Black Sabbath – Live Evil (40th Anniversary Edition) (1982/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Black Sabbath – Live Evil (40th Anniversary Edition) (1982/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:49:48 minutes | 3,63 GB | Genre: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sanctuary Records

Black Sabbath made a two-pronged comeback in 1980 and 1981 when Ronnie James Dio joined their ranks as their new lead singer for the platinum albums, Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules. On the 1982 Mob Rules U.S. tour, they decided to record shows to create the first official Black Sabbath live album. With material drawn evenly between songs written with Ronnie as well as older classics such as “War Pigs” and “Iron Man,” when Live Evil was released at the end of 1982, it represented an accurate and powerful memento of Black Sabbath Mk2 on their second world tour. Although it was hailed by influential heavy metal magazine Kerrang! As “one of the greatest live albums of all time” in 1983, the band was never completely satisfied with the original mix. Now we are able to present a fresh, new 40th anniversary mix of the entire album, remixed from the original analog multi tracks by longtime associate of the band, Wyn Davis. The packaging will also include a 40-page hard back book featuring a newly commissioned 12,000-word essay, the new remix as a double LP, as well as the original double album, newly remastered in 2022 by Andy Pearce.

Black Sabbath’s first attempt at an official live album, 1982’s Live Evil was also the straw that broke the camel’s back — or rather, split the legendary group’s second lineup right down the middle. Band tensions were already at an all-time high leading into the album’s mixing sessions, but when founding members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler accused singer Ronnie James Dio of sneaking into the studio to raise the volume on his vocal tracks, the pint-sized warbler decided he’d had enough and, guilty or not, departed to pursue a solo career, taking drummer Vinny Appice with him. Fateful accusations aside, Live Evil does benefit from a crystal clear, in-your-face sound, and by showcasing even amounts of both Ozzy and Dio material, effectively documents Black Sabbath’s renascent tours of the early ’80s. Ronnie certainly has the vocal chops, if not the same everyman charm, to handle the Osbourne classics, but his incessant banter between (and during!) songs sometimes verges on the unbearable. And even though the album’s only truly transcendent moments may be the vicious introductory pairing of “E5150″/”Neon Knights” and the extended “Heaven and Hell”/”Sign of the Southern Cross” suite, there’s also nothing really amiss with solid interpretations of such all-time metal classics as “Children of the Sea,” “Black Sabbath,” “War Pigs,” and “Children of the Grave” either. And considering the as yet unknown travails awaiting Black Sabbath in the post-Dio era, Live Evil’s troubled gestation has come to seem positively idyllic in retrospect. – Eduardo Rivadavia

Tracklist:
1-01. Black Sabbath – E5150 (Live) (2023 Remaster) (02:19)
1-02. Black Sabbath – Neon Knights (Live) (2023 Remaster) (04:36)
1-03. Black Sabbath – N.I.B. (Live) (2023 Remaster) (05:08)
1-04. Black Sabbath – Children of the Sea (Live) (2023 Remaster) (06:07)
1-05. Black Sabbath – Voodoo (Live) (2023 Remaster) (05:51)
1-06. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (Live) (2023 Remaster) (08:38)
1-07. Black Sabbath – War Pigs (2023 Remaster) (09:18)
1-08. Black Sabbath – Iron Man (Live) (2023 Remaster) (07:33)
1-09. Black Sabbath – The Mob Rules (Live) (2023 Remaster) (04:11)
1-10. Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell (Live) (2023 Remaster) (12:08)
1-11. Black Sabbath – The Sign of the Southern Cross / Heaven and Hell (Continued) [Live] (2023 Remaster) (07:15)
1-12. Black Sabbath – Paranoid (Live) (2023 Remaster) (03:46)
1-13. Black Sabbath – Children of the Grave (Live) (2023 Remaster) (05:26)
1-14. Black Sabbath – Fluff (Live) (2023 Remaster) (01:15)
2-01. Black Sabbath – E5150 (Live in Seattle, April 24, 1982) (2023 Remix) (03:14)
2-02. Black Sabbath – Neon Knights (Live in Seattle, April 24, 1982) (2023 Remix) (04:35)
2-03. Black Sabbath – N.I.B. (Live in San Antonio, May 13, 1982) (2023 Remix) (05:51)
2-04. Black Sabbath – Children of the Sea (Live in San Antonio, May 13, 1982) (2023 Remix) (06:33)
2-05. Black Sabbath – Voodoo (Live in San Antonio, May 13, 1982) (2023 Remix) (06:06)
2-06. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (Live in Dallas, May 12, 1982) (2023 Remix) (09:13)
2-07. Black Sabbath – War Pigs / Drum Solo (Live in San Antonio, May 13, 1982) (2023 Remix) (09:19)
2-08. Black Sabbath – Iron Man (Live in San Antonio, May 13, 1982) (2023 Remix) (07:35)
2-09. Black Sabbath – The Mob Rules (Live in Seattle, April 24, 1982) (2023 Remix) (03:23)
2-10. Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell (Live in San Antonio, May 13, 1982) (2023 Remix) (11:57)
2-11. Black Sabbath – The Sign of the Southern Cross / Heaven and Hell (Continued) [Live in San Antonio, May 13, 1982] (2023 Remix) (07:18)
2-12. Black Sabbath – Paranoid (Live in San Antonio, May 13, 1982) (2023 Remix) (04:23)
2-13. Black Sabbath – Children of the Grave (Live in Fresno, April 18, 1982) (2023 Remix) (05:27)
2-14. Black Sabbath – Fluff (Live in Fresno, April 18, 1982) (2023 Remix) (01:23)

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