Born Again

Black Sabbath: Ian Gillan (vocals); Tommy Iommi (guitar, flute); Geezer Butler (bass); Bill Ward (drums, percussion).Additional personnel: Geoff Nicholls (keyboards).Personnel: Ian Gillan (vocals); Tony Iommi (guitar, flute); Geoff Nicholls (keyboards); Bill Ward (drums, percussion).Audio Remasterers: Matt Wortham; Andy Pearce.Liner Note Author: Alexander Milas.Recording information: The Manor Studio, Shipton, Cherwell Oxfordshire, Englan (08/27/1983); The Reading Festival (08/27/1983).Photographer: Ross Halfin.BORN AGAIN is probably the most underrated album in the Sabbath catalog. Featuring the classic lineup with vocalist Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) standing in for Ozzy, BORN is a balls-to-the-wall metal album made in an era when Dexy's Midnight Runners and Debarge dominated the charts."Trashed" races by with Gillan's hair-raising shrieks. It's said the man sang the album naked in the studio for maximum power and grittiness, and he seems to have achieved it. Sounding nothing like Ozzy