This is one hell of a way to introduce yourself as a band, goddamn...
As a debut, this is insane. Though... so is Trent Reznor, so it makes sense.
I was pleasantly surprised by this album. I didn't have low expectations per say, but they weren't overly high either. I've liked what I heard from him previously but none of it blew me away particularly. But this album did blow my expectations out of the water for the most part, except for a few songs here and there. Overall, very much enjoyed this album.
Pretty good introduction for someone who was previously not familiar with A$AP Rocky. Quite fun, very enjoyable from beginning to end.
I'm glad I could end the Sabbath discography on a high note, which it desperately needed for about 12 albums ago. They return at least somewhat to their classic sound and with Ozzy, which in my eyes is a requirement for Black Sabbath to be Black Sabbath. Overall, a quite enjoyable final album.
A complete regression from any sort of quality shown on the previous album.
This album was a rather pleasant surprise, considering the previous few Sabbath albums. I'm still not big on it, but comparatively it's really not that bad.
I don't even know what I'm supposed to say at this point. EVERY Black Sabbath album since Born Again sounds the same. It doesn't sound like what I think of when I hear the name Black Sabbath. There's literally nothing else I can say about this, that I haven't said about any of the previous few albums.
At this point everything since Born Again sounds the exact same to me. There is no innovation in any of these albums whatsoever.
Definitely their best album since Heaven & Hell, though in my case that still doesn't mean much.
There is very little I like about this album. I don't like the majority of the music on here. As I also said in my Heaven & Hell review, Sabbath doesn't work for me without Ozzy, and that I've never been big on Ronnie James Dio to begin with and of course those points translate to this album too.
Sabbath just doesn't work for me without Ozzy's voice. I've also never been big on Ronnie James Dio to begin with.
There are very few albums I can think of where I was more bored. This album's 45 minutes felt like 75 minutes to me. Comparatively to basically everything they did before this, Never Say Die is also incredibly generic. In my opinion this album is the definition of mediocre.