Scream

Ozzy Osbourne - Scream

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Artist: Ozzy Osbourne
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2010-06-21
Music Label: Epic
Product features:

OSBOURNE OZZY SCREAM

Soundtracks:

Let It Die
Let Me Here You Scream
Soul Sucker
Life Won't Wait
Diggin' Me Down
Crucify
Fearless
Time
I Want It More
Latimer's Mercy
I Love You All

Music reviews of Scream

Music Review: Ozzy in 2010. The latest chapter in the madman's saga.
Rating: 4 Stars

Having been a fan of Ozzy since I was a teen, since around when The Ultimate Sin came out in 1986, I've had a good chance to see and enjoy the progression of his solo career. I'm definitely a fan of his music, from his Sabbath days till now, and own his entire catalog, including various bootlegs. Please note, I'm not a fan of The Osbournes tv show, nor his family, and I especially detest his wife $haron (She still has egg on her face when it comes down to it. Up The Irons!).

I hear some people moaning about Scream saying that it is not a metal album, or not metal enough. Honestly, when I want kick ass metal, I don't go to modern Ozzy (I'm going to listen to Black Sabbath, Dio, Iron Maiden, Grand Magus, Wolf, The Sword, Blood of The Sun, Opeth, and others). Ever since the Ozzy album The Ultimate Sin (and some would argue earlier) Ozzy has had that poppy metal/hard rock type music. Though I think the first three solo Ozzy albums are brilliant, classic metal, things have somewhat changed over time. Ozzy is the way he is. And with Scream he does his particular thing rather well.

Scream follows in the footsteps of the last Ozzy album Black Rain. Scream is more pop metal or more modern metal than the classic earlier metal that Ozzy is so well known for. If you thought that Black Rain was overproduced, involved too much of a reliance on pro-tools, etc., well you probably will not like Scream much either. Black Rain has really grown on me as a heavy modern (so-to-speak) Ozzy album. And Scream really takes it one step further, and is one or two notches up the heaviness ladder. It makes all the sense in the world to me. It is a heavy album, and yet very smooth at the same time. All the elements that Ozzy has begun to shape since around the album No More Tears onward are all present here. From his love for the Beatles (which pops up ever so subtly here and there on this album) to some very nice little touches in a couple places that remind one of the presence of Randy Rhoads and the glory solo years. But overall, the sound we get here is heavy, creeping, rocking modern madman Ozzy.

And this new guitarist Gus, he certainly can hold his own. He has a lot of the heaviness that Zakk has on past Ozzy albums (and that is part of the Ozzy sound), but Gus also seems to have some very nice touches of his own. Only time, live playing, and a future album that we can know he has had more of a hand in writing, will really tell though. We shall see. I like him so far.

Don't expect this to be anything like the 1980's. This is OZZY 2010. Clearly, some people are not going to get it. It might be helpful for some people if they would go and watch the Ozzy video for the song Scream a well as the past video for the Ozzy song Gets Me Through from his album Down to Earth. These two videos really seem to go well together and are part of the more recent Ozzy image, feel, sound, etc. There is something here that kinda comes through on this album Scream. The creeping, hard rocking, master madman. This is not highly "technical" musicianship with all skill and no soul. This is Ozzy doing what he has always done at least when it comes to music, and that is, be entertaining. The kinda stuff that rocks AND sticks in your head, you can shout to, and more. I think Ozzy is trying to be up to date, he is giving us what he thinks is modern. And that is pretty much what he has always done. It is Ozzy 2010 ! If other people were to try and pull this off, do an album like this, I probably would not listen, but I find that I like the particular way that Ozzy is doing this and that he brings something classic to this sort of modern metal sound. I see how it connects to his past albums, I find it appealing.

Liking this album is not about the Ozzy name or status. If Ozzy put out a rap album I wouldn't care and I don't care about some of the songs he has made for some people, songs that I find pretty awful. Scream to me is a logical progression. As much as I would prefer him to go back to the way he used to make stuff Like Diary of a Madman and Bark at the Moon, I think Scream makes all the sense in the world for a modern, older Ozzy trying to keep up with the times. It is in perfect continuity with everything he has done since No More Tears. You see, with Ultimate Sin he tried pandering way to hard too to the commercial ideas at the time (though I still find that album fun), then he slowly started doing what he wanted with No Rest For The Wicked, he tried to get back to a less commercial yet heavier rock sound. Then, he eventually developed what he probably considers a balanced style of giving the audience what he thinks they want in light of his own interests. Before that, during Blizzard, Diary, and Bark, it seems to me that he simply listened more to his guitarists when making albums. That is why those albums sound as simply pure and as great as they do.

And, last but not least, a few words on lyrical subject matter. Actually, there are some well written lyrics on this album, all within the typical themes and ideas of things Ozzy has always sang about with the people that help him write these things or write for him period. And, once again, Ozzy is pushing barriers around a bit, expressing doubt and frustration with religion "You're saving the saved, men and women enslaved, propagating the messiah conception. The rich getting richer, paint you into the picture, give the poor immaculate deception. Where are you Father? .... Sanctimonious promises broken... You're just a self-made messiah, selling brimstone and fire..." Etc., For some, they are probably going to run around and cry blasphemy and do the whole sackcloth and ashes thing about this. Whatever. For Ozzy, I don't think these lyrics are really new or anything that he hasn't done before elsewhere, but some people will probably moan about it. And some crazies might even go in the complete opposite direction with the engaging way a few of the lyrics are written and miss the point entirely and ignore or try to reinterpret the stance Ozzy has always taken against religion (and this album is no different when it comes down to it, thank goodness). Ozzy still turning heads after all this time. Go figure.

All in all, I'd say this is certainly a step in the right direction for Ozzy and the kind of music he is doing these days. Do I miss the Diary of A Madman days, and the Bark at the Moon time period?? You bet I do. But what Ozzy is doing now is fitting, makes sense for where he's at and what has come before, and blows away a lot of other people that are not even nearly in the same league. Ozzy still has it. I recommend you get it.

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Description of Scream

Scream is Ozzy Osbourne's first album in three years and 10th studio album overall. The album was produced by OZZY and Kevin Churko, both of whom did the same honors for OZZY's 2007 worldwide million-seller Black Rain, the album. The multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer recorded most of the album at his Los Angeles home studio, The Bunker, and co-wrote all the songs, primarily with Churko. Notably, the album marks the first appearance of OZZY's new guitar player, Gus G. OZZY's band also features bassist Blasko, drummer Tommy Clufetos and keyboardist Adam Wakeman.