Track Listing

1. Anno Mundi (The Vision)
2. Law Maker
3. Jerusalem
4. Sabbath Stones
5. Battle of TYR
6. Odin's Court
7. Valhalla
8. Feels Good to Me
9. Heaven in Black - Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66867 in Music
• Released on: 2001-03-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered

Album Description
Digitally remastered reissue of Sabbath's 1990 album, their second for the deceased I.R.S. label, features all nine original tracks, most of which are tales of Norse mythology, plus updated sleeve notes. 1999.

Customer Reviews

Black Sabbath can't be with out Ozzy or Dio....YEAH RIGHT!
I, like many, gave up on Sabbath when Dio left. I even know fans that gave up right after Ozzy left! I loved the Ozzy years and I loved the Dio years even more [I'm a bigger fan of Dio, but that's just a personal taste :-)] After Dio left, I just lost interest in the band and didn't even give their ablums after the departure a try. Well, one day while scrounging through a CD store, my eyes fell upon TYR for a real cheap price. I decided what the hell and purchased it. After I put the disc on, my reaction was WOW! The whole disc was great from start to finish! Sabbath really did go on after Dio! And this Tony Martin fella...WOW does he have a set of pipes! I might be comitting blasphomy when I say this, but he could be better than dio :-O So if your a person like me and forgot about Sabbath after the Ozzy or Dio years, pick TYR. You will be glad you did!

Different Sabbath -- reminiscent of Dio, or even Savatage.
Yep, it doesn't have much to do with Ozzy-era Sabbath, so if that's all you're looking for, you can pretty much disregard it.

But if you like a wider palette of metal, this is really a great disc. The opening four songs are all top notch metal and cover a pretty wide territory. Anno Mundi may be the most 'progressive' song Sabbath ever did. The Lawmaker is fast, has a killer chorus riff, and sounds a lot like something off of Holy Diver, actually. And The Sabbath Stones is a classic, with a pure doom riff changing to a fast triple time outro.

There's a silly little synth orchestration in the middle, then you get another killer pair, the quiet, pretty Odin's Court flowing directly into Valhalla, which is upbeat and almost anthemic, with a catchy chorus you'll scream along too.

Surprisingly good production and high re-listenability value; I've got a lot of spins out of the disc and still enjoy it a lot. More than anything it reminds me of Savatage in the Zak Stevens years, so if you like that kind of metal, definitely check this out.

NO OZZY OR DIO? SO WHAT, THIS ROCKS!
Instead, the vocalist here is Tony Martin, and he's arguably the finest singer Black Sabbath has ever had. Enough of these ignorant automatons stating "this isn't the real Sabbath." This is Sabbath alright...Iommi's still on the axe, and he's in top form here. His solos rip, and the late-Cozy Powell's drumming is exceptional. Neil Murray's bass lines aren't too shabby, either. All in all, a damn fine album featuring a Black Sabbath with an evolved sound. And for the price, you can't go wrong.