Reunion: Limited Edition - Black Sabbath

On the 5th December 1997, the original line-up of Black Sabbath reunited for a show in their native Birmingham, recorded as this double album and the finest official live album the band has released. While this and subsequent reunions with classic line-ups effectively ended Black Sabbath's studio career as they became fundamentally a live testament to their early material, the gimmick of sticking firmly to the Ozzy Osbourne years for this live show gains from the benefit of hindsight, as a more concise and entertaining setlist can be chosen than on previous tours designed to promote admittedly below-par Sabbath studio recordings. With only eight albums to draw material ...  Read the complete review

Great, at last the four horsemen of the apocalypse are back together even if it is only for one album. The line-up of Osbourne, Iommi, Butler and Ward will be for me the only lineup worth putting on stage. Ozzy is awesome and he works the crowd as only Ozzy can. Close your eyes, turn up the volume and you can almost imagine that you really are at the concert. The highlights of the set have to be "Paranoid" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" both of which will reach to the very darkest depth of you soul and should be played as loudly as possible. If you are only ever going to buy one Sabbath album, buy this one. ...  Read the complete review

The most important event of century as far as heavy rock is concerned was when in 1999, the original and best Black Sabbath line up got back together to perform a final Last Supper Re-union tour. To Sabbath fans it was a second coming, and this amazing event had to be recorded and here it is, the original Black Sabbath's first ever live album. This epic album is a double CD, each one containing all the "Classics" and on the 2nd CD 2 new studion tracks, never hard before. The thing that was always going to be difficult for Black Sabbath was to somehow update the old tracks. At the time there was nothing like them and they were loud, bad and ...  Read the complete review