The production is very rough I agree. The guitars almost sound scooped.

This list reminds me how Darkness Descends is weirdly ignored on the internet. In real life, it's hard to find someone that doesn't love that album, but on the internet, DD is greatly overshadowed by other albums like Spectrum of Death. I think that's because DD itself was overshadowed in its day by the other great '86 thrash releases and that's just continued to this day.

https://wolvesinsheepskin.bandcamp.c...m/lizard-of-ox
https://queensofshiva.bandcamp.com/releases

**** yes, another Sabatoge lover.

I was also going to mention Sabotage. Give me some credit too.

Popeye porn.

You've heard way less than 0.25% of the music I've played/made over the last
4+ decades. :banghead:

Exactly what is "prepared piano". Actually liked the track Release.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_piano

It's when you alter the piano's sound by adding stuff to the strings. John Cale did it in the VU in All Tomorrow's Parties and Briano Eno did it on Music for Airports (and possibly more). In Queens of Shiva, we used cymbals, pens, and paperclips on the grand piano's strings to give it a percussive sound.

Both of those albums blatantly rip Coltrane off to the max.

How much of Frownie's music have you heard?

lol I just clicked that link.

Exactly what I expected.

Loaded question.

https://media.tenor.com/images/4c349...b05f/tenor.gif

I did have that misfortune, yes.

Blame Mesa Boogie. So many players abused their on-board EQ. Look familier?

https://triptopine.files.wordpress.c...2/img_1810.jpg

I blame Dimebag. Dude's tone sounds like a piece of paper ripping on their first two. It sounds cool, but it's grating after a while.

Blame Randall amps then. I have no clue why he chose to use such ****ty solid state amps other than he got them for free.

http://images.equipboard.com/uploads...g?v=1473799728

What are you on about? Most guitar players scoop their mid-range.

wtf is a Randall amp? Everybody in metal (thrash and death metal anyway) uses like the same two amps, one of them being Marshalls. I can count with one hand the number of times I've heard of a guitar player in those genres using something else. Zero.

Also I love how that picture calls him by his old name Diamond Darrell. :laughing:

A lot of metal players simply way overdid it for a long period.

Hell yeah!

Hole In The Sky
Symptom of the Universe
Megalomania


:pimp:

Sabotage is the best Sabbath album, I agree.

For me it's:

Master Of Reality(as perfect as metal can possibly get in 1971 IMO, and complete stoned tracks too! Sleep/Kyuss all over this sexy bitch) :D
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (even for just the title track, but Spiral Architect is one of the best songs of all time IMO)
Sabotage
Paranoid
Black Sabbath


> Then everything else


btw, do we have a specifically Sabbath-related thread here? :beer:

Yeah right

Does anyone rank Heaven and Hell in the top 3?

Love the RJD era but it's like a completely different band for me. I almost don't even think of it as Sabbath.

Ozzy is to Sabbath what Gillan was to Purple, and Plant was to Zeppelin.

Each, an incredibly unique and individual instrument that helped 'make' the classic sound of the bands that created the foundation of popular heavy metal IMO.

*fixed

*Gillan

Same, it's a great record but Sabbath? it's practically a Dio album with special guests :rofl:

Yeah except those special guests were founding members of Black Sabbath.

....which makes it all that more confusing :(

My top 3 is:

1. Heaven & Hell
2. Mob Rules
3. Never Say Die

... then some of those 80's albums no one cares about. Seventh Star is especially nice in my opinion.

I do like the pre-Never Say Die Ozzy albums to some extent, but they're very uneven to me. I could assemble one killer album out of those discs though.
Take You Won't Change Me, for example. Killer song, but overall, I find Technical Ecstasy to be sort of meh.

I don't know about anyone else but this riff from Iron Man gets me every time:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...HJdJoZ2wOAn9Tv

Also the outro!

That's Oyl.

I'm sorry I'm not an expert in early 20th century hentai.

^The above exchange is classic MB off-topicitis.

I cannot recognize Sabotage as a legit choice for best Sabbath record.

Don't start.

Come on m8.