In for the POLL - Black Sabbath (featuring Tony Iommi)'s Seventh Star (1986)

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Iommi guitar turns my bones into electric guitars.

(I meant to type "into fireworks", mistyped, but this way is better, yes?)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Sphinx (The Guardian)	1
Seventh Star	1
Angry Heart	1
In for the Kill	0
No Stranger to Love	0
Turn to Stone	0
Danger Zone	0
Heart Like a Wheel	0
In Memory...	0

― TheNuNuNu, Saturday, 9 May 2026 08:27 (one week ago)

Heard a couple of tracks from this album but I'll have to hear it all sometime this week.

I really like parts of Born Again, but not so much the Tony Martin ones I've heard (Headless Cross and Tyr). I'm guessing this album isn't really like either.

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 9 May 2026 21:04 (one week ago)

One of the things I love about Sabbath is how even *within* each "vocalist era", each album came out pretty unique! This one is definitely its own gnarly oddball.

― TheNuNuNu, Saturday, 16 May 2026 17:04 (three days ago)

I know ppl like this album & Popoff rates it rather well but I just do not like this album at all. it just has a very cursed vibe (derogatory).

If it was released as an Iommi solo album maybe it’d go over better but even sans Geezer, doing it under the banner of Sabbath brings an expectation for me that is not met. (I guess that kinda applies to most of the Sabbath releases henceforth)

Anyway

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 May 2026 19:19 (three days ago)

I listened to it last week when this poll popped up and I just really don't like Glenn Hughes. The songs are generic 80s AOR metal, and I just really don't like Glenn Hughes. Yes, I said it twice on purpose.

― wipes chooser (unperson), Saturday, 16 May 2026 20:20 (three days ago)

I just do not like this album at all.

agree, it is terrible.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 16 May 2026 20:56 (three days ago)

I have the box set from this era & I find it fascinating, and it's fun car listening, but individual tracks past headless cross are pretty unmemorable. still the notion of strongly defending this era has a romance to it, for me

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 16 May 2026 22:40 (three days ago)

I wouldn't claim that Glenn Hughes particularly improves on anything, but he's good fodder for Iommi's gloom clouds. Even when the lyrics are typical sad-sack "love is hard and I'm kinda lonely" sentiments, Iommi injects them with apocalypse, which goes well with Hughes' earnestness. The call of the seventh star permeates it all! and I end up getting all like, "Well he's right, you know, when love goes, it WILL tear you apart!!"

― TheNuNuNu, Sunday, 17 May 2026 00:36 (two days ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 18 May 2026 00:01 (yesterday)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 19 May 2026 00:01 (nineteen hours ago)

Alright, I think it's official: ILM does not follow Sabbath this deep into the mid-'80s.

― TheNuNuNu, Tuesday, 19 May 2026 06:07 (twelve hours ago)

I'm going to listen to this today as penance.

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 May 2026 15:04 (three hours ago)

"Stranger to Love" is pretty great, reminds me of "Stone Cold" era AOR Rainbow

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 May 2026 16:10 (two hours ago)

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