Dehumanizer

Occupation

  • Vocal: Ronnie James Dio
  • Guitar: Tony Iommi
  • Bass: Geezer Butler
  • Drums: Vinny Appice
  • Keyboard, Synthesizer: Geoff Nichols

Dehumanizer is the sixteenth studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It was released in June 1992.

Genesis

After Ronnie James Dio Black Sabbath had left to start his solo project Dio, only entered the Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes, the position of the singer on, later they have been replaced by Tony Martin, the three albums have been released. However, since these albums did not bring financial success, Tony Martin was dismissed from the band head Tony Iommi again. This was now that Ronnie James Dio again takes up the position of the singer to the old successful times ( Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules ) to tie. In fact, Ronnie James Dio interrupted his solo project, around 1992 to take the Dehumanizer album with Black Sabbath.

The line-up did not last. On the successor Cross Purposes Tony Martin got back as a singer and Vinny Appice was replaced by Bobby Rondinelli.

Music style and achievements

Stylistically, it differs greatly from the previous and even later following Black Sabbath albums. The sound of this album is rougher and harder. At the time of publication of this deterred many fans. Consequently, Dehumanizer was hardly successful. Yet, the album reached # 28 in the UK album charts. The single TV Crimes was a few days after the release to 33 on the British charts. In the U.S., the album reached number 44 on the Billboard charts. Despite the moderate success, many songs on this album were up to Dios death in the Heaven -and -Hell - playlist. Also Dio himself played until his death at his concerts songs from the album.

Title list

Trivia

  • The song Time Machine comes in a modified version before in the feature film Wayne 's World.
  • All songs were written by Greezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Ronnie James Dio.
  • In several interviews Ronnie James Dio emphasizes that his favorite song is about his time with Black Sabbath I.
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