you can say whatever you like about Ozzy. He’s a bit deaf from over 50 years of being an absolute legend, co-architect of heavy metal and survivor of multiple neardeath experiences and, famously, can’t fucking hear you. Whether the great man will ever make a full return to live performance seems questionable, but he deserves a huge amount of credit for powering through those well documented health issues and recording a second studio album in two years. Even more deserving of praise is the fact that is really, really good. By ditching the streamlined, radio-banger approach of its predecessor in favour of a darker, heavier, more nuanced strain of epic metal, Ozzy has conjured some
