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Fantasy Horror at its Best

Robert Chica | 04/15/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Black Sabbath always pushed the limits of lyrics and the Blues. The Blues are about "DOOING THE DEVIL'S DUE", and Old Europe is full of Terror and Mystery, with Tony Iommi always having his powerful JD Guitar being played to great and classic Blues rifts, which dance to lyrics that are about such things. Remember that the band named itself after a film that was about "VAMPIRES".

On a few reviews they say that the album is superb but ignored. They are so right. Tony and the late mighty master of the Drum who was Cozy Powell wrote with singer and lyricist Tony Martin, some of the darkest and most high pitched music that they were to ever write in thier careers, of which it is said that this was the most frightining album that they ever wrote, in dealing with the Occult and other such Terror.

My favorite songs are Kill In the Spirit World and Call of The Wild, with Kill In the Spirit World being a song that makes me think about the old Mystery films, put in Clash of the Titans if one could say, while Call of The Wild for me has always been a Bond Song rejected. The sound is too remining of the Bond Theme, and as for the other songs one will have to hear them for themselves, but they are amazing.

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This is a really, really great album.

Pistols Fan | Nevada | 06/04/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I got into Black Sabbath back in the mid-80's, when I would find albums like "Born Again", "Paranoid", and "Mob Rules" in the bargain tape bin at Gemco, so I really got to hear a great sampling of music from ALL eras of Black Sabbath. And let me tell ya, I loved it all. Then "Seventh Star" came out and it was a radically new direction, but I loved it just the same. After that, I sort of forgot about Black Sabbath for a while.



Flash foreward to 1989, I saw a copy of "Headless Cross" and thought, "Wow, this looks really interesting, I wonder what it sounds like?". So I picked it up, and it quickly became one of my favorite albums of all time and remains so till this day. The songs were all so unbelievably great. They sounded so fresh and well crafted, and they still sound just as fresh today. With this album, Black Sabbath returned to their roots, lyrically.. there are songs about the Devil, about Kills in the spirit world, about Death Calling.. all sung to what I can only describe as very UPBEAT heavy metal, and the results are this landmark CD. From beginning to end, this CD is nothing short of BRILLIANT. Tony Iommi, and everyone else in the band were at thier peak when they made this record. It sounds like it was a hell of a lot of fun to make as it is to listen to. If you buy only ONE Tony Martin era Sabbath CD, this is it."