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"Sabbath" couldn' t go lower than their previous and infect "Headless Cross". At least, I hope so.

When "Anno Mundi" starts, you know instantly where "Dream Theater" got the inspiration for most of their riffs. From the master. Mr. Iommi.

It seems that the band (almost) turned their back to the poor AOR-ish style and were fully heading the metal sound. Much better. Tony Iommi has almost risen from the dead. Just listen to his great performance during "The Law Maker". But in terms of poor AOR, there are still some residues : "Jerusalem" is very, very weak.

"Tyr" is a condensed version of "Sabbath" music. A bit of AOR, a bit of metal, a little of hard-rock and some bits of heavy stuff like in the good old days with "The Sabbath Stones" which is my fave and combines heavy with acoustic passages like on their debut album and the song "Black Sabbath".

Some very short intrumental as usual with "The Battle Of Tyr" : a strange and very short "philarmonic" song. Almost making one and only track with "Odin's Court". Another short acoustic song. Flavourless and dull. The worst being achieved with the awful "Valhalla". Some rock ballad of course with the unevitable great guitar solo ("Feels Good To Me").

Another of my (two) fave is the closing number "Heaven In Black". A fully hard-rock song starting on a drum solo completely borrowed to "Pictures Of Home" (Machine Head). Great rhythm, veery powerful number.

This album is not as bad as its predecessor. But it is far to be a good album. Two stars.

Anno Mundi rules!

[Background vocals: Spiritu Sanctus Anno Anno Mundi]

Can you see me, are you near me? Can you hear me crying out for life? Can you tell me, where's the glory? Ride the days and sail the nights When it's over you'll find the answer Running in the whispering rain Anno Mundi? Can you wonder! Truth or thunder, life or blame

Another album with Tony Martin on vocals and Cozy Powell on drums! Well, because I had been familiar with Tony Martin's vocal quality and the music of Black Sabbath, I finally realized that this album is an excellent match between the two. You may call that this album is not like early Black Sabbath, but I really like this album. The opening track "Anno Mundi (The Vision)" is really a masterpiece of hard rock music. It does have great melody, powerful riffs by Iommi and inspiring lyrics. Play this opening track outloud in the morning when you wake up, it will blow you away for sure. Well, at least you will notice how great and powerful the guitar riffs using power chords produced by Iommi and augmented by Neil Murray's bass guitar. Awesome!

With Geoff Nichols back on keyboards, this lineup made Tyr (August 1990), which charted in the Top 40 in the U.K. but became Black Sabbath's first regular album to miss the U.S. charts. As compared to "Headless Cross" this album is much matured musically. And I think mainly was due to better chemistry between Tony Martin and the Black Sabbath's music. The following tracks are excellent as well: "The Law Maker" (3:47), "Jerusalem" (3:53). Especially with fourth track "The Sabbath Stones" (6:35) the band has put its solid foothold in the new style of music post Ozzy Osbourne. This track reminds me to "Nightwing" of "Headless Cross" album where the acoustic guitar work is used excellently.

Overall, this is a solid album by Black Sabbath. Highly recommended. Keep on rockin' ..!

Peace on earth and mercy mild - GW

I bought this album from a discount campaing shelf, but I sold it later forward as I really didin't like the boasting macho style of the music. The only short decent musical moments for me here were the intro "The Battle of Tyr" which sounded little like a movie soundtrack, leading to "Odin's Court", a short acoustic piece preceeding (in my opinnion) disqusting "Valhalla", a straightforward headbanger in vein of the poorest Rainbow songs. The other tunes did not exceed this quality descrption from my perspective. If this musical style is your cup of tea, I'm not sure if there is not technically anything wrong with the record. The album covers were pretty enough to fool me buy it, but had to put it to the loop available for being discovered from the flea market boxes by a new owner appreciating it more.

Another Sabbath Stone

Here we have the third consecutive record featuring the great Tony Martin on vocals and the second to feature drum god Cozy Powell and it is indeed another excellent Black Sabbath album, not quite as good as Headless Cross, but definitely a nice part of the Martin-era. We have here also Neil Murray on bass, Geoff Nicholls on keyboards and, of course, Mr. Black Sabbath himself Tony Iommi. This makes up what I consider to be the definitive post-Ozzy line up of the band! It is sad that this version of Black Sabbath is not better remembered. They ought to be!

TYR is the first and only explicitly conceptual album by Black Sabbath and is also the most progressive album by the band since Sabotage from 1975. The progressive tendencies in Black Sabbath's music had been there all along, but in the early 80's they were almost extinct. The progressive side of the band again began to swell from Seventh Star onwards and it culminated with this album. The concept is inspired by Scandinavian mythology and I initially had serious worries about this before I listened to the album. I was scarred that it would turn out to be a Spinal Tap kind of thing, embarrassing the history of the band that I loved. Fortunately, the concept doesn't take over the music. TYR is only loosely based around its concept. Personally I think that the concept enhances the music without controlling it. The music controls the concept and not the other way around which is a common mistake with concept albums.

There are many great riffs on this album with Anno Mundi (The Vision), Jerusalem and The Lawmaker being as good as, or better than, anything from the Headless Cross album. The style here is similar to those of The Eternal Idol and Headless Cross albums, but here it works even better. The Sabbath Stones has a symphonic sound with quieter passages with acoustic guitar alternating with some heavy passages. Excellent music!

Three of the album's tracks are connected to form a kind of suite starting with the short, strongly symphonic instrumental The Battle Of Tyr, this then leading into the haunting ballad Odin's Court, which in turn leads into the rousing Valhalla. I wouldn't call this a Prog epic, but it is very effective. Feels Good To Me is a typical AOR power ballad that doesn't really fit into the theme of the album. However, it does not distract too much and it's not horrible at all. Indeed, it lends a bit of diversity to the album and represents a type of song that was very rarely made by the band.

If you want to discover post-Ozzy Black Sabbath, the much underrated Tony Martin-era is an excellent place to start. And in terms of Prog, TYR is the richest of these albums. Sadly this album would be the end of this interesting period of the band's history. The next album would again feature Ronnie James Dio and a much more contemporary and 'trashy' sound in a very misguided attempt to achieve greater commercial success again.

Highly recommended for any fan of the heavier side of Prog Related music!

Last Black Sabbath album with Tony Marin named Tyr from 1990, 'till his return to sing on Cross purposes from 1994 and Forbidden from 1995. While this album is not bad at all, really, some great moments like Anno Mundi, Jerusalem, the excellent The Sabbath Stones shows that Black Sabbath is still alive and doing well, because the competitions in the '80's and early '90's worth mentioning, bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Scorpions, overshadow bands reputation, who for some reason never gain that big aplauses from Ozzy era or Dio. Neverthe less some good to great albums were release by the band in the'80's like The iternal idol and Headless cross, two great works with a lot to offer for Sabbath fans and not only. Now this album brings nothing new in bands career, nighter the sound or manner of intepration, still the same, but not bad, really. A pleasent alvum, well not better than headless cross for sure and not better than Cross purposess but still enjoyble most of the time. Iommy use to change the line -up on every record released, on this one he kkep the members like on previous album, and to tell the truth , a strong and damn good musicians. All in all a 3 star album for me, good one no doubt, but not really special, I prefer with Tony Martin albums like Headless cross or Cross purpossess. After this one Martin leaves the band or better said he takes a vacantion, replaced by anothe monster vocalist Dio, he will return in fall of 1993 to record another great one with this legendary band Cross purposess.

Tyr is the fifteenth full-length studio album by British heavy metal act Black Sabbath. The album was recorded between january 1990 and June 1990 at Rockfield and Woodcray Studios and saw a release through the I.R.S. label on the 20th of August 1990 in the UK and on the 31of August in the US. It´s now the third album in a row with vocalist Tony Martin fronting the band.

The musical style is pretty much the same as on the previous two albums The Eternal Idol (1987) and Headless Cross (1989). Heavy metal with an epic edge. The music is heavy but the keyboard backing by Geoff Nicholls means that the music has a softer edge at times. As always ( well almost always) the compositional level is high and the musicianship is excellent. Tony Martin is an outstanding vocalist and Tony Iommi´s heavy riffs define Black Sabbath´s sound. This isn´t the most revolutionizing music in the world but it´s certainly enjoyable.

The production is the best production on the three late eighties Tony Martin led Black Sabbath albums IMO.

Tyr is a good Black Sabbath album and I must admit that I´m a bit of a Tony Martin fan. Tyr is not my favorite album by the band ( I´ll always prefer the Ozzy and the Dio led albums) but it´s a sure 3 star rating in my book.

Tyr is possibly the best album Sabbath made with Tony Martin. It's not really my kind of music but when it comes to power metal this is the real thing. Just like the Dio-fronted Sabbath albums, this is a mix of vintage Rainbow with Sabbath heaviness. It's heavier then Rainbow Rising but it's more slick, melodic and commercial then Heaven and Hell.

Most songs are really good. Again, not as good as Rainbow Rising or Heaven and Hell but quite a treat if you're a fan of this style I guess. For me, there are still too many traces of AOR left, as can be heard in the nasty break 2.15 minutes into Jerusalem. Other songs like Anno Mundi and The Sabbath Stones are true heavy metal monoliths.

The production is professional but very polished and gated (= 80's reverbed drums alert!). It makes the epic music a bit too bombastic for me and knocks off a star. With a more organic and rougher edge this could be 4 stars. Recommended for power and sympho metallers.