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The music of Black Sabbath like you've never heard it

This record is the result of a gang of New York City musician friends getting together on a sunny sunday in May 2006 at Peter Karls Recording studio in Brooklyn with the intent of recording a few spontaneous renditions of their favorite Black Sabbath tunes and to have a ball.

Rocket Engine did its first gig at a dive bar in Chinatown on Manhattan after Eivind Opsvik was contacted by said club about doing a midnight show. Eivind had at this period rediscovered Black Sabbath (in his early teens his cousin lent him Black Sabbaths Master of Reality on vinyl and it made a lingering impression) and he thought it would be fun to get some friends together and play these tunes, and fun it was. Although the gig had an audience of four and ended with the sound guy saying I think thats enough guys it was agreed that an reprise performance was a lovely thought, so almost a year later a studio date was booked.

Rocket Engine consists of some of NYCs most adventurous young musicians from the free improvisation, indie rock and jazz scenes. Rocket Engines members come from such other bands as Dynamite Club, Antibalas, Opsvik & Jennings, The Monkees, Fat Mama, Beyondo and The UP.

In a way this band represents the missing link between early heavy metal and free jazz. What Rocket Engine connect with in Black Sabbaths early music is the fact that its very honest and direct music, something it has in common with early free jazz/impro before it got weighed down by rules and pretense. (Albert Ayler and Ozzy Osbourne - kindred spirits?).
So the result is free spirited and spontaneous versions of these beloved classics.