#master of reality + vol 4 + this one + heaven & hell. also have a repressing of sabotage

[sofarsogoodsowhat]

oh also we were worried our copy of technical ecstasy was fucked up but my record player was just being stupid it plays fine. that’s four sabbath first pressings now i think

[music-addiction-disorder]

Last weeks poll ended with 16 votes, the winner (it was to be expected) was ZZ Top's 1983 "Eliminator" with 31,3%. It was a struggle for me aswell, but i ended up choosing "Afterburner" because it's the one that i keep going back to. It's must have something to do with that unique 80's sound...

The video for "Paranoid" was filmed in Belgium (1970), it was the first song i ever heard by Ozzy and Black Sabbath... i was hooked instantly! It's still my favorite Sabbath album to date, i mean... how can it not be with classics like "War Pigs", Paranoid", "Planet Caravan", "Iron Man" and "Fairies Wear Boots"?

Considered by many to be the first heavy metal band, Black Sabbath was formed in 1968 by Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward in Birmingham, UK. The band's original name was the Polka Tulk Blues Band (later shortened to Polka Tulk) and later on changed to Earth before becoming Black Sabbath inspired by an Italian horror movie of the same name. The original line-up lasted until 1979, after which Osbourne was fired and replaced by Ronnie James Dio. The line-up changes would continue, with no line-up remaining intact for consecutive studio releases. Throughout the changes, only Tony Iommi and keyboardist Geoff Nicholls, who also joined the band in 1979, would remain with Black Sabbath, although Nicholls would not always be credited as a full member. In 1997, Iommi, Butler, Ward, and Osbourne reunited, touring and releasing a live album in 1998, although a long-rumored studio release did not appear (the group attempted to record a new album in 2001 with producer Rick Rubin but the sessions were scrapped). After that, the group periodically reunited to tour with Ozzy's "Ozzfest" tour. In 2004, longtime keyboardist Geoff Nicholls was replaced by Adam Wakeman for an Ozzfest tour. No reason was given for the replacement. In 2006, the original line-up was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame.

In 2007, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio, and drummer Vinny Appice (who were featured on 1981's "Mob Rules" and 1992's "Dehumanizer") announced that they would tour together as Heaven & Hell (with Iommi, who owns the Black Sabbath name, deciding to keep the Black Sabbath name solely for the original line-up in light of their Rock 'n' Roll HOF induction) to support a Dio-era greatest hits release, which also featured 3 new Dio/Iommi compositions. A brand new live album was released under the Heaven & Hell name that same year, followed by a studio album in 2009.

In 2009, Osbourne sued Iommi over control of the Black Sabbath name. The lawsuit was settled the following year. In late 2011, it was announced that the original line-up would be recording and touring. Shortly, afterward, Bill Ward dropped out, stating he had been given a contract that was "unsignable". The three remaining members opted to continue without him. In 2013, the band released "13", their first studio album with Osbourne in 34 years. The band played their final live show in Birmingham, UK, on February 4, 2017. Although the band has announced that full-scale touring is done, Tony Iommi has stated that the door is still open for future music and possible live appearances.

Ps, if you vote please also reblog, the more people will do so the more this post will spread and the better the outcome and results will be. A big "thank you" in advance to anyone who will partake in this! Yours truly: @necro69mancer 🤘🍻

Oh, and also... suggestions for future polls are always welcome! 😎

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omg you say is that ANOTHER heavy metal listening update so soon already?! And I would YES! I know it sounds like I may have did some speedrunning (I did) but it was only stuff I didn't hear before/the good albums. So, onto this update:

Rainbow (Ronnie James Dio albums only, not including the live record)

Black Sabbath (up to The Mob Rules than Dehumanizer)

So, Rainbow. I can finally add my opinions! My favourite song is still "Stargazer" BUT I actually liked more songs from Long Live Rock 'n' Roll out of the three records. Also, I liked "L.A. Connection" quite a lot. I mean what can I say, I love Ronnie's voice.

Now, onto Black Sabbath. From the Ozzy era, I actually liked the infamous Paranoid and Master of Reality (and Vol. 4) an equal amount of songs. Thus, I'll go with Master of Reality being the one I prefer because "Paranoid" is still my favourite.

From the Dio era, I love Heaven and Hell the most. "Children of the Sea" is still my favourite song but I was surprised to find I really liked "After All". Again, I gotta be honest, I have a pretty big bias towards Ronnie.

Although, I'll argue the albums Paranoid and Heaven and Hell are almost so different (not only vocally but culturally, socially, and emotionally) that they can both be considered the best Black Sabbath album. That being said, I would also argue Heaven and Hell ranking right below/on par with the albums Black Sabbath and Vol.4 is just as fitting.

Alright, that's been another update and the list is nearly done! The next one will solely be devoted to Metallica followed by another update solely for Iron Maiden. After that, I'll give a final update post for Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Pink Floyd as a bonus.

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Bookshelf Briefs 4/25/20

Caste Heaven, Vol. 1 | By Chise Ogawa | SuBLime – I have to wonder why I read this. The warning signs are right there on the back cover—once the ruthless king of his class’s secret social hierarchy, Yuya Azusa is dethroned and given a choice to “become the new king’s plaything… or service the entire class!” I had hoped for more psychological suspense, perhaps, but instead there is sexual assault (that the protagonist later says he enjoyed), threat of more sexual assault, several scenes in which the sadistic new king (a rich kid named Karino) inserts foreign objects into Azusa’s orifices, and once-proud Azusa growing clingy and desperate. The last two chapters are about a different pair who seem to have a healthier relationship, but the main story so put me on edge I kept waiting for the double-cross to happen. I’m still not convinced it won’t, but that doesn’t really matter as I likely won’t be reading further. – Michelle Smith

Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku, Vol. 1 | By Yuji Kaku | Viz Media – Gabimaru is a notorious assassin whose ninjitsu skills are so great that he’s nearly immortal. Unfortunately for him, that means he spends most of the first chapter of Hell’s Paradise being subjected to (and surviving) a series of increasingly gruesome executions. His death sentence is temporarily stayed by a highly skilled swordswoman who offers him an opportunity to earn a full pardon for his crimes. If Gabimaru can find and retrieve the elixir of life for the shogun, he will be released. But he’ll also be in direct competition with other convicts and not everything is as it seems. There are many aspects of Hell’s Paradise that I found reminiscent of Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal (a manga that holds a special place in my heart), so it’s probably not too surprising that Kaku’s series appeals to me. I’m very curious to see where it goes from here. – Ash Brown

Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku, Vol. 1 | By Yuji Kaku | VIZ Media – I’m not ordinarily drawn to grim-looking Edo period manga with ninjas in it, but something about Hell’s Paradise intrigued me (maybe it was simply that striking cover) and, ultimately, I’m extremely glad I gave it a chance! The infamous assassin Gabimaru the Hollow always thought he felt no emotions until his wife proved otherwise. Set up by his clan for daring to want to leave their lifestyle, Gabimaru is sentenced to death, though he keeps resisting the various execution methods that are attempted. When he’s offered the chance of a pardon—and the chance to reunite with his wife and pursue a simple life together—he accepts, even if it means journeying to a mysterious island with a bunch of other bloodthirsty criminals in search of an elixir of immortality for the shogun. This is a pretty fascinating, if grisly, premise, and I’m very keen to see how it develops! – Michelle Smith

Himouto! Umaru-chan, Vol. 9 | By Sankakuhead | Seven Seas – Again, the basic theme of this series, which otherwise tends to run on “cute girls doing cute things,” is that sometimes you need to grow up and mature, even though it can be hard… but it doesn’t have to be right away. This can also sometimes lead to odd continuity—there’s a brief moment where Umaru imagines her brother moving out one day, and he’s clearly meant to be seen with Ebina… only Umaru doesn’t seem to have realized Ebina’s crush on her brother in reality. Despite that, this is another fun, fluffy volume in the series, with gags about trying (and failing) to cook, buying furniture, and being a bit nicer to your brother even though you think he’s a creep (that last is for Kirie). Fans should enjoy it. – Sean Gaffney

The Ideal Sponger Life, Vol. 5 | By Tsunehiko Watanabe and Neko Hinotsuki | Seven Seas – As ever with this series, the so-called “romantic rival” introduced at the end of the last volume, isn’t one at all, mostly becaase Zenjiro is still completely besotted with his bride, polygamy or no. The politics remains the reason to read this, and while our hero is getting better at it, he still screws up on occasion. He’s also up against a master, as seen on the cover, a goofy and over-the-top prince sort who is in reality using that as a front… but it’s so much a part of him that it’s very hard to tell the difference even if you’re an expert. As for Bona, she genuinely does bond with Zenjiro right away, causing Aura to get a bit jealous. Something might eventually come of that, but for the moment the series is content to be about glass and politics and not about haremettes. – Sean Gaffney

I’ll Win You Over, Sempai!, Vol. 3 | By Shin Shimoto | Kodansha Comics (digital only) – This is the story of a relentlessly positive girl (Koharu, who refuses to be rejected by her crush and so confesses to him day after day) and the tsundere object of her affections (Kanzaki-sempai, who repeatedly shoots her down). When I embarked upon this series, I thought it might be annoying and was delighted to instead find that I love it to pieces! Kanzaki-sempai is quirky and prickly yet also compassionate and Koharu truly cares about his happiness more than her own. In volume three, Kanzaki-sempai advises Koharu when her childhood friend confesses his love for her. There are many sweet moments where the main couple shows they really get each other, and though I do not love how often he calls her a moron, I’m still enjoying this series very much overall. Only two volumes to go, alas! – Michelle Smith

Komi Can’t Communicate, Vol. 6 | By Tomohito Oda | Viz Media – It’s good to see that although Komi is starting to make friends and get her thoughts across to people… even if it’s only just Tadano… she still has an amazing amount of difficulty with communication—the title is not any less wrong in the sixth book than it was in the first. Given that just talking to others is tough, karaoke proves a shivering nightmare, and even clothes shopping with her equally-bad-at-extroversion father is tough. As for the rest of the cast, well, the three guys who discuss which girl would be best as a girlfriend would be a bit creepy if it weren’t also pretty wholesome, and we meet a new guy who has resting thug face, so also has trouble communicating to people. Fun comedy. – Sean Gaffney

Ran the Peerless Beauty, Vol. 7 | By Ammitsu | Kodansha Comics (digital only) – Since I last briefed Ran the Peerless Beauty, not only has she gotten together with Akira, but we’ve even had the first female rival come and go. This volume is mostly about the first male rival, and I will admit he can be hard to take—he’s very blunt in the fact that he likes Ran, and tries to force a kiss on her at one point (she deflects him), so the reader is really not loving him. He also has a past with Akira that we’re starting to find out about, and comes from a farm/greenhouse family environment, so his story will continue to tie into the flowers motif. I admit it’s probably a good thing we have him, as Ran and Akira are so soggily sweet that they’re best taken in short, adorable doses. – Sean Gaffney

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Vol. 11 | By Kagiji Kumanomata | Viz Media – I also seem to have missed briefing the tenth volume of this. I’m sure it was funny, because this one is quite funny. The jokes are no longer “how does Syalis sleep,” though the final page does still end most chapters on her settling down for the night. Sometimes we see stressed-out demons ashamed she’ll see their old cringey photos. Sometimes it’s about Syalis trying to give out Valentine’s chocolates and not understanding the meaning of the word embarrassment. And in the funniest chapters, it IS about her sleeping, as she accidentally ingests some demonic No-Doz and also tries to have a “typical” girls’ pajama party that isn’t typical at all. I love this series. – Sean Gaffney

Something’s Wrong with Us, Vol. 1 | By Natsumi Ando | Kodansha Comics – Remembering my disappointment with the finale of Arisa, I wasn’t sure how I would like Something’s Wrong with Us, Natsumi Ando’s foray into josei suspense. Happily, I enjoyed it quite a bit! Our protagonist is Nao Hanaoka, a 21-year-old confectioner whose mother was accused of murder fifteen years ago and died while on trial for the crime. After Nao receives a note proclaiming her mother’s innocence, she’s willing to do anything to gain access to the renowned confectionary where it all happened and find out the truth, including agreeing to marry Tsubaki Takatsuki, who as a boy was the one to accuse her mother in the first place. She thinks that neither Tsubaki nor his cold and calculating mother recognize her—they knew her under a different name—but is that really the case? I hope the rest of the series is as fun as the first volume. – Michelle Smith

Teasing Master Takagi-san, Vol. 8 | By Soichiro Yamamoto | Yen Press – This series has proven that it works at its best when there’s more structure or more at stake. This isn’t to say that the chapters that are just “there’s a thing, Nishikata challenges Takagi, he loses, she teases him” aren’t funny and cute, because they are. But sometimes things get better when there’s a bit more than that, such as the start of this volume, which has… no, not the festival that was implied at the end of last time—not sure where that went… but Valentine’s Day, showing off Takagi having fun torturing Nishikata all day before and confessing in such a way that he would get a real answer if he manned up but he doesn’t. And as usual, Nishikata wins when he doesn’t try, like rock skipping. My favorite “teasing girl” series. – Sean Gaffney

By: Ash Brown

[metalshockfinland]

After returning from their 26-dates headlining “Hot’n’Heavy Album Release Tour” in China, SCARLET AURA will host special Book and Album release event on 19th December 2018 in Bucharest at Libmag!

SCARLET AURA, the most famous female fronted Heavy Metal band in Romania, is launching the new album “Hot`n`Heavy” and the first volume in the fantasy trilogy “The Book of Scarlet! Vol. I – Ignition”, is written in English by Aura Danciulescu, the voice of the band and integrates in the fantasy story the lyrics of the “Hot`n`Heavy” album. The launching event will take place on December 19th in Bucharest at the Libmag Library on the I.C.Bratianu Blvd. 6 and will be completed by an autograph session. Tickets, here.

Aura explains: “I really wanted to invite a big audience in the Scarlet world that we live in and we are singing of, and for this reason I chose to write this book. Not only songs from the album, such as “Hail to you!”, “Hate is evanescent, Violence is forever,” “Light be my guide” or “Fallin’ to pieces” will make the action, but also the characters in the book – you will find them not only fantastic, but also very sympathetic. The lyrics and songs themselves are complemented by the events taking place or emotions transmitted and I highly recommend that you read them and to listen to those songs on the album. I guarantee you that you will achieve better knowledge of us as artists, a deeper understanding of our messages and you will travel to the amazing world full of magic and love, of trust and friendship, of good and evil, of darkness and light, the world that we adore, the spirit we live every day on the stage through our show and through the messages we want to convey, a world in which, last but not least, you can find yourself!”

“Ignition” also includes original crayon sketches made by the author, visual milestones of a journey into a fantasy world of heroes who sacrifice for the ultimate good of mankind.

The cover was made by Iulian Agapie and graphics by Rafael Fau.

“A really fascinating story of Good and Bad, Heaven and Hell, World of Fire and the World of Light. Both worlds that exist together in symbiosis and cannot live by themselves alone. They are forever connected – in physical and spiritual way. A “wild” story, with so much imagination in mind, that loosely resembles Terry Pratchett`s Discworld. Humorous, brave in its dreams. A story that overturns the perception of good and bad. After all, we all have in ourselves the spark that ignites the fire and the light. This book does it too. And that is just the beginning. New masters of Heaven and Hell were born. So, let Scarlet live… the first battle on Earth has ended… new one is approaching on the horizon- … “with a smiley face at the end”. – Dimo Petkov (Krossfire)

“Clever combination of humor together with takes on heavy and serious subjects of life, love, friendship, reality, religion and humanity would make it appealing to any reader, especially those with interest in self-discovery. The actions in the book are also set in many cultural places of Aura’s home country – Romania, making the reader to wish to visit those places one day or soon. “The book of Scarlet – Ignition” is a must read for anyone who is a fan of metal and rock music (obviously!), of fantasy genre (the likes of Robert Asprin and Terry Pratchett), witty stories about the good and evil and self-awareness” – Dr. Tatyana Shubina (Outlanders Productions)

“This book is a full of candor piece and reveals the innocent abandon of the author, a confession full of thrills with the pen in the hand of the demiurgic, that is reinventing herself, inventing a fantastic world that interpose to the disquiet and the boundaries of this world, in which we become smaller because of the patterns and colossal illusions. Each triumph of the modern world`s come-down, falls in the face of the absurd kingdoms of fantastic, which gets a superior conscience in the same construction of the one that built it drowning it in the past, drowning the present, drowning in the illusion of time, burning the huge incertitude of the learned world in the favor of a civilization of the spooks, ghosts of light, faeries, witches, angels and demons. The fantastic of Aura evaluates her guided vocation with the capacity to annihilate the amorphous triumph, static, sad and necessarily tragic of a world full of crosses boosted for the spirit, a virtual world devastated by the excess of cynics and lucidity.” – Manu Savu (Crossing Eternity)

“Hot’n’Heavy” tracklisting: 1. This Future Becomes Our Past 2. Hail To You 3. In The Name Of My Pain 4. Hot’n’Heavy 5. Fallin’ To Pieces 6. Glimpse In The Mirror 7. You Bite Me I Bite You Back 8. Hate Is Evanescent, Violence Is Forever 9. Silver City 10. Light Be My Guide 11. Let’s Go Fuckin’ Wild Bonus Track: 12. Balkan Stars Project – To New Horizons

The album is available as a digital download/streaming from all major platforms, and, together with the book – from Scarlet Aura webshop: http://www.scarletaura.net/store

SCARLET AURA China tour, remaining dates:

11.28 Ji’an @ Corner Live 11.29 Ganzhou @ Lingyun Live 11.30 Chenzhou @ Yuhou Livehouse 12.01 Zhumadian @ Shiguang Beihou Livehouse 12.02 Linyi @ Old Oak 12.03 Lanling @ 1216 Cafe 12.04 Feixian @ Shuiman Cafe 12.05 Taian @ Dashijie Livehouse 12.06 Qingdao @ Yinghe Livehouse 12.07 Weifang @ Pluto Club 12.08 Xion’an @Feeling Pub 12.09 Rongcheng @ Mengma Livehouse 12.10 Beijing @ Yue Space 12.11 Cangzhou @ Mi Livehouse

Romania:

12.21 Bucharest @ Rock & Metal Fest

Watch the second video “Fallin’ to Pieces”, taken from “Hot’n’Heavy”: http://bit.ly/Fallin_to_Pieces. The first single “Hail to You” was out on 21 of August as a digital single and as a video: http://smarturl.it/hail_to_you.

Listen to Scarlet Aura tunes here: iTunes – http://bit.ly/scarlet-aura_AppleMusic Apple Music – http://bit.ly/scarlet-aura_AppleMusic Google Play: http://bit.ly/scarlet-aura_GooglePlay Amazon Music – http://bit.ly/scarlet-aura_amazon Spotify – http://bit.ly/scarlet-aura_spotify Deezer – http://bit.ly/scarlet-aura_deezer Tidal – http://bit.ly/scarlet-aura_tidal

Booking at contact@scarletaura.net Merchandise at http://bit.ly/SA-shop

More information at: BAND: https://www.facebook.com/scarletaura | https://scarletaura.net MANAGEMENT: https://alphaomega-management.com | https://www.facebook.com/OfficialAlphaOmegaManagement

SCARLET AURA Announce Book and Album Release Event in Bucharest in December 2018 After returning from their 26-dates headlining “Hot’n’Heavy Album Release Tour” in China, SCARLET AURA will host special Book and Album release event on 19th December 2018 in Bucharest at Libmag!