![]() Still, it’s an odd mark on Sabbath’s discography. The touring cycle was uniformly hilarious (Glenn Hughes was kicked out after only a few shows), everybody made a little money and it set the band up for The Eternal Idol. The record company and band manager Don Arden balked at the absence of Sabbath branding and convinced Tony to release Seventh Star under the moniker Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi (and in later pressings just Black Sabbath), hoping the name recognition would bolster sales. The result was a fairly tepid, pop-oriented rock affair that Tony intended to be his first solo record. He recruited Deep Purple’s Glenn Hughes to sing, and rounded out the lineup with relative unknowns, including keyboardist Geoff Nicholls, who would become a longstanding fixture on future Sabbath albums. Tony Iommi, the man with the metal fingertip who single-handedly created the doom genre, wanted to try his hand at a traditional hard rock record. It’s not that Seventh Star is a bad record, it’s that Seventh Star is decidedly not a Black Sabbath record.Īfter the disastrous Born Again touring cycle, Black Sabbath went their separate ways. Ice-T is being Ice-T and regardless of how bad Forbidden is, being given free reign over a Sabbath record and deciding to just to take one short verse is a pimp move if there ever was one. Tony Martin is doing his best but he’s constantly looking over his shoulder because the record company wants Ice-T to have creative license over the vocals on the finished product. Producer Ernie-C is trying to make a Nirvana album. Tony Iommi is trying to get out of his contract so that he can do shows with Ozzy. Tony Iommi is such an incredible player that a moment like “Guilty as Hell” almost conjures the illusion of inspiration, but even a cursory listen to everything else will quickly show you that it’s a fluke. Ice-T? The more I think about Forbidden, the more I just get sad. This is the sound of a genius songwriter trying to get out of a contract, a rap-rock producer going so far out of his element that he falls off the edge of the world, a vocal powerhouse whose love and talent aren’t even close to enough to rescue the sinking ship, and, inexplicably.
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