| Los Angeles Times |
Sobriety, injury and family headaches have not blunted the Ozzy edge. Aside from a pair of bloated ballads wherein lifelong basket case Osbourne unconvincingly proffers himself as a pillar of strength, "Black Rain" is largely worth the six-year wait for new originals....full text |
| Jam! |
| Looks like the crazy train has finally run out of steam. And it's about time. You'd think that after nearly 40 years in rock, Ozzy Osbourne would have seen it all, done it all, ingested it all and bitten the head off most of it....full text |
| Dotmusic |
| Ozzy Osbourne has, over recent years, become such a figure of fun that he was running a serious risk of obliterating his own formidable legacy. Be it appearing in a reality TV show with the rest of the family, advertising low fat vegetable spread, participating in an horrendous duet with daughter Kelly or seemingly becoming a national court jester for the Queen's Golden Jubilee, the one-time "Prince of fookin' Darkness" was fast becoming one of rock's greatest caricatures instead of characters....full text |
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Sobriety, injury and family headaches have not blunted the Ozzy edge. Aside from a pair of bloated ballads wherein lifelong basket case Osbourne unconvincingly proffers himself as a pillar of strength, "Black Rain" is largely worth the six-year wait for new originals.