Tracklist: The shining Ancient warrior Hard life to love Glory ride Born to lose Nightmare Scarlet pimpernel Lost forever Eternal idol

Band members: Tony Martin - Vocals Tony Iommi - Guitars Dave Spitz - Bass guitar Bob Daisley - Bass guitar Geoff Nicholls - Keyboards Bev Bevan - Percussion Eric Singer - Drums

Rating:
During the time between "Born again" and the release of "The eternal idol" strange things took place in Sabbath. First of all, Ian Gillan didn't last long thank God, but around 85-86 Iommi did a solo album featuring Glenn Hughes on vocals (I think anyway) under the label "Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi" but anyway the album was really commercial and crappy that's the biggest reason that I don't have it.
Then, during the recording of this very album they had a totally unknown vocalist named Ray Gillen, but in the end he was fired (or left the band, doesn't matter which for me) and the vocal tracks was replaced by another unknown guy, Tony Martin, who isn't bad in any way IMO, I think he's really underrated. He's got a great clean voice, goes higher sometimes but that's fine with me since I dig some power metal :)
Also concerning this album, I think it's way too underrated this is a really heavy album, in fact one of Sabbath's better ones. Although not as great as the first 3 with Ozzy and those with Dio it's a very strong album which I think every Sabbath fan could enjoy.







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