Technical Ecstasy
Labels
- Vertigo Records
- Warner Bros. ( U.S. and Canada)
Occupation
- Vocals: Ozzy Osbourne
- E -Bass: Geezer Butler
- Electric Guitar: Tony Iommi
- Drums and lead vocals on It's Alright: Bill Ward
Technical Ecstasy is the seventh studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It was released in September 1976.
Formation
The album was recorded in June 1976 in the Criteria Studios in Miami. Here, the band verrannte in detail work, also the hardships of recent years had already driven a wedge between the musicians.
" In the studio, everything was out of control, we fumbled around for far too long on unimportant details and trying to introduce a perfect sound, rather than focus on riffs and melodies. People do not mind when the guitarist makes little mistakes, they want to hear a human and not a machine. Depressed me all excessive. Eventually it came to me just a matter of to pocket the advance from the record company and somehow finish the album. "
Among other things, understood Osbourne with Tony Iommi any longer, even with Geezer Butler was his relationship changeable. In the subsequent European tour were Black Sabbath by an emerging band called AC / DC, which served as support the process of regularly exceeded. A bar fight between Butler and Malcolm Young was the reason to remove the AC / DC of the tour. In addition Osbourne rose in the late summer of 1977 from short-term, as his father was dying. Dave Walker ( Savoy Brown, Fleetwood Mac) was briefly member of the band until the end of January 1978 Osbourne returned, what the band was happy, because Walker did not agree with the chemistry.
The unusual for Black Sabbath album cover was designed by Hipgnosis team.
Reception
Greg Prato of Allmusic wrote, the band departed with Technical Ecstasy " on and on " from their original musical path. He missed two out of five stars.
The album reached gold status in the U.S. on 19 June 1997.
Title list
All titles have been written by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.