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120/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

So what now? #DeepPurple or #BlackSabbath?

I love them both, and even though I think "Deep Purple in Rock" is the best album of their joint discography, I think would choose Sabbath if I had to. Luckily I don't have to and can enjoy both.

My biggest surprise on this journey?
Sabotage hit me more than I expected and I didn't expect the Tony Martin era to be this good.
I was also really blown away by Purple's "Now What ?!".

I discovered "Anya" which I never listened to before. I loved this song immediatelly.

What's left to say? Thanks for following me along 🤘

And with that, here's my combined album ranking:

119/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

With all 22 albums done, here is my final ranking of #DeepPurple studio albums:

1. Deep Purple in Rock 5/5
2. Infinite 4.5
3. Machine Head 4.5
4. Burn 4.5
5. Now What ?! 4.5
6. Perfect Strangers 4
7. Fireball 4
8. =1 4
9. Purpendicular 4
10. Whoosh! 4
11. The Battle Rages On… 4
12. Stormbringer 3.5
13. Deep Purple 3.5
14. Who Do We Think We Are 3.5
15. The House of Blue Light 3
16. The Book of Taliesyn 3
17. Rapture of the Deep 3
18. Bananas 2.5
19. Abandon 2.5
20. Come Taste The Band 2.5
21. Shades of Deep Purple 2.5
22. Slaves and Masters 2.5

118/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

It is bleeding obvious that Deep Purple is one of the most influential bands for hard rock and metal. 9 marks left some marks, Mark II left the deepest marks, Mark VIII left the most marks.

I genuinely hope that this isn't their farewell album, becase if this album shows one thing it's that: their fire is still burning strong!

=1 is a great album, 4/5.

🎵 Bleeding Obvious by #DeepPurple
💿 =1 (2024)
▶️ https://song.link/y/KT9bho6uj00

117/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

In case you lost count, we are now at Mark IX after Simon McBride replaced Steve Morse.

Ian Paice is the only band member who contributed to all Deep Purple albums.

🎵 Pictures of You by #DeepPurple
💿 =1 (2024)
▶️ https://song.link/y/KT9bho6uj00

116/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Alright folks, this is it, the last album on this extra long Metaljourney.

Album number 22 for #DeepPurple and number 42 overall on this journey.

So Deep Purple, show me what you old lads got:

🎵 Show Me
💿 =1 (2024)
▶️ https://song.link/y/5fM1IFKyQk0

115/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

As I said, Whoosh! is another great album.
4 out of 5 stars.

Whoosh! is also the last Deep Purple in Mark VIII line-up as Steven Morse leaves the band in 2022.

One thing that I haven't mention yet: Bob Ezrin took over as producer with Now What?! and you can hear that. #DeepPurple only made great records ever since. No outliers.

🎵 Man Alive
💿 Whoosh! (2020)
▶️ https://song.link/y/L8Io_1WJ8WI

114/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Ok heads up: Whoosh! will be the next absolutely great Deep Purple album and I am amazed by how good their late works are.

🎵 Drop the Weapon by #DeepPurple
💿 Whoosh! (2020)
▶️ https://song.link/y/tzEHQ6KKkdM

113/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Like Now What?!, Infinite is a masterpiece level album.

I have only one complaint: I wish they hadn't cut off Birds of Prey so soon. I want to listen to this majestic guitar solo infinitely. I don't want it to end ever. This might be Steven Morse's best work ever and I thank him for that!

4.5 out of 5.

Also - SPOILER ALERT - I can already tell you that Infinite is my second favourite Deep Purple album.

🎵 Birds of Prey by #DeepPurple
💿 Infinite (2017)
▶️ https://song.link/y/-FkPxr7zJ6U

112/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Similar to Sabbath's "13", #Infinite was a bit of a gate opener for me. I listened to it a lot when it was realeased, and I only explored Deep Purple's back catalogue afterwards.

So of course I am biased, but please, listen to this song and tell me it's not great 👇

🎵 The Surprising by #DeepPurple
💿 Infinite (2017)
▶️ https://song.link/y/EjYmy8dHYmE

111/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Alright alright alright. The #BlackSabbath part of my Metaljourney is done, but there are still 3 #DeepPurple albums left.

Next up is one of my favourites:

🎵 Time for Bedlam by Deep Purple
💿 Infinite (2017
▶️ https://song.link/y/T0YmYsU_rM8

110/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

And here it is, my final ranking of all #BlackSabbath studio albums:

1 Sabotage 5
2 Paranoid 5
3 13 4.5
4 Heaven and Hell 4.5
5 Master of Reality 4.5
6 Black Sabbath 4.5
7 Dehumanizer 4.5
8 Tyr 4.5
9 Vol. 4 4
10 Mob Rules 4
11 The Devil You Know* 4
12 Headless Cross 4
13 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 3.5
14 Born Again 3.5
15 Never Say Die 3.5
16 Cross Purposes 3.5
17 The Eternal Idol 3
18 Forbidden 3
19 Technical Ecstasy 2.5
20 Seventh Star 2

109/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Dear father, why is "13" so good?

🎵 Dear Father
💿 13 (2013)
▶️ https://song.link/y/7GEzSBxRVNw

Ok I admit, I am biased. Before 13 I only listened to a couple of #BlackSabbath songs, you know, the obvious ones, but 13 really got me into them.

13 is fantastic and Iommi's solo in "The End of the Beginning" is my favourite of his, by a large margin.

4.5 out of 5, a masterpiece.

With this, the Black Sabbath path of my DeepSabbath Metaljourney is almost at its end.
What is still missing is my final ranking, which should also answer where I am in the #Ozzy vs #Dio era #Sabbath discussion.

You'll find that in the next toot.

108/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Is this the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end?

2013 is the first year since 1990 that had both Deep Purple and Black Sabbath releases.

#13 marks #Ozzy's first album with Sabbath in 35 years. It will also be Sabbath's last ever studio album.

The album kicks off with the end of the beginning.
When I listened to it the first time I was immediately in love.

And Iommi, oh my god Iommi! This part at 5:15... goosebumps, always!

I love this album! 🤘

🎵 End Of The Beginning by #BlackSabbath
💿 13 (2013)
▶️ https://song.link/y/Y1MVogBNKhw

107/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourey

I have no idea what #DeepPurple changed, but it worked. Now What ?! sounds fresh, modern and powerful but doesn't neglect their past. It has everything any Purplehead could ever ask for.

Now What ?! is one of Deep Purple's best records.
In fact, it is their best album since Burn which makes it their best album in almost 40 years!

4.5 out of 5, masterpiece level 🤘

🎵 Uncommon Man
💿 Now What ?! (2013)
▶️ https://song.link/at/i/616738344

Ranking (excerpt):
...
2. Machine Head 4.5
3. Burn 4.5
4. Now What ?! 4.5 🆕
5. Perfect Strangers 4
6. Fireball 4
...

106/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourey

What did the lads of Deep Purple do during their 8 year break between Rapture of the Deep and Now What?! questionmark.

Have they bathed in a fountain of youth?
Now What?! is banger after banger.

I said it before and I'll say it again, and I'll probably say it again a couple of times, but: Deep Purple's late work doesn't get the attention it deserves!

🎵 Hell to Pay by #DeepPurple
💿 Now What?! (2013)
▶️ https://song.link/y/lNofQY3ppME

105/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

8 years have passed since Rapture of the Deep.

Now what?

Now What?!

A Simple Simple song might be simple, but it is fantastic!

🎵 A Simple Song by #DeepPurple
💿 Now What?! (2013)
▶️ https://song.link/at/i/616738334

104/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

I don't remember that "The Devil You Know" was this good. The last time I listened to it was already 7 years ago, so I guess it aged like fine wine.

This album has a very modern heavy sound which I prefer to 80s and 90s production. Yes, I am serious.

If I would rank this album in my joint #DeepPurple and #BlackSabbath list, it would be placed between Mob Rules and Purpendicular.

Here's a question to all Metalheads: does The Devil You Know belong into the Black Sabbath discography?
IMHO it has a stronger case than 7th Star.

🎵 Neverwhere by #HeavenAndHell
💿 The Devil You Know (2009)
▶️ https://song.link/y/B5VezIuQFkE

103/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Dio, Geezer and Iommy realasing an album. Must be Black Sabbath, right?
Wrong. They release it as Heaven & Hell so technically it wouldn't qualify for this Metaljourney.

But after 4 Deep Purple albums in a row, I need a bit of the #BlackSabbath sound.

So here we go, let's make it 42 albums instead of 41.

🎵 Atom and Evil by #HeavenAndHell
💿 The Devil You Know (2009)
▶️ https://song.link/y/7k7AKTA1CBo

102/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Deep Purple's Wordart cover art album "Rapture of the Deep" closes with an epic track:

🎵 Before Time Began by #DeepPurple
💿 Rapture of the Deep (2005)
▶️ https://song.link/y/FkUMjEE1jSQ

This one is another solid album and better than Bananas and Abandon.
3 out of 5 wordart textures.

Ranking (excerpt:
...
10 The House of Blue Light 3
11 The Book of Taliesyn 3
12 Rapture of the Deep 3 🆕
13 Bananas 2.5
14 Abandon 2.5
15 Come Taste the Band 2.5
...

101/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

#BlackSabbath was not unactive after the release of Forbidden. They reunited with #Ozzy went on a tour and released a live album "Reunion" which also features two new songs. But no new studio album was in sight.

Meanwhile in 2005 Deep Purple release Rapture of the Deep, which arguably has the worst album cover. Did they use Wordart there?

🎵 Money Talks by #DeepPurple
💿 Rapture of the Deep (2005)
▶️ https://song.link/y/vbqLfkw4Yh8

100/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Ok, so I am done with Deep Purple's Bananas.
To be frank I don't like the album title and the album art.
But I liked Bananas and overall I liked Bananas.

I don't need more Bananas though, so 2.5 out of 5 is a rating I can live with.

🎵 Bananas by #DeepPurple
💿 Bananas (2003)
▶️ https://song.link/y/Y1DlKkKezW4

99/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Picture Of Innocence is a nice blues rock song. Stylistically Deep Purple continue where they left with Abandoned. Overall really good, but a bit of variety wouldn't hurt.

🎵 Picture Of Innocence by #DeepPurple
💿 Bananas (2003)
▶️ https://song.link/y/FAxq8SUKccs

98/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

It is 2003. It took Deep Purple 5 years to release their next album called #Bananas

Don Airy replaces Jon Lord after his retirement. Airy is yet another musician who was active in both Purple and #BlackSabbath

With 20 years, the Mark VIII line-up is the longest reigning in Deep Purple's history and I am afraid that it'll stay like that.

🎵 House of Pain by #DeepPurple
💿 Bananas (2003)
▶️ https://song.link/y/3NHTnYS8mMU

I don't feel like Bananas so I'll stop my #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney for today and listen to something that's been itching me since this morning, thanks to @bestiaexmachina

🎵 Enchantment by Paradise Lost
💿 Draconian Times (1995)
▶️ https://song.link/y/MPl0vvGwP7Q

#TomsMusic #NowPlaying #ParadiseLost

97/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

I have mixed feelings about Deep Purple's Abandon. There are some good numbers (Seventh Heaven, Watching The Sky, '69), but overall it didn't really grab me.
Like something was missing or so.

2,5 out of 5. Solid, but I probably won't pick it up again.

🎵 '69 by #DeepPurple
💿 Abandon (1998)
▶️ https://song.link/y/Onb6LeyJm7g

34 albums done, 7 more to do.

96/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Halfway through "Abandon" and I am not really sold.

Apart from "Seventh Heaven" and "Watching The Skye" it just ripples along.

🎵 Fingers To The Bone by #DeepPurple
💿 Abandon (1996)
▶️ https://song.link/y/1PlKfnNDqGg

95/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

In 1998 Deep Purple release #Abandon, but they were not a band done, they were a band on!

Unfortunatelly this album doesn't seem available on any music streaming service, so you have to live with crappy YT links. I apologise in advance!

🎵 Any Fule Kno That by #DeepPurple
💿 Abandon (1998)
▶️ https://song.link/y/K0-h8nUrXtg

94/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

Oh that was a surprise! I really liked listening to #Purpendicular, it reminded me a lot of Fireball. Also it sounds a lot like the most recent albums (which - spoiler alert - were all good).

Great album, 4/5 🤘

My favourite track was Soon Forgotten, I caught myself banging my head to it:

🎵 Soon Forgotten
💿 Purpendicular (1996)
▶️ https://song.link/at/i/324161858

Purpendicualar was the first of 5 Deep Purple records before another #BlackSabbath release would see the light of day.

93/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

1996. Ritchie Blackmore has left #DeepPurple for good. Steven Morse picks up the axe and completes the Mark VII line-up consisting of Morse, Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice.

Mark VII is Deep Purples second longes lasting line-up, believe it or not.

🎵 Loosen My Strings
💿 Purpendicular (1996)
▶️ https://song.link/y/QTq7LUHrr6I

92/ #DeepSabbath #Metaljourney

#Forbidden was not liked at all when it was released.

A lot of the critics was because of the poor production.

Luckily this album was remixed some years ago and I am able to listen to a good sounding record.

It is a very generic one though and is only remotely what most would call Black Sabbath. But I don't really care about that.

Somehow I still like it, I'd say it's solid: 3/5

A lot of things happen in the #BlackSabbath cosmos in the next years, but no new album is in sight, until...

🎵 Kiss of Death
💿 Forbidden (1995)
▶️ https://song.link/y/xZeQqeCcaKU