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Subject: www.blacksabbath.com Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:18 am
It's official as of 11-11-11 that the mighty Sabbath has re-united with the original lineup. Also a new official website http://www.blacksabbath.com/
On the exact anniversary of the Armistice and where Veterans Day and Remembrance Day across the world is observed to honor our troops, Black Sabbath chose that time to confirm all of this year's crazy rumors that, yes, they are getting back together. What we know so far:
- The classic Ozzy/Iommi/Butler/Ward lineup is back together for the first time since 2006.
- There will be a new studio album, produced by Rick Rubin.
- Sabbath will headline the 2012 Download Festival in England.
- A full world tour is imminent.
It's hard to imagine that the Sabbath reunion will prove to be as creatively reinvigorating for Iommi and Butler as Heaven and Hell with Ronnie James Dio was, and the thought of Ozzy's auto-tune all over a new Sabbath record is a little off-putting, but to be honest, any day the most influential heavy metal band gets back together for one more kick at the can is a very, very good day. Let's just hope they play a few rarely-heard tracks alongside the usual live staples. A couple off Sabotage, maybe?
Heres the full "video announcement" that was posted a short while ago:
After much speculation, the original four members of BLACK SABBATH--OZZY OSBOURNE (vocals), TONY IOMMI (guitar), GEEZER BUTLER (bass) and BILL WARD (drums)--have reunited to record their first new studio album in 33 years with producer Rick Rubin (seven-time Grammy winner, two of those as Producer of the Year) and to embark on a massive world tour in 2012.
OSBOURNE, IOMMI, BUTLER and WARD as well as Rubin all gathered today on 11/11/11 to announce the news at a Los Angeles press conference at the legendary club, the Whisky A Go-Go, the site of the groundbreaking and influential band’s first L.A. concert exactly 41 years ago (Nov 11, 1970). The event was hosted by the revered musical and spoken word artist Henry Rollins who has said that “Any band worth their weight in napalm wishes they had written ‘War Pigs.’”
Selling over 70 million albums together, the Grammy-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees have signed a new record deal worldwide with Vertigo and Vertigo/ Universal Republic in the U.S., the band’s original label. BLACK SABBATH is now in the studio recording the as-yet-untitled new album for release in the fall of 2012 (exact date TBA). It will mark their ninth studio album together and their first since 1978’s Never Say Die!
Next summer, BLACK SABBATH will headline the mammoth multi-day UK Download Festival in the U.K. on June 10. The new album will then be supported with a worldwide headline arena tour (dates TBA).
BLACK SABBATH also announced today the launch of www.blacksabbath.com, the first-ever official BLACK SABBATH website for all authorized BLACK SABBATH news. In addition, the band’s online presence will also be supported by social media via Facebook and Twitter--again, marking the band’s first-ever foray into the social media world.
BLACK SABBATH released their self-titled debut album in 1970. “Black Sabbath is credited with creating heavy metal,” according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “The success of their first two albums--Black Sabbath and Paranoid--marked a paradigm shift in the world of rock. Not until Black Sabbath upended the music scene did the term ‘heavy metal’ enter the popular vocabulary to describe the denser, more thunderous offshoot of rock over which they presided.” The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame also noted, “…they remain one of the most misunderstood bands in rock history,” adding: “The band’s musicality was generally overlooked, but they possessed an inventiveness and fluency that, in hindsight, makes them seem as much of a progressive-rock band as a heavy-metal one.”
In 1998, BLACK SABBATH released Reunion from their 1997 concerts in Birmingham, England, a two-CD live set that featured two new studio songs. The band has also sporadically reunited for shows in 1999, 2002 and 2004; in 2005, the four performed concerts together when they toured Europe and then headlined the 10th anniversary of Osbourne’s namesake festival OZZfest. Also in 2005, they were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame by Brian May of Queen. This was followed by their induction in 2006 into the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an honor bestowed on them by Metallica’s James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
TrogDawn Janitor of the Void
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:00 pm
Jeffdls FLINTSTONER
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:16 pm
oldschooldoom Mattafakka
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:01 pm
To quote Trog, "I love the music of the original lineup, period." And add +1
TrogDawn Janitor of the Void
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:01 pm
ultmetal Cap'n Caveman!!!
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:12 am
I anxiously await a new studio album from the masters of metal!
oldschooldoom Mattafakka
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:08 am
2012 tour dates:
May 18 - Moscow, Russia (Olimpiski) May 20 - St. Petersburg, Russia (New Arena) May 23 - Helsinki, Finland (Hartwall Arena) May 25 - Stockholm, Sweden (Stadium) May 29 - Bergen, Norway (Bergen Calling Festival) May 31 - Oslo, Norway (Spektrum) Jun 2 - Malmo, Sweden (Malmo Stadium) Jun 4 - Dortmund, Germany (Westfalenhalle) Jun 10 - Donnington, UK (Download Festival) Jun 12 - Rotterdam, Holland (Ahoy) Jun 15 - Bilbao, Spain (Azkena Rock Festival) Jun 17 - Nantes, France (Hellfest Festival) Jun 19 - Paris, France (Bercy) Jun 22 - Dessel, Belgium (Graspop Metal Meeting) Jun 24 - Milan, Italy (Gods of Metal Festival)
TrogDawn Janitor of the Void
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:57 am
oldschooldoom wrote:
2012 tour dates:
Jun 17 - Nantes, France (Hellfest Festival)
I'll be at this one on my honeymoon!
Addy Cap'n Caveman!!!
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:19 am
Is your fiance a Sabbath fan bro?
_Wes What is the Matrix?
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:53 pm
cool news.
Hope they come to FL!!
TrogDawn Janitor of the Void
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:11 pm
Addy wrote:
Is your fiance a Sabbath fan bro?
Not the way I am, but she likes 'em. We've already seen Pentagram together and hung out at Victor's place in TN too, so she's on board
Addy Cap'n Caveman!!!
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:48 pm
I didnt even know you were engaged till facebook congrats
I didnt think id be dating anytime soon but i am in fact i drove 45 mins to her to change a flat
TrogDawn Janitor of the Void
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:21 pm
Addy wrote:
I didnt even know you were engaged till facebook congrats
Thanks, matey!
Addy wrote:
I didnt think id be dating anytime soon but i am in fact i drove 45 mins to her to change a flat
Uh oh...you're fucked!
oldschooldoom Mattafakka
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Subject: Re: www.blacksabbath.com Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:26 am
And in the end, when it was all said and done 3 out of 4 members performed just the following 3 shows:
May 19, 2012 - Birmingham June 10, 2012 - Download Festival August 3, 2012 - Lollapalooza Festival