Eternal Idol - Deluxe Edition (1987)

"After years of playing a dispiriting game of musical chairs with various lead singers during the early '80s, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi finally stumbled upon a dependable frontman when he admitted relative unknown Tony Martin into the fold. Martin stept in for an unreliable Ray Gillen when the latter moved on to Jake E. Lee's Badlands, and helping Iommi rescue an astonishingly solid long-player. As it turned out, Martin's powerful, muscular voice -- bearing resemblance to Ronnie James Dio's -- was ultimately the perfect foil for these full-bodied heavy metal anthems, which were built upon some of Iommi's heaviest, most undeniable riffs of the decade. Geoff Nicholls adds impeccable supporting keyboards throughout -- most notably to "Ancient Warrior" and the fantastically gloomy title track. And it contains a bona fide heavy metal classic in its monumental opener, "The Shining". This is quite possibly Sabbath's most underrated opus." (E. Rivadavia, Allmusic) CD2 bevat de (prima) sessies met Ray Gillen.

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