Black Sabbath-Never Say Die (1978)

"Never Say Die" was the last Black Sabbath album with Ozzy Osbourne, an album that was beaten by critics and its closest fans and yet it is an album that deserved much more notoriety.
No one can doubt the career of this historic group at this point, Black Sabbath had built a reputation as the greatest heavy metal band in the world thanks to works such as "Black Sabbath", "Paranoid", (both from 1970 ), "Master of Reality (1971)," Vol 4 " (1972) or" Sabbath Bloody Sabbath "(1973).
However, from the album "Sabotage" (1975), they decided to incorporate the use of keyboards to its lugrube and dark sound and macabre lyrics.
After that album the band would publish "Technical Ecstasy" (1976), who would receive very bad reviews and a mediocre sales, even so two years later, the band will continue on the same path with the edition of this "Never say Die", where the keyboards and synthesizers are still present, even more so than in the previous work.
For this the band had hired former Gary Moore Band member Don Airey, who contributed substantially to the end result of this recording.
Tracks with jazzy touches like "Air Dance", the dynamic "Johnny Blade", the boogie rock "A Hard Road", the great "Junior Eyes" or the R&B "Swinging The Chain", show that "Never Say Die" sounds today on a cooler day than then and how unfairly undervalued it was received at that time.