“the metal icon has quicksilver in his veins on first album in a decade”
“With a mix of soulful midnight confessionals and free-spirited rockers, the Prince of Darkness bares his soul on his 12th solo album”
“On his best album in decades, the most famous man in metal reaches again for big hooks and big statements, with help from new friends like Post Malone.”
“Given his recent tribulations – notably his diagnosis with Parkinson’s – it’s hardly surprising that there is a sometimes elegiac feel to Ozzy Osbourne’s 12th solo album. “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, I gave my life a try / Forgive me, I didn’t say goodbye,” he sings on Goodbye. On the title track, a stately duet in the post-Beatles mould with Elton John, he opens with the observation “I was unprepare”
