Unfortunately, however, subpar marketing efforts and widespread distribution issues seriously hampered the album's prospects in America and other key territories. At the headless cross, at the headless cross From the first evil night, when a black flash of light Cut the crucifix half to the ground There's no escaping from the power of Satan For a people so brave and so proud Listen for the feet as they pound the land to a tune of thunder Watch as the legions ride again to a fate of death or torture, At. Those four albums were on IRS Records, and. Iommi’s been remixing Forbidden, so he’s probably gonna have it reissued under his label. I have copies of those albums on CD, though. Headless Cross went on to earn Black Sabbath some of their best critical reviews in years. Headless Cross is the fourteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath.Released on 24 April 1989, it was the group's second album to feature singer Tony Martin, the first to feature drummer Cozy Powell, and the only album with bassist Laurence Cottle. 10 If there were one stamp Laurence put on Headless Cross, it would be his intro to When Death Calls. Yes, its because Sabbath was on IRS Records, which closed down. Capping it all off was a rare detour into acoustic guitars by Sabbath lynchpin Iommi, who blended them with his patented cyclopean power chords for the exquisite album closer "Nightwing." The Gates of Hell Headless Cross Devil & Daughter When Death Calls Cloak & Dagger (Picture disc only) Kill in the Spirit World Call of the Wild Black. It all benefited from excellent keyboard shadings courtesy of longtime Sabbath sideman Geoff Nicholls and inventive bass lines from jazz-trained session ace Laurence Cottle – though he was later replaced by Whitesnake alum Neil Murray for touring purposes. The songs on Headless Cross ranged from widescreen, malevolent doom anthems like the title track, "Kill in the Spirit World" and the positively awesome "When Death Calls" (featuring a guitar solo by Queen’s Brian May), to comparatively streamlined modern-metal juggernauts like "Devil & Daughter," "Call of the Wild" and "Black Moon."
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