OZZY OSBOURNE Speak off the Devil (Jet)

BLACK SABBATH Live Evil (Warner Brothers)

by

Joe Fernbacher

At first I thought, “Hmmm, Romilar slugs braying out an unerring barrage, of gloomytoons symphoniously heralding in 1984 with enough noise and annihilability to tweak the consciousness of the long dead...”, but that really didn’t sufficiently describe what goes on during the course of these eight sides of unabashed metalunacy. What? Will the metaphor fail at last? Has metal actually gone and exceeded the boundaries of the metaphor? Is this possible? Will Johnny really ever be good? Will...never mind.

Maybe. Because after closely listening to these “live” sides and drunkenly culling out all the juicy metaphors to use in a review I somehow find them all lacking in... wait a minute, I’ll show you what I mean: