Tracks Side 1:

1. Guilty As Hell (3:27)

Forbidden is the eighteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in June 1995. This recording saw the reunion of Black Sabbath's Tyr-era line-up from 1990, with the return of Neil Murray and Cozy Powell. It was the last album to feature Tony Martin on vocals and the last by the band until 2013 when Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler returned for the album 13. The album sold over 21,000 copies in the U.S in its first week and as of 2013, Forbidden has sold over 191,000 copies in the US.

The album's opening track, "The Illusion of Power", features Ice-T of the band Body Count in the bridge, delivering a spoken word part. Body Count band member Ernie C also produced, recorded and mixed the album.

Forbidden was panned by critics upon its release. Allmusic's Bradley Torreano gave the album only one and a half stars, and said "with boring songs, awful production, and uninspired performances, this is easily avoidable for all but the most enthusiastic fan", while Blender magazine called Forbidden "an embarrassment ... the band's worst album"
Band members have since spoken about their mixed opinions of the album. Vocalist Tony Martin made known his feelings in an interview in July 2011, during which he stated: "Well, Forbidden is... I want to say 'crap', but it's actually not", and said that the songs worked in rehearsals, but other factors, such as rumours of a reunion of the original Black Sabbath line-up and the record company wanting to "take [the album] and see what Ice-T wanted to do" gave the album a "distinct ill feeling". Martin also maintains that he never believed a "Run-D.M.C. type"/"Rap Sabbath" album would work.
In regards to the subsequent original line-up reunion, Martin has also said Forbidden was a "filler album that got the band out of the label deal, rid of the singer, and into the reunion", but remarked that he "wasn’t privy to that information at the time".
Guitarist Tony Iommi has also admitted to Sabbath fanzine Southern Cross that he was "not happy" with Forbidden, and elaborated by saying "We brought in Ernie C to do production, which was a bit difficult really, because I had to leave him to it… One of the problems was we weren't all there at the same time, when we were writing it. Cozy and Neil were still contracted to do other stuff, so it ended up with just Tony Martin, Geoff Nicholls and myself just jamming around and putting ideas down. It all came together very quickly and we didn't have time to reflect: make sure it was the right songs and the right way of doing it."[ (en.wikipedia.org)

 

Tony Iommi - Guitar
Tony Martin - Vocals
Neil Murray - Bass
Cozy Powell - Drums
Geoff Nicholls - Keyboards

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