Mob Rules
| Black Sabbath
Mob Rules
Mob Rules is the 10th studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in November 1981. It followed 1980's Heaven and Hell, and it was the second and last Black Sabbath studio album to feature lead vocalist Ronnie James Dio prior to the 1992 album Dehumanizer. Produced and engineered by Martin Birch, the album received an expanded edition release in 2010.-"Wikipedia"
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Rolling Stone
Mob Rules finds the band as dull-witted and flatulent as ever.
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Metal Archives
it doesn’t possess the interest value of any of the ‘70s material, nor the quality of Sabbath’s other work with Dio. Not so many fresh ideas flourish on here as you would hope from such musicians, nor are the songs really up to that much, even factoring in my disappoint with the style.
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Sputnik Music
Despite not quite reaching the same level as Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules remains a worthy, and rather underrated follow-up, which isnt far off the quality of its predecessor.
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Drowned in Sound
emerged as generic texts, as unambiguously metallic as the market demanded at the time. Therefore the progress of Sabbath, like that of fellow midlanders Judas Priest, can be seen as emblematic of the progress of metal itself, as the grimy Seventies emerged from detox as the shiny, arena-ready Eighties.
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All Music
Mob Rules is a magnificent record, with the only serious problem being the sequencing of the material, which mirrors Heaven and Hell's almost to a tee.
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