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Headless Cross

Headless Cross

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Mindless Cross

Rating: 1/5

This album is cliched MOR 80s hard rock, with some of the most ridiculously unconvincing "dark" lyrics.

And under the Sabbath name, that is really unforgivable.

Tony Martin was on a couple albums that were decent in their own right- The Eternal Idol, and Cross Purposes namely.

This one though, and Forbidden, really stink up the place.

Don't laugh in the face of death - or your tongue will blister!

Rating: 4/5

I picked this album up around the time that I got TYR and at first I wasn't fond the album. It had two tracks I liked... Headless Cross and Devil and Daughter. I listened to it on occasion but recently found myself listening to the entire album and loving every track years later. Top to bottom this album is great.

And nowadays the lyrics to some songs might seem "corny" or "over the top" but this is an Occult style album which is much different that some of the other previous Sabbath releases. A much more darker, version of Sabbath. Which is why I love the Martin era of Sabbath so much. To me, at some point Sabbath got away from being what the name represented and what the music was supposed to be about.

This album along with various tracks from TYR to me saw Sabbath going back to "the basics" so to speak. Going back to the lyrics, I can see how people would think the "satan" references would be silly, but compare it to the rest of the music that was out at the time. They pretty much started a movement for the music we hear of this type now. This was revolutionary stuff and while Rock and Roll was always considered "evil" by purists and such, and while people always looked for Occult messages in music, Sabbath laid the cards out on the table and effectively said "here's your evil Occult music! Swallow this bitter pill!"

you might be able to talk yourself into liking this ......

Rating: 1/5

My friends and I often mock this album - it tries so hard to be evil that it makes Ronnie James Dio look like Doctor Seuss. I saw them on this tour (hey it's still Black Sabbath) and they put on a good show, but as I pumped my fist in unison with 800 or so others I realized that if you suspend your belief and buy into it (kinda like a bad magic show or Santa Claus) it can be fun. So, have a few cold ones and this might be enjoyable --- In truth really just a bad album, especially when you have a history of being innovative.

SIN OZZY, SIN DIO Y SIN BUTLER, PERO UNO DE LOS MEJORES

Rating: 5/5

Sinceramente y sin rodeos creo que este es un álbum que ha sido ninguneado por muchos pero para mi está en el Top 5 de Black Sabbath: 1)Master of Reality; 2)Heaven And Hell; 3)Vol.4; 4)Headless Cross; 5)Paranoid.
Tal vez parezca aventurado pero para mi el colocarlo 4 en el Top 5 de Black Sabbath es comparable al ¿por qué Hugo Sánchez no está considerado dentro de los 5 mejores jugadores de fútbol soccer de todos los tiempos junto con Maradona y Pelé? porque sencillamente es mexicano y no argentino, brasileño o alemán; así mismo ¿porque Headless Cross de Tony Martin, Lawrence Cottle y Cozy Powel no está considerado dentro de los 5 mejores LPs de Black Sabbath junto con Master of Reality y Heaven And Hell? tan sencillo como que el vocalista no es Ozzy ni Dio ni en el bajo está Geezer.
Como se ha comentado, musicalmente es de lo mejor que el Sabbath lanzó y para mi los riffs de Paranoid, Children of the Grave, Heaven and Hell, Neon Knights y Devil And Daughter son los mejores no solo en el repertorio de Black Sabbath sino en la historia del rock (y perdón a los fans de Metallica, Guns And Roses y otros).
Desde el comienzo con The Gates of Hell se puede respirar la calidad de todo el disco y por supuesto que no defrauda, al seguir con Headless Cross se reafirma y con la obra maestra de Devil And Daughter es inevitable caer a los pies de este disco, lo anterior sin mencionar la excelsa colaboración de Brian May en When Death Calls y las excelentes pausas y efectos en Kill in The Spirit World y Nightwing.
Líricamente es también muy bueno y no le pide nada a los de las eras de Ozzy y Dio, solo que nuevamente es minimizado porque aquí las letras son en su mayoría de Tony Martin y no de Dio/Iommi/Butler o de Ousborne/Iommi/Butler/Ward.
En conclusión: Headless Cross es el mejor álbum de Black Sabbath en la era de Tony Martin y en cuarto mejor de todas las eras, llámese Ozzy, Dio o Gillan.
Que viva Black Sabbath y que viva el Rock!!!!!!!!!!!

Metal Magic

Rating: 5/5

This is getting almost impossible to find. The BEST Black Sabbath recording EVER! Buy 2 so when you wear the first one out you will still have a primo one left. This IS for serious metal fans and headbangers.