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Born Again | ||||
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Released | 7 August 1983 | |||
Recorded | May 1983 | |||
Studio | The Manor Studio, Shipton on Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England | |||
Genre | Heavy metal | |||
Length | 41:04 | |||
Label | Vertigo Warner Bros.(US/Canada) | |||
Producer | Black Sabbath, Robin Black | |||
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Born Again is the 11th studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, which was released in August of 1983. It is the only album the group recorded with lead vocalist Ian Gillan, best known for his work with Deep Purple. It was also the last Black Sabbath album for nine years to feature original bassist Geezer Butler, and the last to feature drummer Bill Ward until he played the studio tracks on their 1998 live album Reunion. The album has received mixed to negative reviews from critics,[1] but it was a commercial success upon its 1983 release, reaching No. 4 in the UK charts.[2] The album also hit the top 40 in the United States.[3]
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Origins[edit]
Following the departure of vocalist Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice in 1982, Sabbath's future was in doubt. The band switched management to Don Arden (Sharon Osbourne's father) and he suggested Ian Gillan as the new vocalist.[4] 'That band was put together on paper,' guitarist Tony Iommi revealed in the 1992 documentary Black Sabbath: 1978–1992. 'We'd never rehearsed.'
The band had considered vocalists such as Robert Plant and David Coverdale before settling on Gillan.[5] They even received an audition tape from the then-unknown Michael Bolton.[4] Iommi told Hit Parader magazine in 1983 that Gillan was the best candidate, saying 'His shriek is legendary.'
Gillan was at first reluctant, but his manager convinced him to meet with Iommi and Butler at The Bear pub in Oxford. After a night of heavy drinking,[4] Gillan officially committed to the project in February 1983.[6]
The project was intended to be a supergroup, not billed as Sabbath[4] but Arden insisted they use the name.[4] 'We thought we were doing a kind of Gillan-Iommi-Butler-Ward album…' recalled bassist Geezer Butler. 'That is the way we approached the album. When we had finished the album, we took it to the record company and they said, 'Well, here's the contract: it is going to go out as a Black Sabbath album.'[7]
Born Again featured the return of founding member Bill Ward on drums, who had left the band in 1980 and was newly sober.[8] Ward has said that he enjoyed making the album.[9] It was also his final studio album with the band.
Recording[edit]
Sabbath began recording in May 1983 at Richard Branson's Manor Studio, in the Oxfordshire countryside.[10] Producer Robin Black had worked with the band in the mid-1970s, as engineer on Sabotage.
In his autobiography, Iommi recounts Gillan informing him that, during sessions, he planned to live outside the house in a marquee tent: 'I thought he was joking, but when I arrived at the Manor I saw this marquee outside and I thought, fucking hell, he's serious. Ian had put up this big, huge tent. It had a cooking area and a bedroom and whatever else.' Gillan brought an immediacy to the songwriting that was uncommon for Sabbath: 'Ian's lyrics were about sexual things or true facts, even about stuff that happened at The Manor there and then,' Iommi recalls in his memoir. 'They were good, but quite a departure from Geezer's and Ronnie's lyrics.' For example, Gillan returned from a local pub one evening, took a car belonging to drummer Ward, and commenced racing around a go-cart track on the Manor Studio property. He crashed the car, which burst into flames after he escaped uninjured. He wrote the album's opening 'Trashed' about the experience.[4] 'Disturbing the Priest' was written after a rehearsal space set up by Iommi in a small building near a local church received noise complaints from the resident priests.[4]
'We wanted this effect on 'Disturbing the Priest',' recalled Iommi, 'and Bill got this big bucket of water and he got this anvil. It was really heavy, and he'd got it hanging on a piece of rope and lower it in to get this effect: hit it and lower it in, and then lift it out again. It was a great effect, but it took hours to do.'[11]
Although the band got along well, it became apparent to all involved that Gillan's style did not quite mesh with the Sabbath sound. In 1992, Gillan told director Martin Baker, 'I was the worst singer Black Sabbath ever had. It was totally, totally incompatible with any music they'd ever done. I didn't wear leathers, I wasn't of that image...I think the fans probably were in a total state of confusion.' In 1992, Iommi admitted to Guitar World, 'Ian is a great singer, but he's from a completely different background, and it was difficult for him to come in and sing Sabbath material.'
When the band heard the final product they were horrified at the muffled mix. In his autobiography, Iommi explains that Gillan inadvertently blew a couple of tweeters in the studio speakers by playing the backing tracks too loud and nobody noticed. 'We just thought it was a bit of a funny sound, but it went very wrong somewhere between the mix and the mastering and the pressing of that album...the sound was really dull and muffly. I didn't know about it, because we were already out on tour in Europe. By the time we heard the album, it was out and in the charts, but the sound was awful.'
For all his misgivings, Gillan remembers the period fondly, stating in the Black Sabbath: 1978–1992 documentary, 'But by God, we had a good year...And the songs, I think, were quite good.'
Album cover[edit]
The album's cover was cursorily by Steve 'Krusher' Joule, based on a black-and-white photocopy of a baby photo published in a 1968 magazine.[12] Martin Popoff described the creature on the cover as a 'garish red devil-baby'. Bill Ward has said that he personally hated the album's cover and according to him, Ian Gillan told the press that he vomited when he first saw it. However, Tony Iommi approved the album cover,[13] which has been considered one of the worst ever.[1] Ben Mitchell of Blender called the cover 'awful'.[14] The British magazine, Kerrang!, ranked the cover in second place, behind only the Scorpions' Lovedrive, on their list of '10 Worst Album Sleeves in Metal/Hard Rock'. The list was based on votes from the magazine's readers.[15]NME included the sleeve on their list of the '29 sickest album covers ever'.[16] Black Sabbath's manager, Don Arden, was quite hostile towards the band's ex-vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, who had recently married his daughter Sharon,[17] and he was fond of telling Osbourne that his children resembled the Born Again album cover.[17]
Release and reception[edit]
Professional ratings | |
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Blender | [14] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [18] |
Metal Forces | (8/10)[19] |
Martin Popoff | [20] |
Born Again was released in August 1983[1] and was a commercial success. It was the highest charting Black Sabbath album in the United Kingdom since Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) and became an American Top 40 hit.[21] Despite this, it became the first Black Sabbath album to not have any RIAA certification in the US. The album received mixed to negative reviews upon its release.[22]AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia wrote that the album has 'gone down as one of heavy metal's all-time greatest disappointments' and described 'Zero the Hero', 'Hot Line', and 'Keep It Warm' as 'embarrassing'.[1]Blender contributor Ben Mitchell gave the album one out of five stars and claimed that the music on Born Again was worse than its cover.[14] Martin Charles Strong, the author of The Essential Rock Discography, wrote that it was 'an exercise in heavy-metal cliché'.[23] However, Popmatters contributor Adrien Begrand has noted the album as 'overlooked'.[22] The British magazine Metal Forces defined it 'a very good album' even if 'Gillan may not be the perfect frontman for the Sabs'.[19]
Despite the overall negative reception with critics, the album remains a fan favorite. Author Martin Popoff has written that 'if any album in the history of Black Sabbath is getting a new set of horns up from metalheads here deep into the new century, it's Born Again.'[6]Death metal band Cannibal Corpse have covered 'Zero the Hero' on the Hammer Smashed Face EP, and the group's former singer, Chris Barnes, has called Born Again his favourite Black Sabbath album.[24] 'Zero the Hero' has also been cited as the inspiration for the Guns N' Roses hit 'Paradise City',[25] and in his autobiography Iommi also suggests the Beastie Boys may have borrowed the riff from 'Hot Line' for their hit '(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)'. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has called Born Again 'one of the best Black Sabbath albums'.[26]Bill Stevenson, former drummer of Black Flag, stated the band was listening to the album around the time of My War, defining songs like 'Trashed' and 'Disturbing the Priest' as 'ideal'.[27]
In 1984, Ozzy Osbourne stated that the album was the 'best thing I've heard from Sabbath since the original group broke up'.[28] In 1992 Iommi confessed to Guitar World, 'To be honest, I didn't like some of the songs on that album—and the production was awful. We never had time to test the pressings after it was recorded, and something happened to it by the time it got released.'
A re-mastered 'Deluxe Expanded Edition' of Born Again was released in May 2011, which included several live tracks from the 1983 Reading Festival originally featured on BBC Radio 1's Friday Rock Show.[29] Though the release was remastered, it was not remixed.
Born Again Tour and Stonehenge props[edit]
According to Iommi's autobiography, Ward began drinking again near the end of the Born Again recording sessions and returned to Los Angeles for treatment. The band recruited Bev Bevan, who had played with The Move and ELO,[30] for the upcoming tour in support of the new album. Gillan had all the lyrics to the Sabbath songs written out and plastered all over the stage, explaining to Martin Baker in 1992, 'I couldn't get into my brain any of these lyrics...I cannot soak in these words. There's no storyline. I can't relate to what they mean.' Gillan attempted to overcome the problem by having a cue book with plastic pages on stage, which he would turn with his foot during the show. However, Gillan did not anticipate the 'six buckets' of dry ice that engulfed the stage, making it impossible for the singer to see the lyric sheets. 'Ian wasn't very sure-footed either,' Iommi writes in his memoir. 'He once fell over my pedal board. He was waving at the people, stepped back and, bang!, he went arse over head big time.' Gillan also told Birch that it was Don Arden's idea to open the show with a crying baby blaring over the speakers and a dwarf made to look exactly like the demonic baby depicted on the Born Again album cover miming to the screaming. 'We noticed a dwarf walking around the day before the opening show...And we're saying to Don, 'We think this is in the worst possible taste, this dwarf, you know?' And Don's going, 'Nah, the kids will love it, it'll be great.'
The tour is most infamous, however, for the gigantic Stonehenge props the band used. Iommi recalls in his autobiography that it was Butler's idea but the designers took his measurements the wrong way and thought it was meant to be life-size. Months later, while rehearsing for the tour at the Birmingham NEC, the stage set arrived. 'We were in shock,' writes Iommi. 'This stuff was coming in and in and in. It had all these huge columns in the back that were as wide as your average bedroom, the columns in front were about 13 feet high, and we had all the monitors and the side fills as well as all this rock. It was made of fiberglass and wood, and bloody heavy.' The set would be lampooned in Rob Reiner's 1984 rock music mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, with the band having the opposite problem of having to use miniature Stonehenge stage props. Butler has said that he told the associate scriptwriter of the film the story of the band's performances with their 'Stonehenge' stage props.[31] In an interview for the documentary Black Sabbath: 1978–1992, Gillan claims Don Arden had the dwarf walk across the top of the Stonehenge props at the start of the show and, as the tape of the screaming baby faded away, fall back 'from about thirty-five feet in the air on this big pile of mattresses. And then, 'Dong!' The bells start and the monks come out, the whole thing. Pure Spinal Tap.' The band toured Europe first, playing the Reading Festival (a performance that is included on the 2011 deluxe edition of Born Again) and also playing in a bullring in Barcelona in September. Sabbath performed Gillan's hit with Deep Purple, 'Smoke on the Water', on the tour, with Iommi explaining in his memoir, 'it seemed like a bum deal for him not to do any of his stuff while he was doing all of ours. I don't know if we played it properly but the audience loved it. The critics moaned; it was something out of the bag and they didn't want to know then.' In October, the band took the Stonehenge set to America but could only use a portion of it at most gigs because the columns were too high. The set was eventually abandoned. A music video for 'Zero the Hero' was also released, featuring performance footage of the band onstage interspersed with scenes involving several grotesque characters performing experiments on a witless young man in a haunted house filled with rats, roosters and a roaming horse.
The tour was a breaking point for Butler, who admits in the Black Sabbath: 1978–1992 documentary, 'I just got totally disillusioned with the whole thing and I left some time in 1984 after the Born Again tour. I just had enough of it.' In 2015 Butler clarified to Dave Everley of Classic Rock: 'I left because my second child was born and he was having problems, so I wanted to stay with him. I told Tony I couldn't concentrate on the band anymore. But I never fell out with anybody.'
Track listing[edit]
All songs credited to Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, and Ian Gillan, except where noted.
Side one | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | 'Trashed' | 4:16 |
2. | 'Stonehenge' | 1:58 |
3. | 'Disturbing the Priest' | 5:49 |
4. | 'The Dark' | 0:45 |
5. | 'Zero the Hero' | 7:35 |
Side two | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
6. | 'Digital Bitch' | 3:39 |
7. | 'Born Again' | 6:34 |
8. | 'Hot Line' (Iommi/Butler/Gillan) | 4:52 |
9. | 'Keep It Warm' (Iommi/Butler/Gillan) | 5:36 |
2011 Deluxe Edition Disc 2[edit]
Tracks 3-11 recorded live at the Reading Festival on Saturday, August 27, 1983[32]and first aired on Friday Rock Show via BBC Radio 1.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | 'The Fallen' (previously unreleased album session outtake) | 4:30 |
2. | 'Stonehenge' (extended version) | 4:47 |
3. | 'Hot Line' | 4:55 |
4. | 'War Pigs' (Butler, Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Ward) | 7:25 |
5. | 'Black Sabbath' (Butler, Iommi, Osbourne, Ward) | 7:11 |
6. | 'The Dark' | 1:05 |
7. | 'Zero the Hero' | 6:55 |
8. | 'Digital Bitch' | 3:34 |
9. | 'Iron Man' (Butler, Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Ward) | 7:41 |
10. | 'Smoke on the Water' (Ritchie Blackmore, Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice) | 4:56 |
11. | 'Paranoid' (Butler, Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Ward) | 4:18 |
Personnel[edit]
Black Sabbath
- Ian Gillan – vocals
- Tony Iommi – guitars, guitar effects, flute
- Geezer Butler – bass, bass effects
- Bill Ward – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
- Geoff Nicholls – keyboards
- Bev Bevan – drums (on 2011 Deluxe Edition – Disc 2, tracks 3–11)
- Credits[33]
- Steve Barrett – art assistant
- Black Sabbath – producer
- Robin Black – producer, engineer
- Stephen Chase – engineer, assistant engineer
- Paul Clark – co-ordination
- Hugh Gilmour – liner notes, design, reissue design, original sleeve design
- Ross Halfin – photography
- Steve Joule – artwork, cover design
- Peter Restey – equipment technician
- Ray Staff – remastering
- Chris Walter – photography
Release history[edit]
Region | Date | Label |
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United Kingdom | August 1983 | Vertigo Records |
United States | 4 October 1983 | Warner Bros. Records |
Canada | 1983 | Warner Bros. Records |
United Kingdom | 1996 | Castle Communications |
United Kingdom | 2004 | Sanctuary Records |
Chart performance[edit]
Year | Chart | Position |
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1983 | United Kingdom | 4 |
Finland | 6 | |
Sweden | 7 | |
Norway | 14 | |
Germany | 37 | |
United States | 39 | |
New Zealand | 44 | |
Australia | 53 |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abcdeRivadavia, Eduardo. 'Born Again > Overview'. Allmusic. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
- ^'Gillan the Hero'. Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
- ^'Billboard Top 200'. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
- ^ abcdefgIommi, Tony (2011). Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath. Da Capo Press. ISBN978-0306819551.
- ^Popoff, Martin (2006). Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose: An Illustrated History. ECW press. p. 201. ISBN1-55022-731-9.
- ^ abPopoff, Martin (2006). Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose: An Illustrated History. ECW press. p. 198. ISBN1-55022-731-9.
- ^Swedish TV interview, broadcast April 1994, transcribed by Ola Malmström in Sabbath fanzineSouthern Cross #14, p19, October 1994
- ^Popoff, Martin (2006). Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose: An Illustrated History. ECW press. p. 197. ISBN1-55022-731-9.
- ^Wright, Michael. 'Bill Ward Tells Sabbath Tales and Talks Reunion'. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^Thompson, Dave (2004). Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story. ECW Press. p. 234. ISBN1-55022-618-5.
- ^Scott, Peter (May 1998). 'Tony Iommi Interview'. Southern Cross (Sabbath fanzine) #21. p. 46.
- ^Siegler, Joe. 'Black Sabbath Online: Born Again'. Black Sabbath Online. Archived from the original on 4 January 2012.
...the first image of a baby that I found was from the front cover of a 1968 magazine called Mind Alive [...] we bashed the whole thing out in a night
– Steve Joule interview - ^Popoff, Martin (2006). Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose: An Illustrated History. ECW press. p. 206. ISBN1-55022-731-9.
- ^ abcMitchell, Ben. 'Born Again – Blender'. Blender. Archived from the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^'BLABBERMOUTH.NET – 10 Worst Album Sleeves in Metal/Hard Rock'. Blabbermouth.net. Archived from the original on 27 August 2004. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^'Pictures of NSFW - the 29 sickest album covers ever - Photos - NME.COM'. NME. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ abOsbourne, Ozzy (2011). I Am Ozzy. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN978-0446569903.
- ^'Black Sabbath: Album Guide'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ abBarnell, Graham (1983). 'Black Sabbath – Born Again'. Metal Forces (2). Retrieved 1 July 2012.
- ^Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN978-1-894959-31-5.
- ^Thompson, Dave (2004). Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story. ECW Press. p. 237. ISBN1-55022-618-5.
- ^ abBegrand, Adrien. 'Alice Cooper: Portrait of the Artist as a Burnt-Out Old Man < PopMatters'. PopMatters. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^Strong, Martin Charles (2006). The Essential Rock Discography. Canongate Books Ltd. p. 97. ISBN978-1-84195-827-9.
- ^Mudrian, Albert, ed. (2009). Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces. Da Capo Press. p. 158. ISBN978-0-306-81806-6.
- ^Popoff, Martin (2006). Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose: An Illustrated History. ECW press. p. 210. ISBN1-55022-731-9.
- ^'BLABBERMOUTH.NET – METALLICA's LARS ULRICH: 'Metal Is Like Herpes — It Never Goes Away''. Blabbermouth.net. Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^Blush, Steven; Petros, George (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. p. 73. ISBN9780922915712.
- ^Hogan, Richard.''Is Sabbath turning Purple?''(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 18 December 2005. Retrieved 2012-07-11. . Circus Magazine 02-29-84
- ^http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/black-sabbath-s-born-again-deluxe-expanded-edition-reissue-was-remastered-not-remixed/
- ^Bevan, who was still a member of ELO in 1983, had a long-time relationship with Don Arden, as all of ELO's albums from 1975's Face the Music forward were recorded for Arden's Jet Records label.
- ^Popoff, Martin (2006). Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose: An Illustrated History. ECW press. pp. 215–216. ISBN1-55022-731-9.
- ^'BLACK SABBATH's 'Born Again' Deluxe-Expanded-Edition Reissue: More Details Revealed – Apr. 11, 2011'. Blabbermouth.net. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^'Born Again > Credits'. Allmusic. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
External links[edit]
- Gillan the Hero – Fan site with information on the album and subsequent tour.
Black Sabbath discography | |
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The original Black Sabbath, from left to right: Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne | |
Studio albums | 19 |
Live albums | 6 |
Compilation albums | 12 |
Video albums | 7 |
EPs | 1 |
Singles | 30 |
The discography of Black Sabbath, a British heavy metal band, includes 19 studio albums, six live albums, 12 compilation albums, seven video albums, one extended play and 30 singles. The band was formed in 1968 by John 'Ozzy' Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (lead guitar), Terence 'Geezer' Butler (bass guitar), and Bill Ward (drums). Throughout their history, the band experienced multiple lineup changes.[1] Though the second most recent line-up of the band to work together were Ronnie James Dio, Vinny Appice, Iommi, and Butler, for three new songs for a compilation in 2007, the original line-up was still considered the 'current' lineup at the time and had been since their reunion in 1997. The 2007 sessions were deemed a one-off which led to the Heaven and Hell side project, resulting in a new studio album in 2009 entitled The Devil You Know. In June 2013, a partial reformation of the original line-up released 13, which was the first album to feature Osbourne on vocals since 1978's Never Say Die!. After 49 years together, Black Sabbath announced their breakup in March 2017.[2][3][4][5]
- 1Albums
Albums[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
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UK [6] | AUT [7] | DEN [8] | FIN [9] | GER [10] | NLD [11] | NOR [12] | NZ [13] | SWE [14] | SWI [15] | US [16] | |||
1970 | Black Sabbath
| 8 | — | 9[17] | — | 8 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 23 |
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Paranoid
| 1 | — | 2[21] | — | 2 | 1 | 5 | — | — | — | 12 |
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1971 | Master of Reality
| 5 | — | 4[22] | — | 5 | 10 | 12 | — | — | — | 8 |
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1972 | Vol. 4
| 8 | — | 3[23] | — | 14 | — | 7 | — | — | — | 13 |
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1973 | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
| 4 | — | 4[24] | — | 49 | — | 6 | — | — | — | 11 |
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1975 | Sabotage
| 7 | 9 | 14 | — | 44 | — | 6 | 33 | — | — | 28 |
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1976 | Technical Ecstasy
| 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 33 | — | 51 |
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1978 | Never Say Die!
| 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 37 | — | 69 |
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1980 | Heaven and Hell
| 9 | — | — | — | 37 | — | 22 | 44 | 25 | — | 28 |
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1981 | Mob Rules
| 12 | — | — | — | — | 47 | — | 45 | 30 | — | 29 |
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1983 | Born Again
| 4 | — | — | — | 37 | — | 14 | 44 | 7 | — | 39 | |
1986 | Seventh Star
| 27 | — | — | — | 51 | — | 17 | — | 11 | — | 78 | — |
1987 | The Eternal Idol
| 66 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 168 | — |
1989 | Headless Cross
| 31 | — | — | — | 18 | 71 | — | — | 22 | 23 | 115 | |
1990 | Tyr
| 24 | 24 | — | — | 12 | 77 | — | — | 24 | 24 | — | — |
1992 | Dehumanizer
| 28 | 7 | — | 31 | 14 | 63 | — | — | 12 | 13 | 44 | |
1994 | Cross Purposes
| 41 | 23 | — | — | 32 | 85 | — | — | 9 | 41 | 122 | — |
1995 | Forbidden
| 71 | 40 | — | — | 35 | 86 | — | — | 19 | 48 | — | — |
2013 | 13
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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'—' denotes albums that did not chart. |
Live albums[edit]
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||
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UK [6] | FIN [9] | FRA [29] | GER [10] | NLD [11] | NZ [13] | SWE [14] | US [16] | |||
1982 | Live Evil
| 13 | — | — | 37 | 34 | 34 | 15 | 37 | — |
1995 | Cross Purposes Live
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1998 | Reunion
| 41 | 29 | 65 | 40 | — | — | 11 | 11 |
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2002 | Past Lives
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 114 | — |
2007 | Live at Hammersmith Odeon
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2013 | Live... Gathered in Their Masses
| — | — | 173 | 11 | — | — | — | — |
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2017 | The End: Live in Birmingham
| 68 | 11 [31] | 153 [32] | 2 | 79 | — | 18 [33] | — | |
'—' denotes albums that did not chart. |
Compilation albums[edit]
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||
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UK [6] | AUS [34] | DEN [35] | FIN [9] | NOR [12] | NZ [13] | SWE [14] | US [16] | |||
1975 | We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | 21 | 48 |
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1988 | Blackest Sabbath | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1996 | The Sabbath Stones | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2000 | The Best of Black Sabbath | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2002 | Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2004 | Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2006 | Greatest Hits 1970–1978 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 96 | — |
2007 | Black Sabbath: The Dio Years | 151 [36] | — | — | — | 35 | — | 32 | 54 | — |
2008 | The Rules of Hell | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2009 | Greatest Hits | 19 | — | — | — | — | 12 | 3 | — |
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2012 | Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2016 | The Ultimate Collection | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2017 | The Ten Year War | — | — | — | — | — | — | 45 [37] | — | — |
'—' denotes albums that did not chart. |
Extended plays[edit]
Year | EP details |
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2016 | The End
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Singles[edit]
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | B-side | |||||||
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UK [6] | AUT [7] | CAN [16] | GER [10] | NOR [12] | SWI [15] | US [16] | US Main [16] | ||||
1970 | 'Evil Woman' | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Black Sabbath | 'Wicked World' |
'The Wizard' [A] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 'Evil Woman' | ||
'Paranoid' | 4 [I] | 3 | — | 1 | 6 | 2 | 61 | — | Paranoid | 'The Wizard' | |
1971 | 'Iron Man' [B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | 52 | — | 'Electric Funeral' | |
'Wicked World' [C] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | 'Iron Man' | |
'Children of the Grave' [D] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Master of Reality | 'Solitude' | |
1972 | 'Tomorrow's Dream' | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Vol. 4 | 'Laguna Sunrise' |
1973 | 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 'Changes' |
1975 | 'Am I Going Insane (Radio)' | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Sabotage | 'Hole in the Sky' |
1976 | 'It's Alright' | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Technical Ecstasy | 'Rock N Roll Doctor' |
'Gypsy' [E] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 'She's Gone' | ||
1978 | 'Never Say Die!' | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Never Say Die! | 'She's Gone' |
'Hard Road' | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 'Symptom of the Universe' | ||
1980 | 'Neon Knights' | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Heaven and Hell | 'Children of the Sea' (live) |
'Die Young' | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 'Heaven and Hell' (live) | ||
'Lady Evil' [B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 'Children of the Sea' | ||
1981 | 'The Mob Rules' | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Mob Rules | 'Die Young' (live) |
'Turn Up the Night' [F] | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 24 | 'Lonely Is the Word' | ||
'Voodoo' [airplay] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 46 | |||
1983 | 'Trashed' [B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Born Again | 'Stonehenge' |
1986 | 'No Stranger to Love' | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Seventh Star | 'Angry Heart' |
1987 | 'The Shining' [D] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Eternal Idol | 'Black Moon' |
1989 | 'Headless Cross' | 62 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Headless Cross | 'Cloak and Dagger' |
'Devil and Daughter' [F] | 81[39] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Black Sabbath Interview | ||
'Call of the Wild' [D] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 'Devil and Daughter' | ||
1990 | 'Feels Good to Me' | 79[40] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Tyr | 'Paranoid' (live) |
1992 | 'TV Crimes' | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dehumanizer | 'Letters from Earth' |
'Master of Insanity' [D] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Various live tracks | ||
1998 | 'Psycho Man' [D] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | Reunion | Remix |
1999 | 'Selling My Soul' [promo][B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 17 | ||
2007 | 'The Devil Cried' [airplay] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 38 | The Dio Years | |
2013 | 'God Is Dead?' | 145[41] | — | 79 | 99 | — | — | — | 7 | 13 | |
'End of the Beginning' [promo] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 38 | |||
2014 | 'Age of Reason' [F] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
'—' denotes entries that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
Black Sabbath Discography Torrent
Notes;
- A^ - released in France.
- B^ - released in US/Canada.
- C^ - released in Japan.
- D^ - released in EU.
- E^ - released in Netherlands.
- F^ - released in UK
- I^ - re-issued in 1980 b/w 'Snowblind'. Hit #14
Videos[edit]
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||
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SWE [42] | FIN [43] | AUT [44] | BEL [45] | SWI [46] | NLD [47] | |||
1978 | Never Say Die
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |
1980 | Black and Blue
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |
1991 | The Black Sabbath Story, Vol. 1
| 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
|
1992 | The Black Sabbath Story, Vol. 2
| 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
|
1995 | Cross Purposes Live
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |
1999 | The Last Supper
| 11 | — | — | — | — | — |
|
2013 | Live... Gathered in Their Masses
| 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
|
2017 | The End: Live in Birmingham
| |||||||
'—' denotes albums that did not chart. |
Other releases[edit]
Black Sabbath Rapidshare Discography Spinet
- 1980 – Live at Last (Live from 1973 – Iommi, Osbourne, Butler, Ward); #5 UK. Eventually remastered and officially released as one of the two Past Lives discs.)
- 1985 – The Sabbath Collection (compilation, UK) Gold (UK)
- 1994 – The Ozzy Osbourne Years (3 disc set from Japan, containing all of the songs from the first six studio albums, minus the instrumentals and including 'Evil Woman' in place of 'Wicked World')
- 1996 – The Collection (Contains songs from the first 8 albums.)
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