Gathered in Their Masses Details

A few weeks ago, it was announced that there will be a live DVD/Blu-Ray from the current Black Sabbath 13 tour.   This should come as NO SURPRISE to anyone, honestly.   What I am a little surprised about is that it is from the Australian tour earlier in the year.   I would have thought they would have recorded a few shows, and picked from what is the best available.  I know some of the gigs from the US tour got some rave reviews.    But anyway, that’s an opinion.  Let’s talk about what they announced earlier today.

Gathered in their Masses Temp DVD ArtComing on November 26th (Nov 25th outside of US/North America) will be “Live: Gathered in their Masses”, a recording of the Melbourne Australia gigs back on Apr 29th & May 1st.   From that will come several formats.  It’s a move similar to the 13 release, actually in that regard.  There isn’t just a single format available.  Here is what you will be able to purchase:

  • Plain DVD
  • Plan Blu-Ray
  • DVD w/Audio CD
  • Blu-Ray w/Audio CD
  • Another Deluxe Box

It would also appear, at least initially that the Deluxe Box will only be available from the official Sabbath site, and the record label (who the official site links through to anyways).

DVD/Blu-Ray Packaging

If you read through the official press release, it says that the DVD will come packaged in an “Amaray Box”.   This isn’t anything “fancy”, it’s just a plain DVD case.  Amaray is the name of a company that manufactures DVD/Blu-Ray cases, and the “Amaray Box” (or case) has been around for a VERY long time.  In fact, if you have any DVD’s at your house, you probably already have a ton of them.  It’s also known as a “keep case“.   I’m guessing the DVD with the CD in it will just be a regular DVD case with one of those “pages” where a second disc is held, but that last part is personal speculation.

Likewise, the Blu-Ray version with the CD will be pretty much the same I’d wager.  A standard Blu-Ray case with an extra “page” for the additional audio CD.   So Unless you’re going for the Deluxe Box, you’re going to get a DVD or a Blu-Ray case.  How many discs are in there will be determined by what version you buy specifically.

Deluxe Box

The Deluxe box will be a similar kind of thing to the Deluxe box for the 13 album.  Just no vinyl.  ha.   Anyways, the contents of the Deluxe box are:

  • Blu-Ray of concert.  Said Blu-Ray will include “exclusive” bonus material extras.
  • 2 DVD’s.  The DVD’s are a content mirror of the Blu-Ray, so you’re not getting even MORE, you’re getting the same video material on more than one format.
  • CD of the concert (presumably the same one in the other formats)
  • Poster
  • Signed Set List replica
  • Guitar Picks
  • Concert Ticket replica

The big draw for me here would be the additional content on the Blu-Ray.   I initially wondered why they had both the DVD & Blu-Ray in there with the same content, but then it occurred to me that they only have to make one copy of the Deluxe Box, and don’t need two versions, one for each disc format.   The cost to them to put the extra in there is minimal, I’m sure.

Gathered in their Masses Deluxe Box

Track Listings

This is where some people will probably have a beef with the various packagings.  In particular the audio CD.  Mostly because it is not the whole show.   You cannot (as far as I can tell) order just the audio CD on its own.   It is only available as a pack-in with the other formats (unless you specifically buy one that doesn’t have it).   The full concert would have needed two CDs, and there is just one here, so the audio CD is rather crippled insofar as what is available on that format.   Here, check the various track listings..

CD Audio

  1. War Pigs – Live
  2. Loner – Live
  3. Black Sabbath – Live
  4. Methademic – Live
  5. N.I.B. – Live
  6. Iron Man – Live
  7. End Of The Beginning – Live
  8. Fairies Wear Boots – Live
  9. God Is Dead? – Live
  10. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Intro)/Paranoid – Live

Blu-Ray

  1. War Pigs – Live
  2. Into The Void – Live
  3. Loner – Live
  4. Snowblind – Live
  5. Black Sabbath – Live
  6. Behind The Wall Of Sleep – Live
  7. N.I.B. – Live
  8. Methademic – Live
  9. Fairies Wear Boots – Live
  10. Symptom Of The Universe – Live
  11. Iron Man – Live
  12. End Of The Beginning – Live
  13. Children Of The Grave – Live
  14. God Is Dead? – Live
  15. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Intro) / Paranoid – Live
  16. Under The Sun – Live (Deluxe Edition Box Set Blu-Ray ONLY)
  17. Dirty Women – Live (Deluxe Edition Box Set Blu-Ray ONLY)
  18. Electric Funeral – Live (Deluxe Edition Box Set Blu-Ray ONLY)
  19. Interview With Black Sabbath  (Deluxe Edition Box Set Blu-Ray ONLY)
  20. Show Day (Behind the Scenes)  (Deluxe Edition Box Set Blu-Ray ONLY)

DVD

  1. War Pigs – Live
  2. Into The Void – Live
  3. Loner – Live
  4. Snowblind – Live
  5. Black Sabbath – Live
  6. Behind The Wall Of Sleep – Live
  7. N.I.B. – Live
  8. Methademic – Live
  9. Fairies Wear Boots – Live
  10. Symptom Of The Universe – Live
  11. Iron Man – Live
  12. End Of The Beginning – Live
  13. Children Of The Grave – Live
  14. God Is Dead? – Live
  15. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Intro) / Paranoid – Live

DVD 2 (only in Deluxe Box Set)

  1. Under the Sun – Live 
  2. Dirty Women – Live
  3. Electric Funeral – Live
  4. Interview With Black Sabbath – Live
  5. Show Day (Behind the Scenes) – Live

Ordering Links

Here are links for you to buy these things.   A quick note.   If you pre-order these from the Amazon.com links ON MY SITE, I will get a small cut of the sale.  That will go towards helping the upkeep of this place.  Obviously, if you’re buying the Deluxe, you have to go through the official site, but if you are buying any other format besides the box, please use the links on this page.  It helps out this site.  Thanks.

It would appear that the Canadian ordering links also have some packages available that let you buy a T-Shirt with whatever format it is you are ordering.  I cannot find this shirt option available for the US or “Rest of World” links.  Strange.

One other remark about Amazon pre-orders.  Their prices when you pre-order tend to be much higher than what they are when something actually ships.  The prices you see now (as I write this on Oct 4th) will almost certainly be lower (especially for the Blu-Ray w/CD) than that when the item actually ships.

My Thoughts

So basically, if you want the full gig on DVD & Blu-Ray you have to buy the Deluxe Box set.   The regular DVD/Blu-Ray as well as the DVD/Blu-Ray with the audio CD will not have the entire concert on them.   That is DEFINITELY NOT for reasons of space, it’s a marketing decision to hold back the whole concert for the deluxe box.

This also should not be a surprise based on the way “13” was marketed.   This even to me comes down to the “replica autographed set list sheet” from the Deluxe Box here.  It mimics to me the replica autographed lyric sheets from 13’s deluxe box.     One lesson possibly learned this time around though is to put the “full track listing” in the Deluxe Box.  I know it pissed off a lot of people who bought the 13 Deluxe Box that you didn’t get ALL the tracks in that.  You still had to go buy the Best Buy edition to get an additional studio track.  It would appear that if you buy the Deluxe Box, you’ll get all the available tracks for this release.  Of course, they could always surprise us and announce a “Best Buy Limited Edition” with addtl info.  Man, I hope not, for two reasons.  1) That kind of thing is scummy, and 2) It’s Best Buy.  Ugh.    Sarcasm aside, I really hope they don’t do that here.

This package comes from the concerts recorded on Apr 29 & May 1 in Melbourne, Australia.  I wonder if those who were at the concerts, or those who have bootlegs will be able to pick out which show which track is from.

As I’ve said all along, a live DVD/CD/whatever from this tour was inevitable.  The only thing I would have hoped was that the release would have included at least some of (if not all) of the four still unreleased studio tracks from the 13 sessions (Cry All Night, Isolated Man, Season of the Dead, & Hanging By a Thread).  But unless they’re just unannounced (not likely), they’re not going to be here.   SO, somewhere down the line these tracks will be released on SOMETHING, and we’ll have the chance to buy them again (A “13 Full Edition” in a year or something?  Who knows).

There’s also the issue of Digital releases.  iTunes and whatnot.   These days concerts are also released digitally, and while I haven’t heard anything about this package being made available on digital, I wouldn’t be too surprised if an iTunes purchase of the Blu-Ray/DVD material shows up too.  But I admit right now that is personal speculation.

To sum this up, I think it’s a worthy release, despite all the fiddling with track listings.  To me, the target is Blu-Ray.  In this day and age, plain DVDs are a dinosaur.  Blu-Ray.  High Def.    Just wish the regular Blu-Ray has all the content that the Deluxe Edition Blu-Ray has.

Below are a couple of video trailers for this box, one produced for this news is listed first.   Also is the formal press release from the band about this.

Videos

 

 

 

Press Release

BLACK SABBATH ‘LIVE…GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES’

DUE OUT
NOVEMBER 26

IN A VARIETY OF FORMATS: DVD, BLU-RAY,
COMBO PACKS AND DELUXE BOX

PREORDERS AVAILABLE BEGINNING TODAY AT
BLACKSABBATH.COM AND AMAZON

BLACK SABBATH’s triumphant 2013 tour–which kicked off earlier this year in Australia–can now be seen by fans around the world via the forthcoming “Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses” (Vertigo/Republic).  Preorders for “Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses” are available now at www.blacksabbath.com and www.amazon.com. A preview of “Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses”–featuring the first-ever live performances of songs from the band’s 2013 critically acclaimed 13 album, along with BLACK SABBATH classics–can be seen at www.blacksabbath.com 

Here are the “Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses” track listings:

BLU-RAY and DVD track listing is as follows:

1.         War Pigs
2.         Into The Void
3.         Loner
4.         Snowblind
5.         Black Sabbath
6.         Behind The Wall Of Sleep
7.         N.I.B.
8.        Methademic
9.         Fairies Wear Boots
10.       Symptom Of The Universe
11.       Iron Man
12.       End Of The Beginning
13.       Children Of The Grave
14.       God Is Dead?
15.       Paranoid

 

CD track listing is as follows:

1.         War Pigs
2.         Loner
3.         Black Sabbath
4.         Methademic
5.         N.I.B
6.         Iron Man
7.         End Of The Beginning
8.         Fairies Wear Boots
9.         God Is Dead?
10.       Paranoid 

Due out November 26“Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses” will be available via a variety of formats.  Options include:

● DVD standalone

● Blu-ray standalone

● Blu-ray/CD combo pack with a CD featuring live audio from the show, all packaged in a Blu Ray case

● DVD/CD combo pack with a CD featuring live audio from the show, all packaged in an Amaray box

● Deluxe Box with a Blu-ray disc of live show with exclusive bonus visual extras/two DVD discs/a CD featuring live audio from the show/poster/signed set list/photo booklet/guitar picks/official show “ticket”

“Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses” was recorded April 29 and May 12013 in Melbourne, Australia when the band–OZZY OSBOURNE (vocals), TONY IOMMI (guitar) and GEEZER BUTLER (bass)–kicked off their world tour in support of their 13album, which entered the charts at #1 in 13 countries (including their first #1 in the U.S.). Meanwhile, BLACK SABBATH will head to South America and Mexico inOctober for a headlining stadium our (where they’re expected to play to more than 300,000 fans) and then onto Europe in November andDecember.

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