Whereas Tony Iommi took the blues and morphed it into a kind of occult boogie, and Jimmy Page covered it in testosterone and bravado, Ishima takes the blues and turns it in on itself, all serpentine and mysterious, with an intensity that is still startling now. ![]() It bears noting that Ishima's guitar can buzz and twitch in ways that Western guitarists never touched. Yes, other FTB albums had their share of darkness, but nowhere was it so complete, so oppressive, so relentless. Once the listener gets past a rather odd opening track (a happy sounding radio ad, advertising one of the band's gigs in Canada,) they're instantaneously plunged into a well of doom that makes contemporary Sabbath albums sound perky by comparison. ![]() "Made In Japan" is, hands down, the darkest album FTB ever made.
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