Seventh Star  by Black Sabbath

In early 1986, the twelfth album of Black Sabbath was released, in January in Great Britain and in February in the U.S.A. Seventh Star, which was primarily a creation of Tony Iommi, was intended to become the debut of the Black Sabbath guitarist, but due to pressure from the record company Warner Records Inc., the album was released as a Black Sabbath album. This is also the reason why only Tony Iommi (!) is on the cover.

The musical style of the album is somewhere between hard rock and heavy metal, with moments when things become even softer, such as the single No Stranger To Love, which was released only in Europe. The harsh reality is that apart from Iommi, there was no one else who took part in the recording and creation of Seventh Star who had any connection with the band of the 1970s or the very early 1980s. Even bassist Geezer Butler had left. On vocals, we hear Glenn Hughes, while American Eric Singer has taken on the drums. The production of the album belongs to Jeff Glixman.

Seventh Star was the first album of Black Sabbath that failed to enter the Top-20 in Great Britain since the first album of the band from Birmingham, and the No. 78 on the Billboard was the lowest position that the band of Iommi had reached in the United States up to that point.