I originally misjudged the album because it was a production/engineering rush job but when I went back into it just for the musicianship, I was blown away. Ward's best drumming on record to date, Gillan's perfect vocality, and hell, dare I say, a solid move forward post-Dio. The filler-transitional tracks here are also way better than the Ozzy era (credit Iommi).
I was front row center for this tour at the Nassau Coliseum tripping on window pane. Gillian's hair was down to his waist and he played a bongo solo with his hair flying around like a madman. Awesome!
Was fortuante enough to have seen them on this tour with Quiet Riot at the Capital Centre in November 1983......loudest concert EVER...E-V-E-R!! Listening to this reminded me of how powerful and ear-shattering they were....
I love Ozzy. I love Dio. I love Tony Martin. So tell me guys. Is "Born Again" worth getting? What I've heard of it: "Disturbing The Priest" and "Zero The Hero" is fucking righteous stuff.
Met Ian at a Deep Purple show backstage hanging out, and me being a singer I had to ask...nothing at all.!! 'Freaked out' of course, but stood quietly for photos...Good mate
Ian Gillan was an honest guy while in the BS. He gave his best and his voice. Did not impose himself with his great voice and never tried to steal the throne of Ozzy. He was only one of the best rock singers in the world that passed through the BS.
The sound quality on this is amazing. Is it from a bootleg or a professional recording? And Tony's solo is awesome too. "Born Again" was a great album and Gillan really fit in well with the post-Ozzy-Sabbath sound. It's really a shame that they only ever got to make one album together, because they were quite a powerful match.
wow, really? i love this album. i played it heavily when it was 1st released. i think i was about 17 then, and i just thought the whole album was great. real dark and brooding. some of iommi's best playing.
this is my favorite non-ozzy sabbath albums, and i git a bootleg of the tour, a radio show from worcester ma. this is a great album. ian does a great job on war pigs on that one too!
Try 'The devil you know' album, atom and evil, fear, neverwhere, breaking into heaven, also some others like shadow of the wind, buried alive, electric funeral, under the sun, and from the 13 album, god is dead, end of the beginning, there are plenty just as heavy.
Yup! Its up there with Into the Void, Behind the wall of sleep,Lord of this World,Symptom of the Universe,Hand of Doom and the chorus break down riff of Sab bloody Sab.......
To my mind - this is the most evil song ever. If you want to talk about some doom/thrash metal songs, then I'd like to say that they represent destruction/abomination, but never evil as it is heard in this song.
Yes bro. Me too. I worked graveyard shift in a depth store upstate NY buffing floors. Saw it n freaked.! Bought it the next morning.! I would later start opening albums n crank them on their stereos n stash them at the end of the bins. Armored Saint. Riot. Saxon. Raven. Grim Reaper. Icon. Endless obscure Metal.! Die hard then. Die hard now..PEACE..
Ian starts brillant here, but then his voices declines rapidly... At 1:24 you can hear the turning point of his voice. First the high stratospheric screams in the intro, the first two verses were ok, but afterwards he seemed to lost his voice and sucks through the rest of his song. A pity. Nevertheless Zero The Hero and Disturbing The Priest are the most evil sounding and most heavy Sabbath tracks. Born Again is an underrated hidden gem in Metal history.
@brnleague99 / I love the whole lp. Till DeHumanizer came along 10 years later this was prob the heaviest scariest album Sabbath had done since Masters of Reality!
Well Ian Gillan is great singer, but he fit to Black Sabbath. This performance shows that. Enoug Deep Purple in Black Sabbath at the times of "Born Again" album to make it a masterpiece...he destroy Ozzy in one second...
Yep he did. He was loud on early Elo music eg. On the third day and eldorado. Elo's late 70s stuff he may have been restricted.. probably Sabbath is more of his style
sounds pretty good live... i remember the music video that went with this track... it started out as a monsterous zombie like traging a body in some dongeon... and tyrants were back to life ...one of them was hitler
I'd have to say that 'Born Again' is probably one of the worst Sabbath albums ever BUT there's still a couple of cracking numbers on it : overall, this one is the best of them (&, for me, one of the best in their entire output - no disrespect to any other members past, present or future) & the sign of a truly great band that, even in times of such low fortunes, they could pull off a track like this. Thanks for posting.
Mark Outram Thrashed, Keep it warm, Zero the hero and Born again saves the album and makes it far better than Technical extacy. Never say die was no good album either except for the title track and perhaps Johnny blade.
I agree, overall poor with a few gems. There are times when I really dig this one. From Seventh Star and beyond it just got way too soft and diluted. I think this tour must have been awesome and I imagine that the shows with Ian and Bev were way more Sabbath than the record.
Casey Jones ...hmmm... I think "Technical Ecstasy" was the weakest album from Ozzy era Sabbath, I much prefer "Never Say Die" which is the album that Ozzy would always call "rubbish"... Can't believe you didn't mention "Shockwave" where Toni's guitar tone can labotomize you... "Juniors Eyes" is also a great song, Geezers bass steals that one...
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Born Again is an EXTREMELY underrated album
Paul P my favorite
Agreed. It's an acquired taste, didn't dig it then but love it now.
Exactly!
100 percent correct, I still to this day don’t understand why it gets so much hate.
I originally misjudged the album because it was a production/engineering rush job but when I went back into it just for the musicianship, I was blown away. Ward's best drumming on record to date, Gillan's perfect vocality, and hell, dare I say, a solid move forward post-Dio. The filler-transitional tracks here are also way better than the Ozzy era (credit Iommi).
The riffs in this song are relentless and heavy as hell.
I love Born Again... Ian was MADE for Sabbath.
Sounds great! IMHO, Zero the Hero is the best heavy metal song that most people have never heard.
What's there to say what a fucking riff . What a fucking underrated album what a fucking guitarist. There's very few if any could even match
Amazing rendition! Listen to that pounding bass! Geezer is the man!
Love this live version. One of my favorite Sabbath songs. Ian’s voice, of course Tony, the rhythm section... 🤘
holy f…..Bev Bevan is a beast on the drums……
Gillan has an amazing voice and holy christ does he hit those high notes! right up there with Rob Halfords
I was front row center for this tour at the Nassau Coliseum tripping on window pane. Gillian's hair was down to his waist and he played a bongo solo with his hair flying around like a madman. Awesome!
lolz rock on bro
Hahaha, FUCK YEAH!!
One of the most under appreciated sabbath tracks there is. This kicks ass!
tony iommi is the absolute riff master no 1!!! this and symptom of the universe are the heaviest songs from sabbath!
so fuckin great this ian gillan is fantastic here what a voice unbelivable!!!
Was fortuante enough to have seen them on this tour with Quiet Riot at the Capital Centre in November 1983......loudest concert EVER...E-V-E-R!! Listening to this reminded me of how powerful and ear-shattering they were....
Was at that show….incredible set by the Sabs…miss that venue, saw some incredible bands there
I love Ozzy. I love Dio. I love Tony Martin. So tell me guys. Is "Born Again" worth getting? What I've heard of it: "Disturbing The Priest" and "Zero The Hero" is fucking righteous stuff.
, Trashed as well, but the production of the original release was really bad.
YES. It fucking rocks.
First i found this Song ridiculous. Now i love it and and appreciate Sabbath for daring work with Gillan
One monster of a song!
one of the heaviest sabbath albums good fucking music good years in metal.
Met Ian at a Deep Purple show backstage hanging out, and me being a singer I had to ask...nothing at all.!! 'Freaked out' of course, but stood quietly for photos...Good mate
Actually Ian is my fav lead singer of all time. And this is my fav shhh sabbath from a vocals perspective....
Ian Gillan was an honest guy while in the BS.
He gave his best and his voice.
Did not impose himself with his great voice and never tried to steal the throne of Ozzy.
He was only one of the best rock singers in the world that passed through the BS.
Doesn't get much better than this....Disturbing the Priest is my all time fav of the album, but this is soooo close.
This song has the cheezy horror flick intro, but the main riff and chorus is soooooooooo killer.
Ian Gillan Rocks
Great album! Gillan sang his heart out on this one. Underrated metal gold.
One of the best iommi riffs
Nice accompaniment by the drums in the beginning. I like how Tony slowed things down. You can hear the "bite" in his playing.
Every day before breakfast
Sabbath has the best Vocalists
They all bring something different to the table and I think that's awesome
The sound quality on this is amazing. Is it from a bootleg or a professional recording? And Tony's solo is awesome too. "Born Again" was a great album and Gillan really fit in well with the post-Ozzy-Sabbath sound. It's really a shame that they only ever got to make one album together, because they were quite a powerful match.
I understand Born Again wasn't well received at all. I think the record will always be haunted by the awful production.
Nice contributions by Bev Bevan! Props!
Incredible. My favorite song off Born Again.🤘
wow, really? i love this album. i played it heavily when it was 1st released. i think i was about 17 then, and i just thought the whole album was great. real dark and brooding. some of iommi's best playing.
Master piece ever. Greatness.
I didnt know that Richard Branson, coolest billionaire ever, let Sabbath produce and record this wicked fucking album at one of his estates. Too cool.
this is my favorite non-ozzy sabbath albums, and i git a bootleg of the tour, a radio show from worcester ma. this is a great album. ian does a great job on war pigs on that one too!
my all time favvo album with them
I like this, technical ecstasy. and heaven and hell.
Very cool, i wish gillan stayed wirh sabbath fo a few more years
Wow! This version is excellent! Heavier than the one on the album!
Sabbath at their heaviest
saw them at the spectrum in 83 before I left for the army..fkn jamming at its best.rock and metal forever..... ......... ..
Ian gillan !!!! Legendary !!!!!! So Heavy so Evil !!!
😎🤘 Black sabbath is the Best metal band of all time !! 👻
genial Gillan, the best of sabbath
@Ampfear It was an amazing combo! Power, heavy and Ian disturbed the peace with his vocals.
i wish they had made one dvd untill fucking seperate!
Is there a heavier and more evil Black Sabbath song ? No.
+Ontariosound heavier no, more evil - disturbing the priest
Try 'The devil you know' album, atom and evil, fear, neverwhere, breaking into heaven, also some others like shadow of the wind, buried alive, electric funeral, under the sun, and from the 13 album, god is dead, end of the beginning, there are plenty just as heavy.
Yup! Its up there with Into the Void, Behind the wall of sleep,Lord of this World,Symptom of the Universe,Hand of Doom and the chorus break down riff of Sab bloody Sab.......
Yes. Disturbing the priest.
Computer God???
Love it
ZERO THE HERO
So much better than the studio album version
To my mind - this is the most evil song ever. If you want to talk about some doom/thrash metal songs, then I'd like to say that they represent destruction/abomination, but never evil as it is heard in this song.
Gillan Sabbath was best. Period.
Deep Sabbath
Incredible
Tony's solos on this song sounds like serpent squirming.........crazy,especially toward the end of song.
i saw this tour...albany new york...i remember the drum riser too!
@gman5531 Tony Iommi has been quoted as saying he likes the songs...but the production of the album, not so much.
thanks for the song .....!!
amazing!!!
@conker2021 No, in fact Gillan is superior to Dio but they are very different singers and a true comparison can't be done...
this sound has a great groove
2:35 shit gets fucking heavy
second verse 2:32 bloody heavy stuff
Sabbath freak from the first album. But damn this album kicks me in head from way back! Ian just kills with the golden vocal chords!
Yes bro. Me too. I worked graveyard shift in a depth store upstate NY buffing floors. Saw it n freaked.! Bought it the next morning.! I would later start opening albums n crank them on their stereos n stash them at the end of the bins. Armored Saint. Riot. Saxon. Raven. Grim Reaper. Icon. Endless obscure Metal.! Die hard then. Die hard now..PEACE..
@@raymorrow170 nice!!!! When Metal ruled the world!
Esta versão é melhor do que o live do Born Again delux Edition, o vocal está bem mais preciso, chega a ser hipnotizante
Ian starts brillant here, but then his voices declines rapidly... At 1:24 you can hear the turning point of his voice. First the high stratospheric screams in the intro, the first two verses were ok, but afterwards he seemed to lost his voice and sucks through the rest of his song. A pity.
Nevertheless Zero The Hero and Disturbing The Priest are the most evil sounding and most heavy Sabbath tracks. Born Again is an underrated hidden gem in Metal history.
Fucking brutal
Indeed he is!
Iommi is the best guitarist ever hands down 🤘🤘 Such a beastly riff
the way Ian sings this live is much better than studio even though his voice is messing up a bit in this clip
@brnleague99 / I love the whole lp. Till DeHumanizer came along 10 years later this was prob the heaviest scariest album Sabbath had done since Masters of Reality!
this song influenced Welcome to the jungle by Guns n roses and probably also Enter sandman by Metallica.
ian gillan is crazy
I imagine lord of hell rises slowly while this fukken song plays! Damn epic!
Bev Bevan one of the hardest hitting drummers
@lidoplace saw that tour in buffalo ny.....i agree about the volume :P
Guns & Roses stole the beat and used it for "Paradise City".
Yep
If you speed it up, maybe
in my mind this song is Sabbath's attempt to a sort of rap; it is probably the most "spoken" Gillan's song after "no laughing in heaven"
@brnleague99
hell you must have it !! i bought my self week ago a deluxe edition !! really worth it !!
Guns'n'Roses ripped that Main Riff for Welcome to the Jungle
Paradise City 😅
Absolutely Mystifying
@Pata1 And Danzig also stole it for "Her Black Wings"! Their former guitarist John Christ admits it.
@gibsongold1970 who said it was about ozzy?
Well Ian Gillan is great singer, but he fit to Black Sabbath. This performance shows that. Enoug Deep Purple in Black Sabbath at the times of "Born Again" album to make it a masterpiece...he destroy Ozzy in one second...
Bev Bevan??
Didn't he play drums for ELO?
Yup. He had two brief stints with the Sabs in the 80's, but I don't think he ever hit the studio with them
Yep he did. He was loud on early Elo music eg. On the third day and eldorado. Elo's late 70s stuff he may have been restricted.. probably Sabbath is more of his style
Are you sure? I thought that was Eric Singer?
That's the guy, haha!
The Move and ELO, then ELO II. Another Brummie of course. Underrated drummer.
This is the good stuff right here.
@BlackSabbath1776 That's right
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The besttttttttt fucks muito bommmmm tenho esse álbum born again muito bom
Anyone know what your date this is from?
sounds pretty good live...
i remember the music video that went with this track...
it started out as a monsterous zombie like traging a body in some dongeon...
and tyrants were back to life ...one of them was hitler
Drums really do save live performances
You tell Tony Iommi he is wrong! He's not
& good luck with that.
wasn't this in Hercules?
...would like to hear Ozzy do this one
Back 11 years later...
Somehow, I'm still "alive"...
Que Fight Club Into
Gillan killed his voice during this tour as I understand
Outright - INTHERED
oh,its just live Audio
Dont know if It was meant to be this way, but i always get the impression that Gillan sings this song in a pseudo-rap manner
Место Гиллана в Deep Purple, не его это группа, хотя он неплохо справлялся и здесь
I'd have to say that 'Born Again' is probably one of the worst Sabbath albums ever BUT there's still a couple of cracking numbers on it : overall, this one is the best of them (&, for me, one of the best in their entire output - no disrespect to any other members past, present or future) & the sign of a truly great band that, even in times of such low fortunes, they could pull off a track like this. Thanks for posting.
Mark Outram Thrashed, Keep it warm, Zero the hero and Born again saves the album and makes it far better than Technical extacy. Never say die was no good album either except for the title track and perhaps Johnny blade.
I agree, overall poor with a few gems. There are times when I really dig this one. From Seventh Star and beyond it just got way too soft and diluted. I think this tour must have been awesome and I imagine that the shows with Ian and Bev were way more Sabbath than the record.
Mark Outram my favorite Sabbath album by far!!!!
Casey Jones ...hmmm...
I think "Technical Ecstasy" was the weakest album from Ozzy era Sabbath, I much prefer
"Never Say Die" which is the
album that Ozzy would always
call "rubbish"...
Can't believe you didn't mention "Shockwave" where Toni's guitar tone can labotomize you...
"Juniors Eyes" is also a great song, Geezers bass steals that one...
these are lyrics!!! >:]]