Pariah (5:34)
Total running time (with bonus tracks): 68 minutes, 42 seconds
The drum tracks on the album 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 went on the BBC in England to discuss the band’s new single, “God Is Dead?” and the inspiration behind the track. Ozzy explained, “I was in somebody’s office and there was a magazine on a table and it just said, ‘God Is Dead’, and I suddenly thought about 9/11 and all these terrorist things and religion and how many people have died in the name of religion. When you think about the tragedy that’s happened throughout time, it just came in my head. You’d think by now that their God would have stopped people dying in the name of, so I just starting thinking that people must be thinking, ‘Where is God? God is dead’ and it just hit me.”
Ozzy added that the question mark at the end of the title is his way of showing that he’s not sure about the answer himself, saying, “At the end of the thing, there’s still a bit of hope because there I sing that I don’t believe that God is dead. It’s just a question of when you see so many dreadful people killing each other with bombs, and blowing the tube trains up and the World Trade Center.”
Ozzy told an Australian radio station that “13” is “mind-blowing,” adding, “It’s better than my wildest dreams; it’s so good.”
SABBATH kicked off its world tour in support of “13” on April 20 in Auckland.
“God Is Dead?” audio stream:
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