while many hard-core black sabbath fans consider 1975's sabotage to be the band's most underrated album, it can also be pointed to as the beginning of the end for the original osbourne-iommi-butler-ward line-up. osbourne was starting to feel disillusioned with the group, and the seeds for his highly successful solo career in the '80s were being planted. that said, 'sabotage' was the last sabbath album to truly contain all of the components that made the quartet one the most popular heavy metal bands of all-time, before it pursued less focused musical detours.
while many hard-core black sabbath fans consider 1975's sabotage to be the band's most underrated album, it can also be pointed to as the beginning of the end for the original osbourne-iommi-butler-ward line-up. osbourne was starting to feel disillusioned with the group, and the seeds for his highly successful solo career in the '80s were being planted. that said, 'sabotage' was the last sabbath album to truly contain all of the components that made the quartet one the most popular heavy metal bands of all-time, before it pursued less focused musical detours.