First of all, I have not the slightest doubt that Brian could have done this up WAY better than what we have here, just saying, and giving a shout out to Brian's skills at this type of thing.....in general, I hate slavish tributes/slavish cover projects, I thought that w may have that on this Black Sabbath tribute, but, really, there are some legit interperataions of some of the Sab's great tunes here!OK, this here is a two disc set, obviously plenty of modern metal owe a debt to Black Sabbath......so what have we here? Well, Disc 1 Biohazard leads off with a good "After Forever", Megadeth rip up "Paranoid", 1,000 Homo DJ's infamous version of "Supernaut" is here (it's fab), Sepulturea turns in a fine "Symptom of the Universe", and Faith No More turn in a good live "War Pigs".....just the highlights, but I thought it was MUCH better than I had expected.
The second disc has a few gems also.....Godsmack comes through with "Sweet Leaf", Slayer turns in a "Hand of Doom", Monster Magnet CRUSHING "Into the Void", other stuff too (Bustah Rhymes? oh well)....
I think there have been a few other Sabbath tributes over the yearas, I may (or may not) have posted some here......I think this one is the best, so dig in!
NATIVITY IN BLACK DISC 2-01 GODSMACK-Sweet Leaf/02 MACHINE HEAD-Hole In the Sky/03 STATIC X-Behind the Wall of Sleep/04 MEGADETH-Never Say Die/05 SYSTEM OF A DOWN-Snowblind/06 PANTERA-Hand of Doom/07 PRIMUS W/OZZY-NIB/08 SLAYER-Hnd of Doom/09 SOULFLY-Under the Sun/10 HED (PE)-Sabbra Cadabara/11 MONSTER MAGNET-Into the Void/12 BUSTAH RHYMES- Iron Man (This Means War)