Black Sabbath : 13 (Deluxe Edition)

IS GOD ALIVE 

OR IS HE DEAD ?

IS GOD DEAD ?

 13

is the

 nineteenth

 and final 

studio album

 by the English

heavy metal band

Black Sabbath

 It was released on

 June 7th, 2013

 through 

Republic Records

in the US, 

and

Vertigo Records

internationally 

 acting as their

 first studio album

 in 18 years

 the longest gap

 between albums during their run 

following Forbidden

(1995).

 It was the band's

 first studio recording 

with original singer

Ozzy Osbourne

and bassist

Geezer Butler 

since the live album

Reunion

(1998), 

which contained

 two new 

studio tracks.

 It was also

 the first studio album

 with Osbourne

 since 

Never Say Die!

(1978), 

and with 

Butler since

Cross Purposes

(1994).

Black Sabbath's 

original line-up 

first began work 

on a new studio album

 in 2001 

with producer 

Rick Rubin.

 The album's development 

was delayed over a

 10-year period,

 as Osbourne resumed

 his solo career 

while the rest of the

 band members

 went on to pursue

 other projects, 

including GZR

and

Heaven & Hell. 

When Black Sabbath 

announced the end

 of its hiatus on

 November 11th 2011,

 the band announced

 that they would restart work

 on a new album 

with Rubin

 In addition to 

original members 

Osbourne, 

Butler 

and guitarist

Tony Iommi, 

the band was joined 

at the recording sessions 

by drummer 

Brad Wilk,

 of 

Rage Against the Machine

and Audioslave, 

following original drummer 

Bill Ward's

 decision to not participate

 in the reunion, 

due to a contractual dispute.

The singles 

"God Is Dead?", 

"End of the Beginning", 

and 

"Loner" 

were released in promotion

 of the album. 

13 received positive reviews

 from critics; 

praise was directed 

at the band's

 songwriting and 

performance abilities

 several decades after

 their formation,

 though the album 

has been cited as a 

product of the loudness war, 

having a compromised

 sound quality 

as a result of an

 overly compressed 

dynamic range.

 At the 56th 

Annual Grammy Awards

in 2014,

 the band won 

the Grammy Award 

for Best Metal 

Performance for

 "God Is Dead?". 

Commercially,

13 was a 

number-one album

 in several countries, 

including the 

United Kingdom 

and United States. 

It was later certified gold

 by the

British Phonographic Industry

(BPI) 

for selling

 100,000 copies

 in the United Kingdom. 

The album was also 

certified platinum

 in Brazil,

 Canada, 

Germany, 

and Poland.

TRACKLIST

CD 1

End Of The Beginning

God Is Dead?

Loner

Zeitgeist

Age Of Reason

Live Forever

Damaged Soul

Dear Father

CD 2

Methademic

Peace of Mind

Pariah

Naïveté in Black

Psycho Man [*]

Selling My Soul [*]

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