![]() “The material is sort of a cross between the old stuff and Heaven and Hell. It has a raunchy sound – something I think has been missing from Sabbath over the last few years. This is very much a classic Black Sabbath record.One of these is the caution I often display when first listening to new or changed personnel in pivotal roles in bands I really like. ![]() Like Black Sabbath that isn’t Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill. I’ve spoken about this in my ‘Cross Purposes’ review here, so won’t get into this again unless coaxed. When ‘Dehumanizer’ was released in 1992, I also didn’t quite get it. Often with the personnel changes also come stylistic changes, and this change (technically a reformation, but that’s not important for now) seemed odd. No actual mid-range work to give the bass drone and treble pitches their place. The version of this album I got was the 2011 re-issue with the bonus disc of live material from that era. They seem to take the awkward edge off the studio work and add just the right amount of cohesion to generate a suitable amount of appreciation from me for them. This has enabled me to listen to the original album with a slightly changed aural attitude. The album still doesn’t flow well, but I haven’t tried changing the track order to make it work better yet. Geezer Butler’s bass is as doom-ridden and active as it is at his best. Relaxed and flowing, but with a little grit replacing the high end of his ‘Mob Rules’-era soar. ABBA had an interesting variation of this.The slight let-down is Vinny Appice’s drum sound. The band also went through countless bassists and drummers before settling on Mark Evans and Phil Rudd.Most people know Brian Johnson is not the original singer of AC/DC, but fewer know that it is NOT Bon Scott either, but Dave Evans.Agnetha, Björn, Benny, and Anni-Frid were all the original members of the band, but just shortly after properly establishing as a band (and still going by the name "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid"), Agnetha became pregnant with her first child, and she was replaced for a short period of time by a friend of Anni-Frid, a gospel singer named Inger Brundin, on a trip to West Germany before Agnetha came back. For a brief period in the early 1970's, Aerosmith featured guitarists Joe Perry and Ray Tabano.Evans himself would be overshadowed by his replacement, Cliff Williams, who played on the band's breakthrough album Highway to Hell. Tabano, a childhood friend of Steven Tyler's, was soon replaced by Brad Whitford. Joey Kramer would have been this if Aerosmith had not been successful, because the band he left to join Aerosmith eventually had a couple of gold records as Tavares.Tabano however continued to be associated with the band throughout the seventies, working in their office and recording studio, running their fan club, designing and selling merchandise and writing the fan club newsletter until 1979 when he was fired by the band's current management. Likewise, that band's keyboardist was eventual P-Funk member Bernie Worrell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alabama had three different drummers: Bennett Vartanian, Jackie Owen, and Rick Scott all held this role until Mark Herndon took over in 1979. There's a ton of members of Anthrax just about no one knows.Argentinean Heavy Metal band Almafuerte, while by no means an unknown band by the time of its formation (due to its leader being a key member in Hermética, THE pillar of Argentina's Heavy Metal scene), still has an example in drummer Claudio Cardacci, who only played in Mundo Guanaco before being replaced by Walter Martínez, considered the best drummer the band ever had.(Despite this, Herndon usually played only in live settings and almost never on albums, due to Executive Meddling.) Vartanian is name-dropped in the band's song "Tar Top". George Johnston was the original drummer for April Wine.Apoptygma Berzerk co-founder Jon-Erik Martinsen split with the band after their first single, "Ashes to Ashes", due to feeling uncomfortable with the musical direction they were taking.For example: Joey Belladonna is the band's FOURTH singer. Most fans of the Melodic Death Metal band Arch-Enemy are unfamiliar with the band's original vocalist, Johan Liiva, who was fired by the band for his lack of energy during live performances.He and the band parted ways shortly before they hit it big. ![]()
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