Never Say Die
| Black Sabbath
Never Say Die
Never Say Die! is the eighth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in September 1978. It was the last studio album with the band's original lineup and also the last studio album to feature original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne until the 2013 album 13. It was certified Gold in the U.S on 7 November 1997 and as of November 2011 sold 133,000 copies in the United States since the SoundScan era. The album received mixed reviews, with critics calling it "unbalanced" and insisting its energy was scattered in too many directions.-"Wikipedia"
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Metal Archives
Mediocre, often times lazy and unfocused.
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All Music
If only it had represented a bold new direction (albeit one that die-hard fans would never have accepted) rather than just another sign of the band's quickly fraying sense of identity, Black Sabbath's original lineup may have found a way to save itself -- but Never Say Die!'s incoherent musical aggregate in fact betrayed the harsh reality that it was indeed too late.
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Magnet Magazine
Never Say Die! didn’t just coast along the group’s past; the band pushed its signature sound further out. It’s a severely underrated work by a band that still had plenty of ideas and experiments in the tank.
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Metal Forces Magazine
Never Say Die!, for all of its faults, is an incredibly underrated record that has a real basement quality to it. There’s something particularly raw in Iommi’s guitar sound, while Geezer Butler’s tumbling bass and Ward’s drums seem sewn together – albeit hastily – with Ozzy’s worn-out yawn… and yet I’m intrigued by it all.
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Sputnik Music
Never Say Die! sounds like it’s being played by a tired, worn out group who have completely lost inspiration, and it is equally tiring to listen to it.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Never Say Die! was clearly the work of an exhausted, crippled musical unit; a unit that appeared to run out of what little head of steam they could muster right around the final power chords of the album’s forceful opening title track.
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Metal Reviews
Never Say Die really has nothing to sell itself to anyone except die-hard Sabbath fans, though I suppose there's always a perverse thrill from watching a once legendary band implode on record.
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