Artist: BLACK SABBATH
Album: SABOTAGE REMASTERED (DIGI)

Release date: 1975/ 2009
EAN/UPS: 0602527166643
Media type: CD

Sabotage, was Black Sabbath's sixth studio outing. Singer Ozzy Osbourne has often complained in interviews over the years that this album marked the beginning of what he described as guitarist Tony Iommi's studio production obsession. It took considerably longer to record and produce than each of the preceding albums, making it the most costly Sabbath album to that point (the first album only took a few hundred pounds and a couple of days).

In regard to sound, the album continues a trend that began with the previous album. With Sabotage, Iommi brought in more use of keyboards and "orchestral"-sounding songwriting and oddities (for Sabbath) like choral arrangements ("Supertzar").

On some of the first vinyl/cassette releases (and all of the remastered versions of the album) there is a short, 23 second hidden track titled "Blow on a Jug" at the end of "The Writ". Recorded at very low volume, it contains Ozzy and Bill Ward goofing around in the studio.

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

TRACKLIST:

"Hole in the Sky" – 3:59
"Don't Start (Too Late)" – 0:49
"Symptom of the Universe" – 6:29
"Megalomania" – 9:46
"The Thrill of It All" – 5:56
"Supertzar" – 3:44
"Am I Going Insane (Radio)" – 4:16
"The Writ" – 8:45

LINE-UP:

Ozzy Osbourne – lead vocals
Tony Iommi – lead guitar
Terry "Geezer" Butler – bass guitar (miscredited as "Tony 'Geezer' Butler" in the story of the band on the Canadian CD issue)
Bill Ward – drums
Gerald "Jezz" Woodruffe – keyboards