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Okay lets get serious here! The album really should have been entitled " Time Machine " and the cover would have had the band members wearing their best platform boots with the lightning bolts on them gathered around a artists rendering of a time machine.
It's all here in glorious shades of ominous black! Ozzy doesn't really need a good vocal range because his style of singing is a perfect blend with the music that's been made here. You hear traces of past melodic acoustic guitars and bongos thumping away in the back ground. There are so many power riffs and heavy bass notes on this album it would take a year to list them all. In the long run this is a trip from start to finish that requires some patience from the listener to digest all of this music. Two songs that are over eight minutes long and three that are over seven which does require some listening skill that might be lost on the youth of today. Those days of sitting around the living room with the lights turned out and watching a trio of candles burn down while listening to Black Sabbath may be long gone. For those who use too practice this ancient art of album listening 13 might just make you want to turn the lights out again.......