Had a chance to listen to the new Black Sabbath a few times now. Got the deluxe set so I have the 2'nd disc with 3 extra tunes. Only 8 tunes on Thirteen, but the shortest tune is 4:37, and 5 are over 7 minutes. Just over an hour between both discs.

Without doing research, I wonder if some of these are tunes that BS sat on for years like Van Halen did for their recent release.
There's nothing hardcore about the disc(s) really, just good middle of the road stuff that reminds me of their early work. Track #4, Zeitgeist, is my favorite so far. Old school stuff that required digging out some tube/flange effects. Tasty.
Plenty of instrumental work between vocal parts on some tunes, which stretches God is Dead? to almost 9 minutes.

This one was on my radar, and glad I picked it up. Freekin' old farts sound pretty good still. If you told me back in the 80's that Sabbath would still be functioning in 2013, I'd have slapped the folding sunglasses off your Member's Only jacket wearing a$$.








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