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Ozzy Osbourne: "Down to Earth" |
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Sony/Epic Records
"He's
not my son" - Satan (from the video for Get Me
Through)
The 13th solo and most anticipated release from the
madman of Metal, the legendary bat biting maniac. 6 years
after his last one Ozzmosis, which was
his last with new material and 4 years after The
Ozzman Cometh, comes an opus worthy enough to
bare the name Ozzy.
When he, and three other men from Birmingham, England
called Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler recorded
an album titled Black Sabbath in one
week, no one could've foretold the effect it was to have
on generations to come. Black Sabbath,
the album became an enormous success. Black Sabbath the
band blew minds with releases such as "Paranoid",
"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", "Masters
of Reality" and "Vol 4",
creating a path faithfully adored by many bands from
Nirvana to Metallica.
It was 1978 when Black Sabbath and Ozzy parted company
with a haze of excesses clouding everybody's judgement.
Ozzy started to pull the pieces of his life back
together. He found a musical soulmate in Randy Rhoads,
and with it he found a new will and resolve to come back
stronger than ever. His solo career was launched with the
release of Blizzard Of Ozz in 1981, and
with it came the likes of Crazy Train, Suicide
Solution and Mr Crowley to elevate Osbourne
to legendary status once more.
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The loss of Randy Rhodes in 1982 left a hole both in
Ozzy's heart, and in his line-up. For Down to
Earth, Ozzy utilized Zakk Wylde, a guitarist who
can create and mystify like Randy Rhodes but can pound
the guitar like Tony Iommi. Combined with Ozzy's lyrical
mastery, it is no wonder that this "unlucky 13th
album" was so anticipated.
The album is bursting with Ozzy's signature brand of
hard-hitting rock melded with in your face melodies and
gut-busting guitars. Listeners are assaulted with 11
powerful tracks leading off with the first single, Gets
Me Through, a song Ozzy wrote as an open letter to
his fans ain which he proclaims, "I am not an
Anti-Christ I am not Ironman". The album also
features the classic metal ballad, Dreamer,
which demonstrates Ozzy's pro-environmentalist stand.
Songs like Junkie and Facing Hell
remind us of Ozzy's early metal days with Sabbath, where
Wylde proves once again that Ozzy know how to pick his
guitarists.
In addition this first pressing of the album will
include a 13-minute video retrospective of Ozzy's amazing
career and includes footage of the Osbourne with
guitarist Randy Rhoads performing "Crazy Train"
and "Mr. Crowley" in 1982.
In Down to Earth, Ozzy truly shows
that even after a three-decade career he still knows how
to bulldoze over musical boundaries.
By Aly Hirji, CanEHdian.com
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