Mac Sabbath followed the stylish persuasions of ’80s and ’90s McDonaldland. A mash-up that no one expected or even knew they wanted. Those in search of innovation will walk away with one impression — “I’m Lovin It”
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“The only thing I’ve heard from ’13’ is maybe 40 seconds of the first song, and then I turned it off,” Ward says.
Black Sabbath meets Carl Palmer? It almost happened.
13 is a classic Sabbath album in every sense of the word. The recording features eight songs that come in at just under, sixty minutes, just like a record from the golden age of rock. The album features a blues drenched metal sound that is the closest sounding recording to the band’s first album, that the group has ever produced. Harkening back to the American black blues sounds of the fifties and sixties that influenced all of the top English rock bands (The Stones, Led Zeppelin) of their generation, there is even a bit of harmonica on one track. But make no mistake this is a heavy metal album in every sense of the word
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