Black Sabbath’s eagerly awaited new album, entitled 13, will be released on June 11th, but fans are able to get a listen to one of the songs today as the band released the track “God Is Dead” to iheart Radio. Although you have to deal with a few iheart Radio watermarks, you can listen to the track below.
13 marks the first Sabbath studio album to feature Ozzy Osbourne on vocals in 35 years.
The band has also announced 4 US tour dates for the summer:
August:
4: Holmdel, NJ (PNC Bank Arts Center)
14: Toronto, ON (Air Canada Centre)
24: Seattle, WA (Gorge Amphiteatre)
September 3: Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Sports Arena)
Black Sabbath’s 13 is available for pre-order on Amazon NOW! CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER!
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A bit muddy in bass as all studio stuff has been, but I run an equalizer and can fix that. Overall it’s a 7 or 8 out of 10 once I bring Iommi out more. Ozzy sounds strained but OK, doubt he’ll be that good live but shows will be crazy so few will notice. Considering a few years ago I assumed my Sabs collection done, I’m grateful for what Iommi and Dio did live and studio, “Neon Nights” the best live show I can see and hear to remember Dio and awesome Iommi performance. Then his EP with Gillan and company added. Now this, and assume the new album will have several killer songs as each album has. Grateful for Iommi not doubt being the factor in it all coming together in spite of dealing with his illness. Hopefully Ozzy stays straight enough to get through the 4 US shows without cancelling anything. People nit pick, I’m grateful as never expected anything else and instead have multiple CDs and DVDs when I thought it was all over 🙂
Well ,I for one could not be any more proud of the the boys,to be where they are , in this very moment (and thats what we all should be living for , every god damm moment) to have the balls and vision to still do what they do best is somthing i can only dream of ,I hear and read all the negitive feedback and all i can and will say is fuck you who the hell are you, well ill leave it there, god bless metal , sabbath , and the trunk ,eddie keep doing what your doing for what we all hold so near and dear, not to sure if you agree with me ,feel free to let us know how u feel …metal 4 ever
The song isn’t bad but I think the bass sounds waaaaaay to clean and could have given the song way more balls if it had a better sound.
Nice for Ozzie to recognise that Ronnie James Dio was the God of Heavy Metal vocalists 🙂
Its not bad.
The lyrics and vocals are good. Musically, this sounds pretty uninspired with generic Sabbath riffs. The bridges were good, but a lack of fills and a guitar solo is unforgivable. A nine-minute song with no solo with Tony Iommi (The Riff Master) on guitars?! No fuckin’ way!! Hopefully, the other tracks on the album will have guitar solos. Without them, this album is completely pointless. Also, this isn’t Black Sabbath, but a version of Black Sabbath. Only with drummer Bill Ward can you truly call this Black Sabbath.