Search - Ozzy Osbourne :: No Rest for the Wicked

A devil with a crucifix...

Mark H. | Hanson, MA USA | 04/03/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Ozzy finished the `80's strongly with yet another new lineup featuring another guitar prodigy in Zakk Wylde. This partnership has been almost as long and enduring as the one with Sharon and Wylde has become another metal icon whether in his long career with the Oz or in his own Black Label Society. `No Rest for the Wicked' which came in the fall of 1988 is probably the heaviest record in Ozzy Osbourne's career due in no part to Mr. Wylde's ultra aggressive guitar style. The album is also a much more consistent and stronger LP the either of its two predecessors (the Jake E. Lee records, though I love Badlands!) "Miracle Man" is a great opener and a definitive shot at the hypocrisy of televangelists which had targeted Ozzy and his ilk for years. "Crazy Babies" and "Breaking All the Rules" both received some strong airplane though nothing to rival his earlier output. Bob Daisley came back to write most of the lyrics and they seem to be an improvement over much of his work on `Ultimate Sin'. Ozzy even revisits the subject of alcoholism in "Demon Alcohol" which is a fine cut but doesn't hold a candle to "Suicide Solution". `No Rest' is an enjoyable piece of madman mayhem that showed an artist who though again working with new collaborators could be depended upon to deliver the goods."