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''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 an English musician, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the pioneering Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded and performed with Heave ...
of
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. The album also features
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vocalist
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.


Album information

The song "Giving Up the Ghost" was lyrically directed at
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and his continuation of the Black Sabbath name at the time. "Detective 27" indirectly references
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whose first appearance in 1939 was in
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' Detective Comics #27. The song "The Invisible" was featured on the soundtrack to the 1995 film ''
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'', 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 ''
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'' 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
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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 an English musician, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the pioneering Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded and performed with Heave ...
– bass guitar, keyboards, vocals *
Burton C. Bell Burton Christopher Bell (born February 19, 1969) is an American musician. He is best known as the co-founder and former frontman of the industrial metal band Fear Factory. Until 2021 he was the only member to perform on all of the band's albums. ...
– vocals * Pedro Howse – guitar *
Deen Castronovo Deen Joseph 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 sings for the bands Journey, ...
– drums


References


External links


Plastic Planet at Geezer Butler's websiteReview of 'Plastic Planet' on Yahoo! Music
1995 debut albums GZR albums {{1990s-metal-album-stub