{"id":2446498,"date":"2019-07-18T16:34:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T22:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=860929"},"modified":"2019-07-18T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T22:34:54","slug":"black-sabbath-prep-vinyl-collection-with-bonus-rarities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/black-sabbath-prep-vinyl-collection-with-bonus-rarities\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sabbath Prep \u2018Vinyl Collection\u2019 With Bonus Rarities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black Sabbath<\/a> wrote the book on heavy, and their first decade\u2019s worth of albums represent the Old Testament in the book of metal. From the clanging opening chords of \u201cBlack Sabbath\u201d and lumbering siren\u2019s call of \u201cWar Pigs\u201d to the demon\u2019s cry of \u201cSabbath Bloody Sabbath\u201d and proto-thrash riffs of \u201cSymptom of the Universe,\u201d the Iron Man laid the blueprint for the genre on their first eight albums.<\/p>\n

Those LPs will now make up a new vinyl-only box set, The Vinyl Collection 1970 \u2013 1978<\/em>, which is due out September 6th. And because die-hard Sabbaholics likely already own the band\u2019s canon, the group is including a reproduction of \u201cEvil Woman\u201d seven-inch (backed with \u201cWicked World\u201d) and a new 12-inch compilation of their mono singles, dubbed Monomania<\/em> (a pun off their Sabotage<\/em> deep cut \u201cMegalomania\u201d), which includes two previously unreleased mixes. The set will be available only as a numbered collector\u2019s edition, limited to 3,000 copies.<\/p>\n

The band played its final concert in Birmingham, England \u2014 where they had formed in 1968 \u2014 in 2017. After that, they did one last jam session privately, which they filmed for a DVD release. \u201cIt was so weird saying goodbye after the sessions,\u201d Iommi told Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> that year. \u201cNobody really knew what to say to each other. It was a bit embarrassing really. I think we just sort of said, \u2018All right, I\u2019m going.’\u201d<\/p>\n

That same year, Metallica\u2019s Lars Ulrich named the band\u2019s Sabotage<\/em> LP as his favorite from the band, in a list he made of his favorite metal albums for Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>, and explained why he liked that one more than the others. \u201cThe first Sabbath record I got was the one before this one, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/em> \u201c[But Sabotage<\/em>] had a little bit more of what I would call an up-tempo energy than some of the other albums, so that\u2019s probably also part of the reason that it\u2019s my favorite.  Obviously their sound got a little more advanced as it went on. There\u2019s a simplicity to some of the earlier records, that I\u2019m appreciative of, but sonically, Sabotage<\/em> is the best-sounding record.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Vinyl Collection 1970 \u00ad\u2013 1978<\/em> contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Sabbath<\/em> (1970)
Paranoid<\/em> (1971)
Master of Reality<\/em> (1971)
Vol. 4<\/em> (1972)
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath<\/em> (1974)
Sabotage<\/em> (1975)
Technical Ecstasy<\/em> (1976)
Never Say Die!<\/em> (1978)<\/p>\n

Monomania<\/em> track list:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Side One<\/p>\n

1. \u201cEvil Woman (Don\u2019t Play Your Games With Me)\u201d *
2. \u201cWicked World\u201d
3. \u201cThe Wizard\u201d
4. \u201cIron Man\u201d (Edited Version)<\/p>\n

Side Two<\/p>\n

1. \u201cParanoid\u201d
2. \u201cInto The Void\u201d (Edited Version) **
3. \u201cSabbath, Bloody Sabbath\u201d (Edited Version)
4. \u201cIt\u2019s Alright\u201d
5. Radio Spot For Black Sabbath<\/p>\n

* previously unreleased in North America
** previously unreleased<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black Sabbath wrote the book on heavy, and their first decade\u2019s worth of albums represent the Old Testament in the book of metal. From the clanging opening chords of \u201cBlack Sabbath\u201d and lumbering siren\u2019s call of \u201cWar Pigs\u201d to the demon\u2019s cry of \u201cSabbath Bloody Sabbath\u201d and proto-thrash riffs of \u201cSymptom of the Universe,\u201d the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 19:52:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}