Black Sabbath Forbidden CD

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 WORST
After Osbourne-Dio era,Black Sabbath with Tony Martin was only a REAL ILLUSION.
Submitted by ralp666 (Jalapa,Equz,VERACRUZ,MEXICO)
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 BS has come a loooooong way!!!
Awesome album, awesome band and awesome cover art!!!!
Submitted by dragster (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
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 Real Power not Illussion
A Very Good collection of songs showing a raw and new sound of Sabbath. Tony Iommi always Shinning on Guitar, Tony Martín like always doing a fine job, the thundering rhythm section of the late Cozy Powell and Neil Murray sounded stronger than ever and Geoff Nicholls creating a splendid background with his keyboards. Forget commend about the guess rapper Ice- T, the song Illusion of power it’s terrific! If you are a very fan of Sabbath’s Sound and History you won´t be disappointed, here we get a really Overlook and magnify album.
Submitted by ginciartec (Caracas,Ven)
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 The name should have changed...
This is a "Black Sabbath" album to about the same extent that Tony Iommi's various solo albums with Glenn Hughes and others are Sabs albums -- which is to say, not at all, that's record company suit b.s. I'm that sort of moron that judges a piece of music as a piece of music, not so much in the context of a band that was this once or that once or the other once. Whether the band in question is Purple, the Stones, Sabbath or any other rotating membership dinosaur, all versions of each of these bands did great stuff but there can only be one classic era. People don't even give Dio respect in the Sabbath context (and he is about 50 times the singer Ozman is); so Tony Martin has no chance with the critics. This record is of it's time -- industrial garage core production values, Ice T and friends guesting/producing, etc. But if you look past that and actually listen, the melodic power of Martin shines through, the great guitar work of Iommi is there, and you can't ask for much more in a rhythm section than Neal and Cozy. Is this a "Black Sabbath" record? Hell no. It gets zero stars on that basis. But as a mid 90s metal/grind/rap experiment? This is better than anything those Limp Biskit guys ever did. Get real! For $6 give the thing a chance. The 20 minutes you'll spend figuring out who's in the cartoon is almost that by itself and there are at least two or three genuinely great songs here, with only a couple stinkers. Tony Martin and Tony Iommi made two great SABBATH albums (Headless Cross and Cross Purposes; I don't count Eternal because the Gillen version is better) but this is a fun listen.
Submitted by Andrew (Connecticut)
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 what a waste of time,what a weak effort of sabbath's menbers
this is probably the worst sabbath album. the production is very very poor and the lyrics really suck! theres no great truck at all,and i know after listenin to it why the menbers separated after this one skip it and try eternal idol or cross purposes
Submitted by RockandMetallica2000 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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