BLACK SABBATH — Dehumanizer (review)

BLACK SABBATH — Dehumanizer album cover Album · 1992 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
Pekka
The history of Black Sabbath has been rather a confusing mess of falling outs and reunions, with every single recording vocalist with the exception of Glenn Hughes (but that was an Iommi solo anyway) making a comeback at some point. Not to even mention the various stints that Geezer and Bill have made over the years. One particularly enjoyable reunion brought back the Mob Rules era lineup, and resulted in perhaps the heaviest Black Sabbath album of all time, Dehumanizer.

A match made in heaven (and hell) to begin with, Dehumanizer brings back together the mighty riffs of Mr. Tony Iommi and the mighty roar or the late, great Mr. Ronnie James Dio, bless his soul. Hats off to the ever-dependable Geezer Butler for his cool bass patterns and the heavy hitting Vinny Appice, who could be mixed a bit lower though, but at the center of this album are the riffs and the vocals. No doubt about it. Sabbath are at their heaviest in slow grinders like After All (The Dead) and Letters From Earth, and TV Crimes and Time Machine sees them picking up the tempo and running with it. The chorus in Computer God is one of my favourite things from all Sabbath and all Dio, very few people can match the power of that delivery. Choruses overall are high points of the album, this group knows how to cash in with the promise set up by the verses.

This might be the least great album these guys ever produced together (counting in Heaven and Hell despite Appice's absence), which speaks volumes of the overall quality of their work. An excellent, solid piece of really heavy metal.
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