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String Quart Tribute to Black Sabbath

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As a guy with widely varying musical tastes from classical to metal, I was quite impressed by the fact that these songs would flow so well in a quartet format. After listening to these classic Sabbath tunes over the past 30+ years, it was fun hearing them done in such a way. I would recommend this to anyone that is a Sabbath fan with an open mind. Every bit as much fun as Hayseed Dixie with a more serious attitude.

Black Sabbath on a string quartet, the most ominous music I have hear in my life, it goes hand by hand with anything Goblin ever made for Dario Argento. A must be not only for Sab fans but for terror fans too!

You can really see the art of the band stretched out on this. I hope these String Quartets become wildly popular! They certainly deserve to.

Pure classical strings: Violin, Cello, Viola, Contrabass. It's suitable for elevator & dentist music. Not bad but the music is lacking body, it feels empty and needs either more instruments or a deeper more pronounced bass. The high pitch strings do tend to get on your nerves after a while. The artist did a decent job on the songs but I don't think Black Sabbath comes out right with strings. The CD has 10 songs of which 9 are Sabbath and 1 is an original composition named Sacrament (short but ok). The CD really needed more songs to give a better incentive to purchase. Paranoid and Sabbath Bloddy Sabbath are my favorites in string.

Sabbath's music interpreted by this quartet seems a lot more repetitive and ordinary than I would have thought it would. Maybe another quartet could give it more depth. But what do I know? It's a nice novelty - I recommend buying it if you have been listening to Sabbath as much as I have. But, I have to agree with the fellow who pointed out the hack assembly line quality of this quartet series. Also, I am not sure they picked the more orchestral Sabbath songs to perform (i.e. Killing Yourself to Live, or Spiral Architect).

Black Sabbath's music lends itself so perfectly to this kind of a tribute, you can't help but think maybe Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, and Bill planned this from the beginning. Not likely, but still. This is one of the most natural sounding String Tributes out there. The slow, plodding, doom-like riffs translate amazingly to a string quartet. Check out the sound clips of Electric Funeral and Iron Man for the best examples. Even Paranoid was impressive, and that's not really a song you would expect to translate very well. In all, a great pickup Ozzy & Sabbath fans, both old and new.

I have been a Black sabbath fan for a long time. I was in Orchestra for nine years. I was so glad to find this CD on amazon. I haven't bought it yet, but I was wondering if you can buy, the violin score (part) for black sabbath? I would love to be able to play these songs myself.

This recording is very disappointing as far as adding a new exciting edge to Sabbath's great tunes. I'm 40 years old and have listened to Sabbath since my early teens. This is nothing but elevator music done on an assembly line. The main part of the strings are playing the tune while another one plays out the voice pattern over top.Real tacky and not very original.Once I recieved the CD I found an order form for the String Quartet's other cheesey renditions-Tributes to Queen,Zeppelin, U2, etc not to mention tributes to Bjork and Enya (who the hell are they?).This sound was like listening to castrated Sabbath music.There was no way to build up any dynamics or power using these instruments and they can't even begin to capture the raw emotion that makes Sabbath's music stand out. I love good string work but this left me wanting to reach through the speakers so I could grab those violins and smash them into a million pieces.As a hard core Sabbath fan I would strongly recommend buying the CD by Rondellus called Sabbatum if you want a unique attack on Sabbath music. It is very well done on medieval instruments and sung in Latin .