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- They wanted a song for a sequence where these people living behind a walled city are about to be attacked by barbarians. It was real science fiction, which I love, and the characters had horns coming out of their heads and all this evil imagery, so I came up with the title “The Mob Rules,” and Tony and I wrote the song.
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Mob Rules is the tenth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in November 1981. It followed 1980's Heaven and Hell, and was the second album to feature lead singer Ronnie James Dio and the first with drummer Vinny Appice. Neither musician would appear on a Black Sabbath studio album again until the 1992 album Dehumanizer. [4]
Feb 26, 2024 · After Black Sabbath ousted Ozzy Osbourne in April 1979 for his excessive substance abuse, things looked rather dire for the band. But along came Ronnie James Dio. The American rocker with the ...
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"Mob Rules was a confusing album for us,” Iommi told Guitar World. “We started writing songs differently for some reason and ended up not using a lot of really great material. That lineup was really great but we were still going through drug problems and the whole thing sometimes fell apart for very silly reasons — we were all acting like children....
“Attitudes started to change, people were living a bit more high on the hog and it was a lot easier not to be together than it was to be together, perhaps,” Dio told me in 2007. “But it was alright. It wasn’t a nightmare.” Mob Rules mixed upbeat and trudging songs in a manner similar to Heaven and Helland Dio’s vocals established a continuity betwe...
Black Sabbath’s former publicist Mick Wall, who has written numerous books about Sabbath, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses and others, claims the band was burdened by using the name Black Sabbath. While he said Mob Ruleswas a solid album – better than the last couple records Sabbath did with Ozzy – it still wasn’t a proper Black Sabbath record. “It was clo...
Sep 19, 2023 · Ans: ‘Mob Rules’ stands out from other Black Sabbath songs due to its incisive lyrics about societal dynamics and conformity. While the band is known for their dark and heavy sound, ‘Mob Rules’ specifically focuses on the theme of mob mentality.
Jul 6, 2015 · The version of “The Mob Rules” from the Heavy Metal soundtrack was finally released officially on a Black Sabbath album on the 2010 Deluxe Edition of the album. When asked via email in March 2007, Geezer Butler said the voice in E5150 said this..
Feb 26, 2018 · Mob Rules is the best album Black Sabbath made with Ronnie Dio, ahead of both Heaven And Hall and Dehumanizer. It set a standard that Dio himself tried to emulate when he left Sabbath and made the Holy Diver record – which in a way was the natural successor to Mob Rules.
Mob Rules is Black Sabbath's tenth studio album, released in November 1981. It peaked at number 29 on the U.S. charts. In the UK, it became the fourth Black Sabbath studio-album to attain Silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in February 1982.
