BLACK SABBATH - SABOTAGE

SUPERTZARS.

We are six albums deep into Sabbath's discography and there seems to be nothing stopping them, besides perhaps their drug addiction that were getting out of hand at this point. Sabotage as an album is a bit all over the place, certain songs are absolute masterpieces while others have a very strong 70's prog rock vibe to them. I'm not the biggest fan of that but overall this is just one helluva record. But let's not forget that Sabbath has always experimented and have put some weird acoustic arrangements on more or less all of their albums like FX or Fluff on previous records and this time the song is called Don't Start (Too Late).

Sabbath don't make perfect albums but they come really close every goddamn time. They perhaps add some weird instrumentation or ballad that kinda takes down the my impression of each record a notch and adds imperfections to Sabbath's near perfect sound. But maybe we need that on each album to fully appreciate the masterpieces like Hole in the Sky, Symptom of the Universe or Megalomania. The three best songs on the album by the way.

Ozzy does a great performance, maybe even his best performance of all time on this rather experimental record. I also think at this is the most metal sounding Sabbath album of the 70's, it's progressive but it's also very loud and powerful. For me this was the last more or less perfect album of the early Ozzy era. Sabbath has done it again, they've created six 5 out of 5 axes albums in a row. Insane!

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