Circles and rings, dragons and kings

Had to post this one when I saw it. The animated trailer for the new Rules of Hell box set. Brilliant. Especially the Neon Knight waving his chib. Bow before the power and the glory, unbelievers !!!

The Mob (Still) Rules

Grud on a greenie, what a night at the big red shed last night. Heaven and Hell Black F***ing Sabbath with wee Ron singing for them (and how), playing an hour and a half of stone cold classics, all four horsemen of the doom apocalypse clad head to toe in black (natch), standing stock still in front of that wonderful Gothic, cross laden graveyard backdrop, grinding out those huge riffs at a real volume (finally!) appropriate to their monolithic magnificence. At last, (at last!!!) looking and sounding just like I imagined them to back in '82 on Live Evil as I listened to it for the 4,000th time. I'm not going to rattle on about it at any more length here, might just write a review for the web site if the enthusiasm still takes me, suffice to say I liked it. Boy, did I like it.

Oh, and they played "Sign of the Southern Cross" and "Falling Off the Edge of the World". Brilliantly. Jeez, I still cannot quite get my head around just how good they were.

I've Got a Golden Ticket !!!

Yes, it's true! I have! It came through in the post on Saturday...



In keeping with the Willie Wonka allusion, Sabbath Heaven and Hell themselves will be featuring a singer who could quite easily be mistaken for a wee Oompa-Loompa...

Now that's what I call commitment (vol. 4)

Stumbled across this picture (right) of the sainted wee Ron fronting the Sabs Heaven and Hell a few weeks back. Uncle Mex here could not help but notice that the leather lunged, pocket sized titan has invested himself in the blessed cause of fronting the greatest metal band in the known universe to such a heroically committed extent that his very DNA itself is transforming, as highlighted below in the close-up through the appearance of stigmata in the shape of the sacred Sabbath cross on the back of his hand (apparently that whole cross thing is also a traditional religious symbol of some significance as well - go figure!).


Anyhoo, I know damn well that the cheap "Volume 4" crack in the subject line would have worked better if the Oz was the current front man but the pun would not be denied - bollocks to the lot of you :-P

Hell??? It sounds just like Heaven to me...

I've been desperately trying to hold myself back from turning this blog into the inevitable place of worship (that everyone who knows me predicted it would be) but all this latest new Sabbath Heaven and Hell activity has pushed the big man right over the edge. The lads are on tour in Canada at the minute and some wonderfully generous Sab-head has posted footage of them on YouTube...

Yes, of course, your kindly old uncle will lead you straight to them, my young padawans...

The Mob Rules, After All (The Dead), Children of the Sea, The Sign of the Southern Cross (come on!), Neon Knights, and the mighty Lonely is the Word as well as two utterly belting new ones The Devil Cried and Ear in the Wall - I'm not too proud to admit that I had to wipe down my monitor when that mighty riff to the glorious "Southern Cross" kicked in... ahem...

HEALTH WARNING : negative commentators will be defenestrated (post castration)...