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Black Sabbath put aside their trademark doom laden heavy metal sound with the release of Technical Ecstasy. To the disappointment of their fans they started to experiment with alterative musical styles. (US:51 UK:13)
“While the band are to be admired for experimenting and trying hard to branch out of heavy metal, this album is a sudden and significant decline in quality. Even the best tracks feel more like enjoyable curiosities than fully-formed songs.”
“What happened here? Half of these songs don't sounds like Sabbath at all. It seemed like they had run out of steam and started pinching ideas from other bands. There are some decent tracks but I don't get the overall direction.”
“Every band is entitled to an album where they go outside of their comfort zone, play outside of the box, experiment with their sound, and generally mess with the minds of their diehard fans to the point where they question what was going on when the album was written and recorded. Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy is a greatly diversified effort compared with what preceded it, and as a result takes a great deal of effort to get used to.”
“This is commonly cited as the moment when Sabbath precipitously declined as a band during and it isn't hard to see why. The chemistry that had been such a key part of the previous six records started to disintegrated at this point.”
“Technical Ecstasy is not a bad album, and has a lot of brilliant moments, but overall it feels like the band are confused and going through an identity crisis. There are a few metallic moments, but it seems they are more interested in experimenting with keyboards and pop song structures than unleashing heavy riffs. Without the doomy riffs as the glue holding it together, the album is a nice and interesting listen but doesn't have much personality.”
“All of the characteristics that made Sabbath so popular in the seventies, had been replaced by something more mainstream and polished. Well played perhaps, but simply not that entertaining.”
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