BLACK SABBATH — Seventh Star (review)

BLACK SABBATH — Seventh Star album cover Album · 1986 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
1/5 ·
bonnek
Seven stars? Hardly one!

I didn’t think it would be possible for Sabbath to create an album worse then Technical Ecstasy, but this album is proof of the contrary.

Originally intended as a solo album, Iommi isn’t in too bad a shape though, his riffs and soloing on the opener In For The Kill isn’t all that bad, but Hughes commercial FM-rock melodies turn the track into a horrible experience. The commercial blues/soul of No Stranger to Love tells the same story. Cheap, very cheap. Turn To Stone is not only tacky, it’s also a shameless rip-off of fast Rainbow songs like Spotlight Kid, other songs like Seventh Star try to get the cheese from Led Zeppelin. No, there’s really nothing here you would want to hear.

Quite surprisingly, Iommi and Hughes' 2005 corporation Fused worked out really well. So the reason for this rating is not that I am a Glenn Hughes-basher, it's the awful song writing and execution. The next album would continue some of the AOR tendencies that pop up here but they got executed much better.
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