We were waiting for this?

Seems the fascination with all things Ozzy just won't quit. An Estonian record company has released an album of Black Sabbath songs played by a quintet specializing in music from the Middle Ages and singing in Latin. ``If you take away the massive wall of sound from many Sabbath songs, what you have is pure 14th century music,'' producer Mihkel Raud claimed.

The 12-track album - called ``Sabbatum,'' Latin for ``sabbath'' - includes ``Wheels of Confusion'' (``Rotae Confusionis'') and ``War Pigs'' (``Verres Militares'') in slow, minimalist versions that sound like they could be used at mass in the Sistine Chapel. ``We went at it with the fantasy that these songs in Latin were actually the original versions, and that Black Sabbath found and used them,'' Raud said. ``Usually ... albums try to add modernity to known music. We did it the other way round.''

Something like 1,200 CDs have been sold, mainly to U.S. buyers via the Internet since the album was released in March. Raud worked with the music group Rondellus, who have three previous albums of mainstream sacred music, to arrange and record the Black Sabbath tunes. He decided not to ask them to record Black Sabbath songs referring directly to the devil. ``I felt that asking them to sing, 'My name is Lucifer, please take my hand' would have been too much,'' he said.

After listening to a couple of tunes on the album's site (brutally slow, w/ lots of time outs for rebuffering).......if you didn't know they were sabbath tunes, you'd be hard pressed to guess what they were.