Artist: BLACK SABBATH
Album: REUNION (2CD)

Release date: 1998
EAN/UPS: 5099749195493
Media type: CD

Reunion is a live album by heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979. Following a couple of one-off reunions in 1985 and 1992, the original Sabbath line-up of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward reformed, playing sporadic dates until Dio replaced Ozzy a second time, reforming the Heaven and Hell lineup to tour following the release of the compilation album The Dio Years.

This 2-CD live album was put together from the first two shows after the reunion, at the Birmingham NEC. Along with live versions of tracks such as "Paranoid", "N.I.B.", "Black Sabbath" and "Iron Man", it also features two new studio tracks - "Selling My Soul" and "Psycho Man". This was the only new material to have been officially released by Black Sabbath post-reunion until three new tracks appeared on the post-Ozzy compilation Black Sabbath: The Dio Years in 2007. The two new tracks on Reunion were also released on a single CD in the USA.

Black Sabbath received their only Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, for the live recording of "Iron Man" from this album.

All songs written by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, except where noted.

CD 1:

1."War Pigs" – 8:28
2."Behind the Wall of Sleep" – 4:07
3."N.I.B." – 6:45
4."Fairies Wear Boots" – 6:19
5."Electric Funeral" – 5:02
6."Sweet Leaf" – 5:07
7."Spiral Architect" – 5:40
8."Into the Void" – 6:32
9."Snowblind" – 6:08

CD 2:

1."Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" – 4:36
2."Orchid/Lord of This World" – 7:07
3."Dirty Women" – 6:29
4."Black Sabbath" – 7:29
5."Iron Man" – 8:21
6."Children of the Grave" – 6:30
7."Paranoid" – 4:28

8."Psycho Man" (Osbourne, Iommi) – 5:18
9."Selling My Soul" (Osbourne, Iommi) – 3:10

LINE-UP:

Ozzy Osbourne – vocals
Tony Iommi – guitar
Geezer Butler – bass
Bill Ward – drums*
Geoff Nicholls - keyboards, guitar