''Plastic Planet'' is the debut studio album by
GZR (known at the time as g//z/r), a
heavy metal band featuring
Geezer Butler
Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July 1949) is a English musician and songwriter. He is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded and performed with Heaven & Hell ...
of
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were an English rock music, rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward (musician), Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy met ...
. The album also features
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989. Throughout the band's career, they have released ten full-length albums and have evolved through a succession of sounds, all in their main style of industrial metal. ...
vocalist
Burton C. Bell.
Album information
The song "Giving Up the Ghost" was lyrically directed at
Tony Iommi
Anthony Frank Iommi () (born 19 February 1948) is a British musician. He co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and was the band's guitarist, leader and primary composer and sole continuous member for nearly five decades. I ...
and his continuation of the Black Sabbath name at the time. "Detective 27" indirectly references
Batman whose first appearance in 1939 was in
DC Comics
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DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...
' Detective Comics #27.
The song "The Invisible" was featured on the soundtrack to the 1995 film ''
Mortal Kombat'', although the song did not appear in the film itself. The artist on the album was listed as "Geezer" instead of "g//z/r".
Samples from the British TV movie ''
The Woman in Black'' can be heard on "Séance Fiction".
Although no commercial single was released, a CD promotional EP was issued by TVT Records in the USA (catalogue TVT 6014-2P), with full colour inserts. The track list of this was 1) Cycle of Sixty (radio mix) 2) X13 (radio mix) 3) Drive Boy Shooting (live) 4) Detective 27 (live) 5) House Of Clouds (live). The live tracks were recorded at
Majestic Theater in
Detroit
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in February 1996.
Track listing
All songs written by Geezer Butler and Pedro Howse.
# "Catatonic Eclipse" – 6:10
# "Drive Boy, Shooting" – 4:17
# "Giving Up the Ghost" – 5:12
# "Plastic Planet" – 4:19
# "The Invisible" – 3:43
# "Seance Fiction" – 5:55
# "House of Clouds" – 3:43
# "Detective 27" – 3:09
# "X13" – 4:05
# "Sci-Clone" – 3:43
# "Cycle of Sixty" – 3:02
Japan edition bonus tracks
# "Drive Boy, Shooting (live)" – 4:14
# "Detective 27 (live)" – 3:10
# "House of Clouds (live)" – 3:35
Personnel
*
Geezer Butler
Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July 1949) is a English musician and songwriter. He is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded and performed with Heaven & Hell ...
– bass guitar, keyboards, vocals
*
Burton C. Bell – vocals
* Pedro Howse – guitar
*
Deen Castronovo
Deen J. Castronovo (born August 17, 1964) is an American drummer and singer, best known for being a member of classic rock band Journey and hard rock acts Bad English and Hardline. He currently plays drums and shares lead vocals for the bands Jo ...
– drums
References
External links
Plastic Planet at Geezer Butler's websiteReview of 'Plastic Planet' on Yahoo! Music
1995 debut albums
GZR albums
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