BLACK SABBATH — Dehumanizer (review)

BLACK SABBATH — Dehumanizer album cover Album · 1992 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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Letters from Sabbath...

Genre: heavy metal / doom metal

This album has been derided by a number of people, but I have always liked it. I liked the idea of Dio, Butler amd Appice being involved in Sabbath again, and I think that this album, while the production would be better (there's too much reverb on the drums - and, yet, the bass drum is barely audible), contains a number of quite strong songs.

I especially like the heaviness that there is to tracks like the groovy "Computer God", the doomladen "After All (the Dead)", the more melodic but still doomladen "Letters from Earth", and the semi-progressive "Too Late". The more uptempo song "TV Crimes" has been described as a more thrashy one, but I don't think so, it's more of an upbeat heavy metal song with some semi-aggressive riffing, which also goes for the considerably darker "Time Machine", which sounds a bit like Anvil meets motorcycle rock (to the extent that Anvil's music itself is not motorcycle rock, of course). The track "Master of Insanity", maybe a pun on "Master of Reality" starts out with an odd riff that makes one think of Atheist, before it kicks into the main song which oscillates between a melodic riff, which seems to draw on 80s metal and the emerging 90s alternative hard rock, and a more groovy riff that utilizes miniscule slots of silence. It is one of the best tracks of the album a long with "Computer God", "After All (the Dead)", "Letters from Earth" and "Too Late".

"Dehumanizer" is a rocking album which contains mostly solid and heavy tracks, and I think it might appeals to fans of traditional heavy metal and doom metal alike.
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