Stream of Consciousness & Music Reviews

      This is not where I expected them to go. A small disclaimer: the only other Black Sabbath album apart from this one that I've heard is their self titled, so I'm jumping from first to fifth here. That said, this is very much not the direction that I thought that they would head. This album is much lighter than their first, with the haunting, heavy feeling that it had being completely vanished. Now, there are more upbeat guitar solos, and even synth solos (which I was pretty surprised and pleased by). Throughout the whole thing, everything just sounds less doom-ful, if that makes sense. The skill of the band is still here in regard to their instruments, if just a tiny bit lesser than what I've heard from them before. The same cannot be said for the lyrics and vocals. I'm so split on the lyrics here. I never really go into the lyrics in these reviews because they usually serve their purpose really well or are, at the very least, passable and just nothing special. Thi...

       A part of why I started this site, other than to have one place to put my opinions on the music I listen to, was to introduce myself to new music and expand my horizons. A main focus of this is metal, because a lot of my friends listen to metal and I've never really listened to any except what I've heard them occasionally play when I'm with them. So, I'm (probably) gonna be listening to a good amount of metal in the future to at least expose myself to it, starting here. This and the next few metal albums I review were recommended to me by one of my metal-loving friends, so blame him if this is a bad selection. Also, I found some discrepancies with this album online when preparing to listen to it (specifically between European and North American versions), so for the record, I'm listening to the North American version as it's listed on Spotify. Also, since I have quite literally 0 knowledge of the genre, I think a lot of what I say early on will probably j...