Double album on black vinyls with comic book by ToddMcFarlane

ll never die, because I’m immortal, sings Ozzy Osbourne on thesecond track of his 13th solo album. It’s not the last time PatientNumber 9 mentions cheating death: I’m coming out of my grave …you’re going to see my face, he sings on No Escape From Now, whileOne Of Those Days has him killing myself – but I never die. You canunderstand why Osbourne might be preoccupied with cheating death orrising from the grave in 2022. It’s not just that he has beenplagued by health problems in recent years – Parkinson’s diseaseand surgeries after a fall at home and to combat nerve pain amongthem – it’s that every project Osbourne has involved himself inrecently has had an air of finality about it. A farewell tour, areunion album with Black Sabbath motivated by concluding his careerwith the band in the right way, a subsequent Sabbath tour calledThe End: even Osbourne’s last solo album, 2020’s Ordinary Man, wasreviewed as if it was his last. But here he is, two years on and hebrings in an all-star supporting cast: Tony Iommi, Jeff Beck,Osbourne’s longstanding guitarist Zakk Wylde, Josh Homme, PearlJam’s Mike McCready, and the late Taylor Hawkins as well as gettingEric Clapton to play on One Of Those Days in a wah-pedal heavystyle that’s, thrillingly, closer to his work with Cream than hissolo oeuvre. The sound of the album manages to be current – there’sa daringly glaring use of Auto-Tune here and there – while flickingskilfully between Sabbath-esque sludge, the glossier pop-metal ofOsbourne’s 80s albums Bark at the Moon and The Ultimate Sin and theodd intriguing detour, most notably the string-laden A ThousandShades, which delves into Osbourne’s lifelong Beatles fandom. It’sbetter to burn in hell than fade away, he sings, a perfectlyOzzy-esque retooling of the old Neil Young lyric that ended up partof Kurt Cobain’s suicide note. It’s tempting to say it sounds likean elegiac farewell, and that the album it concludes would be afine way to say goodbye. But then again, we’ve been there beforewith Osbourne, several times.

Track list:
1. Patient Number 9-with Jeff Beck
2. Immortal-with Mike McCready
3. Parasite-with Zakk Wylde
4. No Escape From Now-with Tony Iommi
5. One Of Those Days-with Eric Clapton
6. A Thousand Shades-with Jeff Beck
7. Mr. Darkness-with Zakk Wylde
8. Nothing Feels Right-with Zakk Wylde
9. Evil Shuffle-with Zakk Wylde
10. Degradation Rules-with Tony Iommi
11. Dead And Gone
12. God Only Knows
13. Darkside Blues

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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