In for the POLL - Black Sabbath (featuring Tony Iommi)'s Seventh Star (1986)

Heard a couple of tracks from this album but I'll have to hear it all sometime this week.

I really like parts of Born Again, but not so much the Tony Martin ones I've heard (Headless Cross and Tyr). I'm guessing this album isn't really like either.

One of the things I love about Sabbath is how even *within* each "vocalist era", each album came out pretty unique! This one is definitely its own gnarly oddball.

I know ppl like this album & Popoff rates it rather well but I just do not like this album at all. it just has a very cursed vibe (derogatory).

If it was released as an Iommi solo album maybe it’d go over better but even sans Geezer, doing it under the banner of Sabbath brings an expectation for me that is not met. (I guess that kinda applies to most of the Sabbath releases henceforth)

Anyway

I listened to it last week when this poll popped up and I just really don't like Glenn Hughes. The songs are generic 80s AOR metal, and I just really don't like Glenn Hughes. Yes, I said it twice on purpose.

I just do not like this album at all.

agree, it is terrible.

I have the box set from this era & I find it fascinating, and it's fun car listening, but individual tracks past headless cross are pretty unmemorable. still the notion of strongly defending this era has a romance to it, for me

I wouldn't claim that Glenn Hughes particularly improves on anything, but he's good fodder for Iommi's gloom clouds. Even when the lyrics are typical sad-sack "love is hard and I'm kinda lonely" sentiments, Iommi injects them with apocalypse, which goes well with Hughes' earnestness. The call of the seventh star permeates it all! and I end up getting all like, "Well he's right, you know, when love goes, it WILL tear you apart!!"

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Alright, I think it's official: ILM does not follow Sabbath this deep into the mid-'80s.

I'm going to listen to this today as penance.

"Stranger to Love" is pretty great, reminds me of "Stone Cold" era AOR Rainbow