>>127268542
>Holy shit
Yes, it's pretty embarrassing. It was an attempt to recapture the magic of Heaven and Hell, but it came out in 1992 and was disastrously out of step with the musical tastes of the era, both metal and grunge. Metallica's black album and Nirvana's Nevermind were both far heavier and felt far more authentic than this sad, tired 80's retread. Even pic related completely destroyed it commercially.

>"It was good to try that with Ronnie," Iommi reflected in 1997. "[But] we lost millions on it... because of the time we took to record it, and fly backwards and forwards to the States with everything, all the gear; bringing it back; recording here [the UK]... A lot of messing about and a lot of money wasted... If it came to it again now, we could plan it different and it'd be okay, but we had to try that."[23]