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Black Sabbath Songs Recorded in Latin (MICHAEL TARM, July 26, 2002, Associated Press)

An Estonian record company has released an album of Black Sabbath songs played by a quintet specializing in music from the Middle Ages and singing in the main literary language of that era, Latin.

"If you take away the massive wall of sound from many Sabbath songs, what you have is pure 14th century music," producer Mihkel Raud claimed Friday. "Really."

The 12-track album - called "Sabbatum," Latin for "sabbath" - includes "Wheels of Confusion" ("Rotae Confusionis") and "War Pigs" ("Verres Militares") in slow, minimalist versions that wouldn't seem out of place at mass in the Sistine Chapel.

Other than the presence of an enormous number of buboes, what similarity does Black Sabbath bear to the 14th Century. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 26, 2002 9:22 PM