BLACK SABBATH - TURN UP THE NIGHT - LIMITED EDITION PICTURE DISC
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Although there is a broad consensus in the metal world that anthems dedicated to the dark side of the universe involves dissonant and unpleasant approaches to songwriting. Suppose that there are actual entities that make up the dark side of life in some parallel universe. Would they celebrate their nature with songs depicting themselves as cruel, hideous beasts? Or would they perhaps see themselves in a different light? Well, according to Ronnie Dio and the rest of Black Sabbath, this is not necessarily the case, or at least that is what the title song of this single seems to imply.
“Turn Up The Night” may come across as stylistically ironic, having a very cheerful sounding melody being sun in a fairly joyous manner by the 2nd leader of the Sabbath army, yet also having a dark toned guitar and bass heavy sound underneath it. But if you look at it as being demons looking at themselves and critiquing their own nature, this song would suggest that these dark minions see themselves as being the light. And being their own self-proclaimed light wielders, they would no doubt use elaborate guitar solos for their rock anthems, perhaps drenched in rapid back and forth pentatonic licks with a ton of wah pedal noise filtering it through.
After the celebration ends, what ensues is a hold over from the previous album in “Lonely Is The World”, which reaches back a little bit into Sabbath’s jam-rock oriented era in the early 70s. There are essentially two riffs driving this along, one of them essentially a bluesy drone consisting of two chords/notes. There are two various solo sections, both of them drawn out and heavily improvisatory in nature. Tony Iommi said himself that at the time it was his favorite song for soloing over, probably because it gave him a chance to pull the microphone away from Ronnie for a few minutes.
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