This album began my long-lasting appreciation of the works of Ozzy Osbourne, most of them anyway. Before I ever bought any Black Sabbath album with Ozzy as singer, I bought this album. That's what happens when you are naive and growing up listening to metal in the '90's. Sometimes you come late to the game. I remember being surprised when I found out Ozzy sang for Black Sabbath at one time. I bought this album alongside Black Sabbath's Cross Purposes album, Queensryche's Empire, and one other album that will remain nameless because of its ability to impeach my perfect 100% metal persona.This is a very good Ozzy album, but it was one of the last consistently good Ozzy albums as well. After this, Ozzy began devoting half of each album to ballads. There were a few on this one as well, but for the most part this was solid heavy metal. The production was a little on the weaker side, Ozzy's voice took the biggest hit. But that was okay, metal production at the time was notoriuosly weak.
The songs were very memorable and had a strange unsettling atmosphere. It was at this time, that Ozzy was starting to become well known as "The Prince of Darkness". All in all, this was a good Ozzy Osbourne album, certainly not his best, but definitely not his worst either.
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