The album was re-released on 7 February 2011. The album is included in the Black Sabbath box set The Rules of Hell. Both shows were recorded in their entireties and are now widely circulated as audio and video bootlegs. Halford and Dio were friends (Dio having been impressed with Halford's work ethic on the 'Stars' project) and Halford would only do the Costa Mesa shows with Dio's blessing, which he received when he spoke with Dio by phone. For these two shows the band replaced Dio with Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford on the second night, Iommi, Butler and original Sabbath drummer Bill Ward also joined Osbourne onstage for four songs. However, Dio felt that Sabbath should not open for Ozzy when he had caused the band so many problems in the past. Contrary to popular belief, Dio did not quit because he was asked to support Ozzy's final shows at Costa Mesa. This incarnation of Sabbath ended when Dio's contract with the band ended several days before the Costa Mesa reunion shows in November 1992. It reached the Top 40 in the UK, and peaked at number 44 on the Billboard 200 chart. Commercially, the album marked a resurgence for Sabbath. Much of the album anticipates the directions taken by Dio in his eponymous solo band's next two records, Strange Highways (1994) and Angry Machines (1996). (1:17 minutes of this track is available as a download on the website of Carl Sentance, erstwhile vocalist with the Geezer Butler Band.)Īlthough the Black Sabbath lineup is the same as 1981's Mob Rules, the musical direction is very different, a marked change from their previous material, particularly their previous album, TYR. "Master of Insanity" was also an unreleased Geezer Butler Band track and the Dehumanizer version is essentially a re-recording of this. The Geezer Butler Band's version is available as a download on Butler's website. "Computer God" was the title of an unreleased song by The Geezer Butler Band, in 1986 – only the title made it to Dehumanizer. These songs can be found, along with other demos and untitled songs, on the Complete Dehumanizer Sessions bootleg. Initial demo sessions with Powell yielded numerous recordings, including two unreleased songs – "The Night Life" (also called "Next Time"), the riff being later used for "Psychophobia" on Cross Purposes, and "Bad Blood", which sounds very similar to "I" on Dehumanizer. During the recording session for the album, Tony Martin made a short comeback when invited by the band members to try the songs out but stayed just for a couple of days and the band then continued with Dio. They subsequently recruited Vinny Appice, who had served as Black Sabbath's drummer during most of Dio's previous tenure with the band, from 1980–1982. Dio initially wanted to replace Powell with Simon Wright, from AC/DC and his own band, but Butler and Iommi rejected him. The record was originally to be done with drummer Cozy Powell, then Black Sabbath's current drummer, but he was immobilized by a broken pelvic bone he had sustained in a horse riding accident. The album was recorded in Wales, at Rockfield Studios, where Queen had recorded A Night at the Opera. Lyrical themes vary from a computer worshipped as a god, to televangelists, to individualism and doubts about the afterlife. Both lyrically and musically, it is considered one of Sabbath's heaviest albums.
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