LIFESTYLE36 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 Music & Movies Ozzy says Black Sabbath to record new album ome 45 years after pioneering heavy Angeles. But Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath’s metal, Black Sabbath will return to the lead guitarist and driving force behind the Sstudio for a new album that could be music, in a recent message on his website the band’s last, frontman Ozzy Osbourne said he has “been in the studio writing and says. Osbourne, in an interview published listening to some of my earlier ideas for Monday, said Black Sabbath had a “great” songs.” Osbourne acknowledged that experience with last year’s comeback Iommi’s health could affect the next album album “13” and a subsequent tour. The as the guitarist has been treated for cancer. heavy metal godfather, 65, said he told his “Obviously a lot of it is coming down to wife and manager Sharon Osbourne that Tony’s health,” Osbourne said. he wanted to return to his solo work unless He said that the band planned to work Black Sabbath came together for another again with Rick Rubin, the influential pro- album. ducer whose work has spanned genres “I said, ‘Sharon, I ain’t 21 anymore. If from hip-hop to metal. Rubin produced last we’re going to do it, I want to do it before year’s “13,” which was Black Sabbath’s first I’m 70! Time isn’t on our side,’” he told Metal album in 18 years and reached number one Hammer magazine. “So she made the call on album charts in both the United States and came back and said ‘Yeah, the record and Britain. The band helped pioneer company wants another album,’” he said. heavy metal, starting with its self-titled first Osbourne said Black Sabbath has not yet album in 1970. Black Sabbath incorporated written new music but plans to return to elements of the blues into a heavier guitar the studio in early 2015 for what would be sound, accompanied by themes of the the band’s 20th studio album. occult, which often alarmed religious He said the band members had not groups.—AFP decided whether to record in their native Britain or in Osbourne’s adopted Los An actor walks on the set of the television series, whose title is loosely translated as “State of Superstition”, during filming in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on September 24, 2014.—AFP Baghdad steps up propaganda fightback with jihadist TV satire s Iraqi forces struggle to pin back the of the trailer, which is still widely available on the refrain: “O beheader, where are you?” In a Pulp Islamic State group on the ground, Internet, opens with a cartoon-like devil charac- Fiction-style slow-motion finale, the “caliph” ends ABaghdad is taking its war against the ter brandishing a fork leading a column of up shooting all the Baathists one by one, a not- jihadists to the airwaves with a television come- jihadist fighters through the desert. He is met so-subtle Faustian warning that he who bargains dy series. The usually elusive Abu Bakr Al- with open arms by an ostensibly American char- with the devil chooses his own demise. Baghdadi features prominently in the show, acter in full cowboy attire who leads him into a “Ultimately, with fundamentalist organiza- whose promoters argue that ridiculing the tent for an arranged marriage. tions, the only solution is to confront them, and jihadist supremo can help dent his aura of that starts with the leaders,” said Jiyad. The almost supernatural villainy. ‘State of Superstition’ show’s first episode is lighter on satire and The fear factor-fed by online videos of mass The bride is a Jewish princess-a large star of relates the day jihadists march into a model Iraqi executions, beheadings and abductions-has David hangs around her neck to make that clear- town, with its candy-colored buildings and hon- been a key aspect of IS strategy, often handing it who is escorted to her nuptial nest by a woman est victory before the battle had even started. The whose sunglasses and bright green pantsuit are goal of the show is “to remove this phobia that an unmistakable reference to Qatar’s first lady denizens. has taken root in a lot of people’s minds”, chief Sheikha Mozah. She and the cowboy were Despite the show’s declared goal of encour- supervisor Thaer Jiyad told AFP on the set dropped from the new version of the opening aging Iraqis to overcome their fear, the thought Music Review: As usual, between two scenes. But if the show is clip for the series, whose title loosely translates of possible retribution for mocking the jihadists Baghdad’s new weapon in the war against IS, as “State of Superstition” and is a play on the caused a collective bout of stage fright among then its very first shots were a friendly fire blun- Arabic word for caliphate. The Joker of Batman the cast. “We encountered many difficulties, Lucinda Williams digs deep der that sparked controversy even as the series fame, Dracula and a dwarf are among the ran- notably when some of the artists were too afraid ave compassion for everyone premiered on Saturday. dom mix of characters in the background, all to take part in the shooting out of security con- you meet,” goes the opening The trailer that Iraqiya state TV had been dancing to the series’ catchy theme song, a paro- cerns,” director Ali Al-Qassem said. But those “Hline on the new album from showing several times a day for weeks plays on a dy of a known IS anthem. who stuck with the project feel they are partici- Lucinda Williams, who struggles to follow belief widely held in Iraq that IS was created by The next scene shows the result of the union pating in the war effort, he said. “We all have a her own counsel on the rest of the two-CD the CIA, Israel and Gulf monarchies to sow chaos. between the Jewish bride and the devil. “The duty to defend this country. We are not good at set. More than once, Williams advises the With the United States now leading an aerial egg hatched, a little IS-ling emerged,” the song using weapons but we can also help defeat IS subject of a song to buzz off as she copes bombing campaign which also involves several goes. The Baghdadi figure that grows out of the through our work.”—AFP with the toll of bad decisions, dysfunction- Gulf countries against IS in Iraq and Syria, the shell then leads a choir of officers from Saddam al relationships and wrath inspired by Iraqi Media Network production company had Hussein’s ex-ruling Baath party into reciting his heartache. Like most of Williams’ work, to order a last-minute reshoot. The first version program of blood-letting for Iraq with the “Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone” digs deep. The title comes from the thoughtful opening ballad, “Compassion,” originally a poem written by her father. It’s Royksopp bids adieu to albums with dark final work impossible to know another person’s bur- dens, the song says. orwegian electronic artists Royksopp said “In our consecutive run of albums, we have of horror films. An electronically altered voice Even so, Williams finds her tolerance yesterday that they would stop making been able to say what we want to say and do repeatedly intones over the song, “If you wish to tested. She sounds both angry and, at age Nalbums with the release of a final, darker what we want to do with the LP. We’re not going ride with us tonight ...” “The Inevitable End” 61, a bit weary. But whenever the energy work. The duo-known for their down-tempo to stop making music, but (in) the album format comes just months after Royksopp released an flags during the 20-song album, one of analogue synthesizers and elaborate shows in as such, this is the last thing from us,” he said. He EP called “Do It Again” with the Swedish singer the fine guitarists sitting in - co-producer which they often wear futuristic masks-said they said that “The Inevitable End,” Royksopp’s fifth Robyn, who has repeatedly collaborated with Greg Leisz, Tony Joe White and Bill Frisell would still make music but would not produce album, probed “darker subject matter” with a the duo. Royksopp has also repeatedly mixed among them - launches into a rejuvenat- any albums after the aptly titled “The Inevitable greater emphasis on the lyrics. versions of other artists’ songs including Lady This CD cover image released by ing solo. The album is a testament to the End,” due out on November 11. “We feel like this Royksopp released a first track off “The Gaga’s “Judas.”—AFP Concord Music Group shows “Ske-Dat- power of patience, empathy and a good is a goodbye to the traditional album format,” Inevitable End” entitled “Skulls” which is domi- De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch,” by Dr guitar solo.—AP duo member Svein Berge said in a statement. nated by a macabre synthesizer line reminiscent John.—AP Prince exalts in his ‘heaven’ ightfall is fast approaching at Paisley protest of not being in control of his own was dead to us - dead energy,” he explains. For Park. There are few lights on in the cav- music and famously battled and then departed Prince, the old Tribe Called Quest rhyme still Nernous compound, and unseen doves his label, Warner Bros., is now back with the rings true: “Industry rule number four thousand (of course there would be doves) are cooing up label - under his own terms.