Producer Rick Rubin recognized something about Black Sabbath. It wasn’t just that none of their inheritors make records like the band’s earliest triumphs anymore. Even the co-founding members themselves hadn’t lately.
The results of their time together, to be released this month as 13, seem to confirm that his loose, back-to-basics approach was a success.
[SOMETHING ELSE! REWIND: Check out Nick DeRiso’s first-listen review of the new Black Sabbath reunion record ’13’, which he calls a triumph of brotherhood and evil-ass coolness.]
“It’s an album,” Rubin says in the attached video, “that the bands who have come in their wake can’t really make. What Black Sabbath does is a lost art.”
He got there by stripping away the artifice that had accumulated over the years since Ozzy Osbourne departed after 1978’s Never Say Die. This new Black Sabbath project is the first to feature Ozzy, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler since then.
“Tony’s been used to layering like six or seven or eight tracks of guitar,” Butler says. “Rick convinced him to doing it the way he used to do it, and have a single guitar.”
The songs that have emerged so far pack a visceral impact that’s been missing from their work for some time.
“If we’re getting that kind of physical response that we’ve historically gotten from Black Sabbath,” Rubin adds, “then we’re doing the right thing.”
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