The 1976 album will be repackaged in a five LP or four CD box set, encompassing remastered and alternate mixes of the album from producer Steven Wilson, as well as a host of outtakes and live versions.It’s released on October 1, and priced between £90 and £210. You can take a look at the package, which also includes a booklet, recreated tour programme and poster.
Take a peek at what's inside Technical Ecstasy Deluxe Edition. Out on October 1st.⁰Featuring a newly remastered album, previously unreleased outtakes, alternative mixes and live tracks.⁰Order your copy here: https://t.co/5Tc7XL2oSi pic.twitter.com/ZyFwmBUvWJ
— BlackSabbath (@BlackSabbath) August 4, 2021
Last year Black Sabbath published 20 unreleased studio and live recordings on the 4CD and 5LP formats (priced at £90 and £135 respectively). Both come with extensive booklets of liner notes with quotes from band members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.
Vol 4 on new 4-CD and 5-LP Super Deluxe Editions
Featuring a newly remastered album & 20 unreleased studio and live recordings
Coming February 12th, Order your copy now: https://t.co/v8CJfmMJIG pic.twitter.com/lvN0w5L5a7— BlackSabbath (@BlackSabbath) December 3, 2020
The collection will also include a poster, rare photographs as well as an early, previously unpublished draft of the album artwork, which boasts the working title ‘Snowblind’.
‘Vol 4: Super Deluxe Edition”s fourth disc features a tracklist that represents a typical live show from Black Sabbath’s 1973 tour in support of the record. The forthcoming album marks the first time a full ’73 Sabbath concert has been recreated.
In a new in-depth interview marking the record’s 50th birthday, Rolling Stone caught up with the woman, now identified as Louisa Livingstone, and with the photographer Keith Macmillan to discuss the creation of the iconic cover.
Macmillan reveals he found Livingstone through a London model agency and adds: “She was a fantastic model. She was quite petite, very, very cooperative. I wanted someone petite because it just gave the landscape a bit more grandeur. It made everything else look big.”
Livingstone, who says she was 18 or 19 years old at the time, recalls: “I had to get up at about four o’clock in the morning, or something as ridiculously early as that. It was absolutely freezing.
'We hated being a heavy metal band' "We called it heavy rock," recalls Iommi. "The
term heavy metal came about from a journalist when I came back from America (in the 70s). "He said 'you're playing heavy metal' and I said 'no, it's heavy rock - what's that?'"
