On an "emotional" level, it is clearly my favorite Sabbath album and remains, in any case, a magnificent record, the last ("Sabotage" is nice but I find it a step below the previous ones) piece of a quintet of incredible albums. "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" is, much more than "IV," the album where arrangements, styles, and ideas are actually used that musically constitute a noticeable shift from the past (I mean, so many keyboards, used like this and in such a number of songs, with them in '73 was still unheard of), even if, in fact, the trademark is still rooted in previous works, even though here you sometimes find slimmed-down hard rock riffs and somewhat faster, "lively" rhythms than usual (in "Sabbra Cadabra," a piece I adore, this characteristic is accentuated by the guest piano and mini-moog of Svegliuomo Riccardo, with a rhythm less "lava flow" - what the hell am I saying - compared to their other classics). The riff-based slowness can be found in "Who Are You" in a certain sense, but with synthesizers instead of guitars. For the rest, the acoustic oasis of "Fluff," the fluted hints of "Looking for Today," are all subtleties already appeared in their repertoire, the use of strings in "Spiral Architect" being stronger and newer (strings that don’t drive me crazy here, despite the beauty of the song). Well, for my tastes, the last truly excellent album of Antonuzzo and company.
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