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  • yup

  • this song and "killing yourself to live" need to be in the setlist for the tour next year.

  • @ACEDIAMOND666

    Those are the 2 highest songs for vocals. Ozzy wouldnt do that. But his voice is definitely improving since 04...

  • @ruphilin9 i disagree. "Hole In The Sky" and "Symptom Of The Universe" are the highest notes i've ever heard ozzy sing. ozzy can't sing these 2 songs. he hasn't been able to sing them since the early 1980's. the version of "Symptom" on "Speak Of The Devil", as far as i know of, is the last time ozzy sang it. "Hole In The Sky" he hasn't tried to sing since the mid 70's. same goes for "Meglomania". btw, "Killing Yourself To Live" was played last in Phoenix, AZ in 1999 on the "Reunion" tour.

  • @ACEDIAMOND666 Listen to "The Writ" he sings bloody high on that at the start. I'm pretty sure they've never played it due to the fact Ozzy couldn't even sing it back then in the 70's.

  • @Dantallica i'm gonna look that up. i know just the place to check. i'll report back my findings.

  • The drums are badass here

  • It's amazing that this piece is so shiny since the 70's.

    The madman still had voice ten years ago.

  • I was there !!!!! fuckin' amazing fest, AWESOME gig !!!!! what a day my friend, what a day !!!!!! Sabbaaaaaaaaaath !!!!!!!

  • the ending riff is one of the most genius riffs ever written , i bought this album a few days ago and it is stuck my cd player (on purpose)!

  • What type of douche talks during Bills solo?!

  • @ministrymember99 got to be the son of no one to have such a lack of respect. Bill is killing everything !

  • Sure, Ozzy might not sing nearly as well as he used to, but this seems pretty good to me.

  • I was there!

  • This album and Master of Reality.

  • I was there happy days

  • @redpaul79

    but he has to sing :P:P:P lol

  • @redpaul79 fuck you

  • so much better than the Daytona one

  • @dcfanchris There's roughly a 30 year difference between those shows. The Dayton show was possibly recorded on a tape deck with a built in mic or a reel-to-reel with really shitty microphone. People seem to not understand that recording equipment was expensive in the early 70s & amateurs had difficulty getting their hands on the good equipment. Accept it for what it was, a decent audience recording in its time, but the years haven't been kind to the tape.

  • Who fucking talks during Bills drums solos?!?!

  • The meaning to this song is that we should be able to live our lives the way WE want, and other people shouldn't decide our morals and standards for us.

  • What are the differences of the different versions rly?

  • I though we were here to listen to some sabbath not talk religion. Personally I believe in god(who i am with) and satan(who i am against). Lets respect others please whether they believe or not. Listen to the song and enjoy it

  • scariest black sabbath song ever

  • @pteli11

    Satan is the only savior for me. Jesus and his disciples have betrayed the human race for far too long. It's time for us to rise and overthrow the oppression of religion. Hail Satan and masterbate on the holy altar of Christ.

  • @HOC666 lol - shut the fuck up, dumbass

  • @wolfatnight

    Suck my Satanic Cock!!!

  • @HOC666 Satan isn't real. Neither is god. I don't think you're taking the correct message from this song.

    But yes, in the biblical fiction, Satan is my favorite character.

  • @noahballs

    I am seriously surprised at the lack of familiarity with sarcastic humor in today's world. I was simply mocking the Jesus Freaks that posted comments to this video prior to my gibberish.

    On the other hand, thanks for telling me God and Satan aren't real. I'm not sure I would've been able to figure that out on my own. ; )

  • @HOC666 why would you want to mock anyone, thats whats wrong with this world, no one has respect for others

  • @Ben0itZ

    Why are you mocking me?

  • @HOC666 I didn't mock anyone, and if you somehow perceived it that way sorry

  • @Ben0itZ

    There you go mocking me again!

  • @HOC666 Lol

  • This album sounded unreal even back in the 70s--Black Sabbaaaaath!!!!!!!!

  • Found it! Well, the 3rd one.....(I've been kinda busy Ryan)....Thanks, once again....appreciate your patience with some of these....headaches. l.o.l.

  • @pteli11.

    Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say

    IF THEY KNEW you believed in God above?

    They should realize before they criticize

    that God is the only way to love

    Is your mind so small that you have to fall

    In with the pack wherever they run

    Will you still sneer when death is near

    And say they may as well worship the sun?

  • @pteli11 Sabbath wasn't satanic, at all

  • @eramir228 The first 8 albums is the word satan or hell mentioned only 4 times

  • @pteli11 wut makes those articles true?? and how do u even know if jesus exists.

  • I remember this show.

  • @pteli11 Hard rock and metal is not linked to Satanism. Also the "horns", according to the late great Ronnie James Dio(in Heavy Metal:A Headbanger's Journey) was originally a way of warding off the "evil eye". I'm a Christian and I listen to metal, it;s not about a "message" it's about the music. Get a clue.

  • this is 1 of my all time favourite Sabbath songs and i was here for this with my ex girlfriend. Awesome concert!!

  • Why url disapeared? Sorry my ignorance.

  • One of the heaviest Song in Metal History

  • @Ivansson92 Add an "s" and I'll agree.

  • Great stuff & thanks for posting!

  • If this live version is from the Academy gig in Birmingham prior to the 2001 Ozzfest then does us a favour and do me a copy of the whole gig!

  • really underrated song. goes head to head with supernaut for my favourite song on vol.4

  • They really should have played this so many more times!

  • this song kicks ass. Soulfly has a pretty heavy cover of it, too

  • Thats a Kick ASS SONG!!!

  • Very underrrated song they maybe should've played it more oftenly.

  • geezer?

  • Are you really asking who geezer butler is?

  • One Of The Greatest Heavy Metal Songs EVER!!

  • @abe1sapien

    Agreed my brother, long live the Sabbath.

  • geezer is the guy with a horrible T-shirt jaja

    under the sun is the best!!

  • where's geezer?!

  • BSF, can you list the songs from the HB gig for me?

    Alek, if you are now just hearing about Captain Beyond, get their first LP and bust out your air guitar/bass/drums or mic!

  • Yeah, these 8.

    Tomorrow's Dream, Sweet Leaf, War Pigs, Snowblind, Iron Man, Under the Sun, Wheels of Confusion, and Children of the Grave. I suppose Paranoid was supposed to be the encore, which was never performed.

  • Thank god it wasnt, its like beating a dead horse over and over again. Dont mind war pigs in that list, but would have swapped Iron Man with something better.

  • @msteeln always like to hear about people spreading the word of the great Captain Beyond.... great band and sorely underrated...cheers

  • Anyone else ever notice the part at 1:59 sounds a lot like the beginning of Deep Purple's "Flight of the Rat"?

  • the riff is soo dark...black sabbath and dio=true founders of metal..|\m/| |\m/|

  • I was at the infamous "woorst poossible show during the woorst poossible tour" Hollywood Bowl gig where Tony urpped up during the 3rd or 4th song and ended a good show. Captain Beyond were so fucking good that Black Sabbath got a pass that night.

  • Funny. When was this?

  • September 15, 1972. Although it was more like 8 or 9 songs. There's a recording of the gig...and I posted "Wheels of Confusion" from it. Tony did get sick immediately after they left the stage however...and that wouldn't be the first time...

    Tony got sick again during a show in Japan (one of the Tokyo '80 shows) because of some bad sushi. They had to cut a set short that night too. Great show however, despite the short set.

  • captain beyond, with Rod Evans, deep purple's original singer?

  • Yep.

  • Vol.4 is the best Sabbath's album ever. And, in my opinion, is the best metal album ever recorded as well. It defined metal.

  • don't forget about master of reality

  • agreed

  • this song is exactly what i believe

    and the riff at the end with the solo is amazing

  • i can see where slayer got it's inspiration for tormentor

  • ohhhh!!!! fuck!!!!

  • amazing song!!!!!!!!!!

  • The guitar solo is almost the same as the solo in Lord of this world. But who cares, both songs are great!

  • This song is pure genius - that opening riff defines the word heavy for me.

  • Vol. 4 had the heaviest fucking songs put on this earth, I'm sorry. That album put any other Sabbath album to shame when it came to REALLY being metal. You listen to Tommorow's Dream, Under The Sun, Snowblind and it is just pure fucking metal in every sense of the word. A highly overlooked album that should be held at their highest level.

  • @clockworkmike83 i agree... this album was a total masterpiece... a terrifying album. can't listen to the breakdown in snowblind or the descending riff in under the sun without almost crying.

    but then again, sabotage is insane and my all time favourite sabbath bloody sabbath.... thank god for sabbath.

  • @clockworkmike83 Nothing to be sorry about... Vol 4 kicks ass.

  • @clockworkmike83

    Actually all of the albums had some really gloomy songs, and lighter ones. Think about it - heck Sabotage was probably their heaviest album altogether and talk about underrated!

  • @clockworkmike83 no, it doesn't put the other albums to shame. but yes, it does have really fucking heavy riffs.

  • @mikexlong Well obviously Master of Reality, Paranoid and by most accounts Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are definitive albums as well, no question and really ALL albums up until Born Again were good albums. But Volume 4 had just that EVIL heavy sound to it. Like Under The Sun? Goddamn that's a fucking metal riff for sure. Pretty much gave birth to Sludge and Doomcore right then and there on that track alone. And Supernaut? Shit, listen to Geezer's bass making that swooshing sound. A classic album

  • @clockworkmike83 lol yeah, I love volume four for all those same reasons. The opening riff to under the sun is cool because it sounds like the revenge of the original Black Sabbath riff. so many classic riffs my friend, so many classics. Tony is simply the master :)

  • @clockworkmike83 tomorrow's dream is quite poppy really. i think masters is easily the heaviest album

  • @fuckamericanidiot MOR would be the definitive STONER metal album, no question. Children of the Grave is the heaviest song on that album. But Vol.4 was just entirely heavy minus Laguna Sunrise and Cornucopia. I do love MOR though, in fact the first 5 albums are legendary. Things got shakey around Sabotage and onward until Dio's entrance with Heaven and Hell.

  • @clockworkmike83 Vol 4 is my personal favorite.... the perfect wedding of heavy and melody...... track list is un-fucking believable

  • This is one of my favorite sabbath songs. Being as good as it is I don't understand why they don't play it more often!!!

  • yes you right...

  • this was the second and the last performance!

  • they played this song only twice in 2001!

  • Good post. I've never figured out why people go to a concert and talk during songs.

  • yes...is under the sun....a great song... soulfly play a trash version of this song

  • Soulfly's version rocks, but this original by Sabbath rules!

  • @abenaki54 I kinda agree with you, though I think Max's vocal delivery actually suits the lyrics better. I also like that Max downtuned the guitars to make sound even doomier, plus the end was remade to be an acoustic/tribal jam, which works for some reason. That's what I like about Soulfly's version. What I like about Sabbath's version is that the main riff his a sort of swing element to it, which is helped along by Bill's jazz-like influences.

  • but its only songs? where´s the video?

  • One of my best concert ever ! just HUGE

  • folks seem to forget that RHCP opened their set w/ this tune - the start of it anyway - when they headlined the biggest show of their lives...not live aid , that big fest that had the mud fights, etc....when they had the lightbulb on their heads....eitherway - sab is friggin GOD

  • I would like to hear the RHCP version

  • woodstock...94...? wtf, really?:-S

  • my fav song

  • amazing song!!!!!!!!!!

  • one of the single most under-rated Sabbath songs. reading "How Black Was Our Sabbath" apparently recording the drums on this track damn near drove Bill Ward nuts:-P

  • never heard of that book...? ! bill ward always said he had poor `timing...hes one of my favs...killer tune

  • Wasn't that Cornucopia?

  • i'm sure it was this song.

  • it's under the sun

  • 99999999999999999999 % sure it is Under the sun

  • Well im 100% sure this is Under the Sun.

  • he sounds good here i wonder why they diddnt perform it more

  • This was a constant staple of theirs back in the 70's

  • Not really, it was only played a few times on the Vol 4 tour I believe. The only real staples from Vol 4 were Snowblind, and Supernaut, though they did play Cornucopia, Under the Sun, Changes, Tomorrows dream, and Wheels of Confusion (they omited the straightner portion) a few times.

  • i think that ozzys voice might be salvageable. if he laid off of touring and stuff and quit running around on stage and controlling his breathing he might be able to be a lot better than he is not. the stuff like "come on clap your fuckin handsssss" that he screams at the top of his voice can tire him. he could pull it off.

  • i totally agree

  • what mostly messes him up is that he tries too hard to hit those high notes. If he toned it down a little he could do a lot better

  • this is what a dumbass said about black sabbath Pentagram is the kind of band where Black Sabbath would say "I wish we had made those songs".

  • la mejor cancionde black sabbath es zero the hero y el mejor album born again

  • Puta madre.... de las mejores canciones de Black Sabbath, Con una introducción al estilo bien death metal...

  • Oooh

  • Truth be told Ozzy was never good vocally much beyond 70'.

    On the first two B.S. albums his vocals had a nasally baritone edge which made the vocals on par with the music--basically his vocals were like a band instrument however by 71' (master of reality) his voice was showing signs of being high and whiney.

    The following year saw the release of the musically incredible Vol. 4 album, if Ozzy had his original vocal tone to contribute it could have further enhanced an already great masterpiece.

  • um dude, you cannot possibly improve the first 4 black sabbath albums. they are PERFECT!

  • Are you joking? Not much good beyond '70? The first two albums featured Ozzy's shaky, thin voice. After Paranoid, from Master Of Reality through to Sabotage his voice just got better and better until it totally peaked with the shrill banshee wailing on songs like 'Hole in the Sky'. His voice is unearthly on those albums.

  • dude dont tell me i would NEVER say that, ozzy is one of the best vocalists ever, it was mightysaturn who said that. and i told him he's wrong. ozzy still sounds fucking awesome i saw him in '06 and true he is not as good as he once was but he still rocks harder than most people

  • Obviously I wasn't replying to you, chief.

  • umm obviously you were cause i got an email telling me that you did

  • Did the contents of my 'reply' really seem to contradict what you'd said? No. Now run along...

  • Don't you hate it when people can't read dancindandanson? I seem to have the same problem.

  • There does seems to be a bit of that going around, blacksabfan ;-)

  • hey guys....ozzy

  • I really want this live version on my iPod.

  • Download with vdownloader and convert to .mp3

  • "children of the sea"?

  • heaviest damn song ever written!!!

  • i was lucky enough to see this concert. it was beyond amazing

  • Ive noticed that on all recent sabbath tours theve foucosed there sets almost completely on the first three albums I think it would be cool if on there next tour the bulk of the material focosed on Volume 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage a cool set list would be 1.Symptom of the Universe 2.Tommorows Dream 3.Under the Sun 4.Cornocopia 5.A National Acrobat 6.Hole In The Sky 7.Snowblind 8.Meglomania 9.Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 10,Killing youyrself to Live and 5 others off earlier LPs
  • That would be a cool idea, but this would never happen. Ozzy doesn't have the vocal abilities to sing most of those songs. I can't imagine him doing Megalomania now, as he could barely manage it in 1975.

    I do wish they would play the extended version of "Wicked World" as they did from 1970-1973, with the "Sometimes I'm Happy" section and the drum and guitar solos. Plus it's not that hard to sing, so I'm not sure why they don't do it.

  • I wonder could Ozzy get surgery on his vocal chords or is it not possible?

  • Probably not worth the risk. It's probably more due to age than anything else. I won't just single out Ozzy either. Tony Martin, Ian Gillan, David Coverdale, Brian Johnson...all of them don't sound as good as they used to. Just part of aging.

  • Hey blacksab fan a friend of mine said he saw the MOB RULES tour and that SABBATH did SPIRAL ARCHITECT ? Any truth to this for I can only

    imagine how that would have sounded DIO singing the lines SILVER SHIPS ON COSMIC OCEANS IN DISGUISE

  • It was never played at any show that was recorded, so I would guess it's not true. I can't obviously say with 100% certainity that he's wrong, but he's probably mistaken. He probably confusing it with "Children of the Sea" or "Voodoo" or something in the similar vein as Spiral Architect.

  • If it was true I think YOU would have known about it. No my friend just knows that SPIRAL ARCITECT is my fav. SABBATH song and I am a HUGE

    fan of the HEAVEN & HELL / MOB RULES albums

    Thanks for clearing that up Blacksabfan.

    ~~~THE DEVIL IS WHAT WERE ALL TAUGHT TO FEAR-EAR-EAR~~WATCH OUT FOR RELIGION WHEN HE GET TOO NEAYAH TOO NEAR AGHHHHHH ~~~~~~

  • Silver ships on plasmic oceans. Geezer's nod to heroin use.

  • Thanks! And all this time I thought COSMIC OCEANS :( Then again I always thought it was  IF A ECHO DARKS AND DANCER????????

  • isn't it plastic oceans?

  • No, it's plasmic.

  • ahh yeah so it is, sorry. suppose that makes for an interesting lyric

  • Nope - plasmic. Saw an interview with Geezer.

  • how's that i don't get it?

  • Well Symptom of the universe, A National Acrobat, Hole in the Sky, Megalomania, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Basically everything you listed would be impossible for Ozzy to even attempt, unless Tony and Geezer were to tune super low, which I doubt would happen as well. It would be amazing, however. Apparently there is a recording of Killing yourself to live Live in 1998, but im not putting money on it. Can anyone shed any light on this?

  • 1987-94, Ozzy's best years post Sabbath (vocally). He seemed more sober on stage and in good shape.

  • Yea, it seems as though the so called dream show for Black Sabbath will never happen.

  • I could see them doing Johnny Blade in terms of Ozzy's vocal abilities (In C# tuning, opposed to standard), but I suppose peoples distaste in Never Say Die would persuade them not to. Rock and Roll doctor would be cool as well or even Shockwave, two of my favorite songs off Never Say Die.

  • *XD Rock and Roll Doctor isn't on Never Say Die! My mistake I men't Johnny Blade and Shockwave are two of my favorite from that album.

  • i think ozzy tries to sing through his nose like he use to but his voice cracks and stuff. he could probably pull off alot of those songs. trust me ozzy is done

  • He is done, most go to his shows because...well hes Ozzy Osbourne, a heavy metal icon.

  • Quite a shame, isn't it?

  • stii love him tho

  • feelings are mutual,man.

  • hey, its a great band man u gotta agree.they were waaay ahead of their time. bands today havent yet caught up to their heaviness

  • The solo reminds me little bit about N.I.B :)

  • Most of Iommi's riffs and solos follow the same patterns. 90% of his solos are improvisations between the 12th and 15th frets, and of course a slide to the 10th and 17th to bring them to life. His songs with Glen Hughes in Drop D and Drop C start to sound really repetitive though, because there are only so many patterns you can do with 3-5 chords.

  • ozzy doesn't hate volume 4...it's never say die that he was embarassed with!!!!!!!

  • Ozzy actaully sounds pretty tight here, I think. Sucks that he never took proper care of his voice, never had vocal trainers, smoked heavily, did every drug under the sun. Factor in age and wear and tear and that doesn't leave much, especially when he didn't have much to begin with.

    BTW, Tony's new Laney rig that he started using in the mid-90s makes this song rip assholes with a fishhook.