Black Sabbath - Zero the Hero (Live'83)

Black Sabbath - Zero the Hero Ian Gillan(Vo)(Live '83)

[@gumbowski]

Born Again is an EXTREMELY underrated album

[@albertdavila6808]

Paul P my favorite

[@jonathanpressman3865]

Agreed. It's an acquired taste, didn't dig it then but love it now.

[@zzzOrion]

Exactly!

[@shspurs1342]

100 percent correct, I still to this day don’t understand why it gets so much hate.

[@gandalfshakur8235]

I originally misjudged the album because it was a production/engineering rush job but when I went back into it just for the musicianship, I was blown away. Ward's best drumming on record to date, Gillan's perfect vocality, and hell, dare I say, a solid move forward post-Dio. The filler-transitional tracks here are also way better than the Ozzy era (credit Iommi).

[@yngvebalmsteen9174]

The riffs in this song are relentless and heavy as hell.

[@nvideo360]

I love Born Again... Ian was MADE for Sabbath.

[@databasedan6833]

holy f…..Bev Bevan is a beast on the drums……

[@StephenFrasier]

Sounds great! IMHO, Zero the Hero is the best heavy metal song that most people have never heard.

[@douglas2902]

What's there to say what a fucking riff . What a fucking underrated album what a fucking guitarist. There's very few if any could even match

[@nthib91]

Gillan has an amazing voice and holy christ does he hit those high notes! right up there with Rob Halfords

[@Methodius93]

Amazing rendition! Listen to that pounding bass! Geezer is the man!

[@Saxonmarko]

so fuckin great this ian gillan is fantastic here what a voice unbelivable!!!

[@rothesslayer]

One of the most under appreciated sabbath tracks there is. This kicks ass!

[@azaccone]

I was front row center for this tour at the Nassau Coliseum tripping on window pane. Gillian's hair was down to his waist and he played a bongo solo with his hair flying around like a madman. Awesome!

[@stevet.4974]

lolz rock on bro

[@xyloplax]

This song has the cheezy horror flick intro, but the main riff and chorus is soooooooooo killer.

[@sashasavisha146]

Love this live version. One of my favorite Sabbath songs. Ian’s voice, of course Tony, the rhythm section... 🤘

[@vandergraff1123]

tony iommi is the absolute riff master no 1!!! this and symptom of the universe are the heaviest songs from sabbath!

[@thomasm.7414]

First i found this Song ridiculous. Now i love it and and appreciate Sabbath for daring work with Gillan

[@jonathandenny2870]

One of the best iommi riffs

[@Ghost-zo2zm]

one of the heaviest sabbath albums good fucking music good years in metal.

[@xIGabrieLIx]

Ian Gillan Rocks

[@YouTube-tied]

I didnt know that Richard Branson, coolest billionaire ever, let Sabbath produce and record this wicked fucking album at one of his estates. Too cool.

[@sethalos]

Doesn't get much better than this....Disturbing the Priest is my all time fav of the album, but this is soooo close.

[@jimmyd2995]

Very cool, i wish gillan stayed wirh sabbath fo a few more years

[@Fongolitus]

Nice contributions by Bev Bevan! Props!

[@xmlviking]

Actually Ian is my fav lead singer of all time. And this is my fav shhh sabbath from a vocals perspective....

[@lidoplace]

Was fortuante enough to have seen them on this tour with Quiet Riot at the Capital Centre in November 1983......loudest concert EVER...E-V-E-R!! Listening to this reminded me of how powerful and ear-shattering they were....

[@williamcarnes6794]

Was at that show….incredible set by the Sabs…miss that venue, saw some incredible bands there

[@MrBuzwuzcuz]

Met Ian at a Deep Purple show backstage hanging out, and me being a singer I had to ask...nothing at all.!! 'Freaked out' of course, but stood quietly for photos...Good mate

[@randallbrooks5787]

One monster of a song!

[@kevinshannon955]

Great album! Gillan sang his heart out on this one. Underrated metal gold.

[@leqsei1234]

i wish they had made one dvd untill fucking seperate!

[@MikeHunt90731]

Sabbath at their heaviest

[@wtfhappened1965]

ZERO THE HERO

[@korgrandi]

Wow! This version is excellent! Heavier than the one on the album!

[@helcio1960]

Ian Gillan was an honest guy while in the BS. He gave his best and his voice. Did not impose himself with his great voice and never tried to steal the throne of Ozzy. He was only one of the best rock singers in the world that passed through the BS.

[@petervenkman4466]

Ian gillan !!!! Legendary !!!!!! So Heavy so Evil !!! 😎🤘 Black sabbath is the Best metal band of all time !! 👻

[@jeffro40299]

wow, really? i love this album. i played it heavily when it was 1st released. i think i was about 17 then, and i just thought the whole album was great. real dark and brooding. some of iommi's best playing.

[@jeffro40299]

this is my favorite non-ozzy sabbath albums, and i git a bootleg of the tour, a radio show from worcester ma. this is a great album. ian does a great job on war pigs on that one too!

[@brnleague99]

I love Ozzy. I love Dio. I love Tony Martin. So tell me guys. Is "Born Again" worth getting? What I've heard of it: "Disturbing The Priest" and "Zero The Hero" is fucking righteous stuff.

[@exe2517]

, Trashed as well, but the production of the original release was really bad.

[@Balin93]

YES. It fucking rocks.

[@josesabino4014]

genial Gillan, the best of sabbath

[@michaelalbrecht3007]

Sabbath has the best Vocalists

[@wwemagazine]

They all bring something different to the table and I think that's awesome

[@NoirHammer]

Nice accompaniment by the drums in the beginning. I like how Tony slowed things down. You can hear the "bite" in his playing.

[@frnzklmmrll1012]

Every day before breakfast

[@Metalbob011]

@Ampfear It was an amazing combo! Power, heavy and Ian disturbed the peace with his vocals.

[@manduheavyvazquez5268]

Master piece ever. Greatness.

[@Saxonmarko]

my all time favvo album with them

[@stushlee6363]

I like this, technical ecstasy. and heaven and hell.

[@coreeeey420]

The sound quality on this is amazing. Is it from a bootleg or a professional recording? And Tony's solo is awesome too. "Born Again" was a great album and Gillan really fit in well with the post-Ozzy-Sabbath sound. It's really a shame that they only ever got to make one album together, because they were quite a powerful match.

[@exe2517]

I understand Born Again wasn't well received at all. I think the record will always be haunted by the awful production.

[@paulgattuso8934]

saw them at the spectrum in 83 before I left for the army..fkn jamming at its best.rock and metal forever..... ......... ..

[@68weav]

Tony's solos on this song sounds like serpent squirming.........crazy,especially toward the end of song.

[@LuisMunozCompScience]

Love it

[@jeillyrude]

i saw this tour...albany new york...i remember the drum riser too!

[@Ampfear]

Gillan Sabbath was best. Period.

[@Hzim007]

Deep Sabbath

[@vatbat3972]

To my mind - this is the most evil song ever. If you want to talk about some doom/thrash metal songs, then I'd like to say that they represent destruction/abomination, but never evil as it is heard in this song.

[@errolwaguespack7196]

Incredible

[@Ontariosound]

Is there a heavier and more evil Black Sabbath song ? No.

[@latina997]

+Ontariosound heavier no, more evil - disturbing the priest

[@MrShadowofthewind]

Try 'The devil you know' album, atom and evil, fear, neverwhere, breaking into heaven, also some others like shadow of the wind, buried alive, electric funeral, under the sun, and from the 13 album, god is dead, end of the beginning, there are plenty just as heavy.

[@nicoguarini28]

Yup! Its up there with Into the Void, Behind the wall of sleep,Lord of this World,Symptom of the Universe,Hand of Doom and the chorus break down riff of Sab bloody Sab.......

[@olecranonrebellion9976]

Yes. Disturbing the priest.

[@benmidgley1419]

Computer God???

[@jose80324]

amazing!!!

[@inextremus2]

thanks for the song .....!!

[@goldenorchid833]

ian gillan is crazy

[@tedr.miller8449]

this sound has a great groove

[@sebastianalejandroposadaca6571]

Fucking brutal

[@Terminxman]

2:35 shit gets fucking heavy

[@aaoppe]

Indeed he is!

[@MuleMan14]

second verse 2:32 bloody heavy stuff

[@leandrotan5149]

I imagine lord of hell rises slowly while this fukken song plays! Damn epic!

[@stevenharris716]

Sabbath freak from the first album. But damn this album kicks me in head from way back! Ian just kills with the golden vocal chords!

[@raymorrow170]

Yes bro. Me too. I worked graveyard shift in a depth store upstate NY buffing floors. Saw it n freaked.! Bought it the next morning.! I would later start opening albums n crank them on their stereos n stash them at the end of the bins. Armored Saint. Riot. Saxon. Raven. Grim Reaper. Icon. Endless obscure Metal.! Die hard then. Die hard now..PEACE..

[@stevenharris716]

@@raymorrow170 nice!!!! When Metal ruled the world!

[@luizeduardosilveirasantos5984]

Esta versão é melhor do que o live do Born Again delux Edition, o vocal está bem mais preciso, chega a ser hipnotizante

[@brnleague99]

@gman5531 Tony Iommi has been quoted as saying he likes the songs...but the production of the album, not so much.

[@thetruemorke]

Guns'n'Roses ripped that Main Riff for Welcome to the Jungle

[@richardhincemon]

Paradise City 😅

[@dario1837]

in my mind this song is Sabbath's attempt to a sort of rap; it is probably the most "spoken" Gillan's song after "no laughing in heaven"

[@chris55068]

Bev Bevan one of the hardest hitting drummers

[@josecarlosdossantoscarlos7472]

Sem comentários 🎸🎸🎸🎸🗿🗿🗿

[@genemys]

the way Ian sings this live is much better than studio even though his voice is messing up a bit in this clip

[@spacecowboy1956]

@lidoplace saw that tour in buffalo ny.....i agree about the volume :P

[@nazzare79]

@conker2021 No, in fact Gillan is superior to Dio but they are very different singers and a true comparison can't be done...

[@michaels2boys]

@brnleague99 / I love the whole lp. Till DeHumanizer came along 10 years later this was prob the heaviest scariest album Sabbath had done since Masters of Reality!

[@laroccacounty1]

This is the good stuff right here.

[@mikeacuna1626]

Absolutely Mystifying

[@sawiola55]

@brnleague99 hell you must have it !! i bought my self week ago a deluxe edition !! really worth it !!

[@toyomaru90]

@BlackSabbath1776 That's right

[@jonasdalus2999]

The besttttttttt fucks muito bommmmm tenho esse álbum born again muito bom

[@jamesleroygarcia106]

Bev Bevan?? Didn't he play drums for ELO?

[@Farwell3d]

Yup. He had two brief stints with the Sabs in the 80's, but I don't think he ever hit the studio with them

[@chris55068]

Yep he did. He was loud on early Elo music eg. On the third day and eldorado. Elo's late 70s stuff he may have been restricted.. probably Sabbath is more of his style

[@Farwell3d]

Are you sure? I thought that was Eric Singer?

[@yngvebalmsteen9174]

That's the guy, haha!

[@marcusstreets9887]

The Move and ELO, then ELO II. Another Brummie of course. Underrated drummer.

[@billgeezeriommi]

@gibsongold1970 who said it was about ozzy?

[@ejret]

this song influenced Welcome to the jungle by Guns n roses and probably also Enter sandman by Metallica.

[@inthered6796]

Outright - INTHERED

[@TreatzTMA]

Anyone know what your date this is from?

[@frnzklmmrll1012]

Que Fight Club Into

[@DoctorPretorious616]

@Pata1 And Danzig also stole it for "Her Black Wings"! Their former guitarist John Christ admits it.

[@thomaskaba5600]

Ian starts brillant here, but then his voices declines rapidly... At 1:24 you can hear the turning point of his voice. First the high stratospheric screams in the intro, the first two verses were ok, but afterwards he seemed to lost his voice and sucks through the rest of his song. A pity. Nevertheless Zero The Hero and Disturbing The Priest are the most evil sounding and most heavy Sabbath tracks. Born Again is an underrated hidden gem in Metal history.

[@steve00055]

sounds pretty good live... i remember the music video that went with this track... it started out as a monsterous zombie like traging a body in some dongeon... and tyrants were back to life ...one of them was hitler

[@rimmitingfool4128]

Drums really do save live performances

[@sergeydrokin2820]

Gillan killed his voice during this tour as I understand

[@Pata1]

Guns & Roses stole the beat and used it for "Paradise City".

[@samisgoingham9362]

Yep

[@pedropacheco5879]

If you speed it up, maybe

[@JohnLutherable]

wasn't this in Hercules?

[@ami2evil]

...would like to hear Ozzy do this one

[@ami2evil]

Back 11 years later... Somehow, I'm still "alive"...

[@97warlock]

oh,its just live Audio

[@tatyanaaleksandrovich3469]

Место Гиллана в Deep Purple, не его это группа, хотя он неплохо справлялся и здесь

[@MrPanchoguate]

Mordiendome los huecos por no poder ido a costa rica....

[@nazzare79]

Well Ian Gillan is great singer, but he fit to Black Sabbath. This performance shows that. Enoug Deep Purple in Black Sabbath at the times of "Born Again" album to make it a masterpiece...he destroy Ozzy in one second...

[@FazersOnStun]

I love this album and song but his voice was pretty darn weak in every live recording I've heard from this tour :-(

[@kenruger9417]

You tell Tony Iommi he is wrong! He's not & good luck with that.

[@joullion]

these are lyrics!!! >:]]

[@andymendoza3152]

1:57 Gillan se equivocó en la letra

[@jiovannizuccar1]

Dont know if It was meant to be this way, but i always get the impression that Gillan sings this song in a pseudo-rap manner

[@markoutram7589]

I'd have to say that 'Born Again' is probably one of the worst Sabbath albums ever BUT there's still a couple of cracking numbers on it : overall, this one is the best of them (&, for me, one of the best in their entire output - no disrespect to any other members past, present or future) & the sign of a truly great band that, even in times of such low fortunes, they could pull off a track like this. Thanks for posting.

[@caseyjones9559]

Mark Outram Thrashed, Keep it warm, Zero the hero and Born again saves the album and makes it far better than Technical extacy. Never say die was no good album either except for the title track and perhaps Johnny blade.

[@jonathanwpressman]

I agree, overall poor with a few gems. There are times when I really dig this one. From Seventh Star and beyond it just got way too soft and diluted. I think this tour must have been awesome and I imagine that the shows with Ian and Bev were way more Sabbath than the record.

[@albertdavila6808]

Mark Outram my favorite Sabbath album by far!!!!

[@jamesleroygarcia106]

Casey Jones ...hmmm... I think "Technical Ecstasy" was the weakest album from Ozzy era Sabbath, I much prefer "Never Say Die" which is the album that Ozzy would always call "rubbish"... Can't believe you didn't mention "Shockwave" where Toni's guitar tone can labotomize you... "Juniors Eyes" is also a great song, Geezers bass steals that one...