Dehumanizer

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For the album by Dance or Die, see Dehumanizer (Dance or Die album).

Dehumanizer is an album by British heavy metal band Black Sabbath released in 1992. It is the first album in over a decade to feature Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice.

Musically, it is one of Sabbath's heaviest albums. Song themes vary from a computer worshipped as a god, to televangelists, to individualism.

Although the band lineup is the same as 1981's Mob Rules, the musical direction is very different - not only because of the aforementioned heaviness, but the songs are also darker, more pessimistic and more intense, probably, than in every earlier Sabbath album.

Ronnie James Dio himself would follow this musical / lyrical direction in his next two solo albums, Strange Highways and Angry Machines.

A version of this album was also recorded with former frontman Tony Martin on vocals. Dio considered leaving the band for a very brief time after his vocals were already finished, and the rest of the band brought in Martin to re-record them. Dio returned to the sessions shortly thereafter and his version was used in the end. The version with Martin supposedly still exists, but a circulated bootleg has yet to appear.

Commercially, this album is regarded as a resurgence for Sabbath. The album placed in the Top 40 in the U.K.

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