5/5/2024 0 Comments Black sabbath logo mob rukesThe reissues can be broken down into a few parts. That work was done in 2020 by Andy Pearce – a name you’ve seen before a few times if you follow all the reissues. These 2021 releases have a new round of remaster work done on them. So when I went to listen to these new versions, I picked Mob Rules as it was my first. That’s because Mob Rules is the first Black Sabbath album I ever bought. These first two albums with Dio are classic, and in the case of Mob Rules specifically, are special. All I’ll say about the base albums are that they’re still damn good. They’re 41 and 40 years old this year respectively, and as such, if you’re reading this, you know the albums. That’s because they’re well known entities at this point. I’m not going to be saying a ton about the base albums themselves. I wrote in more detail about the fiddly details on record labels and regions elsewhere if you care to read about it. These are issues released by different record labels in different markets. The point being, this is not just them “releasing the same thing over and over”. ![]() Those versions used a different set of masters, and were only marketed to the European market. They are *NOT* the same as the 2009-2010 Universal Deluxe editions. These are only for sale here in the North American market. They’re a subsidiary of Warner Bros Records, who has had US/North American distribution rights for every Black Sabbath album from Black Sabbath (1970) through till Eternal Idol (1987). These releases are from Rhino here in the US. And this week I received the vinyl copies, so I decided to get some thoughts down as to these new releases, what’s on them, and whether it’s worth it to pick them up. Well, late last week I got the new 2021 CD versions of the Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules albums in.
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