As previously reported, Sanctuary UK has confirmed a May 30th street date for the long-awaited Deluxe Edition reissue of BLACK SABBATH's under-rated classic Born Again which featured ex-DEEP PURPLE singer (at the time) Ian Gillan on vocals. Check out the front and back artwork below:

The updated tracklisting is as follows:

Disc 1 (original album):

'Trashed'

'Stonehenge'

'Disturbing The Priest'

'The Dark'

'Zero The Hero'

'Digital Bitch'

'Hot Line'

'Keep It Warm'

Disc 2:

'The Fallen' (Previously Unreleased Album Session Outtake)

'Stonehenge' (Extended Version)

Live at the Reading Festival, Saturday August 27 1983

(BBC Friday Rock Show broadcast):

'Hot Line'

'War Pigs' (live)

'Black Sabbath' (live)

'The Dark'

'Zero The Hero'

'Digital Bitch'

'Iron Man' (live)

'Smoke On The Water' (live)

'Paranoid' (live)

According to Wikipedia, Gillan had first turned the offer to join Black Sabbath down but his manager later convinced him to a meeting with guitarist Tony Iommi and the band's bass guitarist, Geezer Butler. Iommi and Butler met with Gillan at The Bear public house in Oxford and Gillan officially joined the band in February 1983. The album also featured Bill Ward, the original Black Sabbath drummer who was newly sober.

The album was released in October 1983 and was a commercial success. Despite complaints about the album artwork and the raw production, it was the highest charting Black Sabbath album in the United Kingdom since Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and became an American Top 40 hit.

BW&BK;'s Martin Popoff has written that "if any album in the history of Black Sabbath is getting a new set of horns up from metalheads here deep into the new century, it's Born Again.

(Thanks Black-sabbath.com)