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Patient Number 9

Ozzy Osbourne

Patient Number 9

Thirteenth solo studio album from the former Black Sabbath singer featuring guest appearances from Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Tony Iommi, Mike McCready, and Zakk Wylde

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Sony
UK Release date
09/09/2022
US Release date
09/09/2022
  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    Ozzy sounds hypercharged throughout Patient Number 9, continuing the unlikely late-in-the-game comeback he began on Ordinary Man, and besting that album by taking more chances
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    The irrepressible rocker offsets his usual forays into the occult with moving contemplations of illness on a star-studded return
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  3. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Inevitably, it is the two tunes which have Tony Iommi on his detuned six-string that are going to get the most attention
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  4. 8.0 |   NME

    Reports may have focused on his ill-health, but the Prince of Fucking Darkness sounds full of vim and vigour on album number 13
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  5. 8.0 |   Kerrang!

    A massive celebration of life and friendship and the magic power of music. 'I'll never die, because I'm immortal!' he announces on Immortal. He sounds it
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  6. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Even as Osbourne clambers from the grave in its second half and sets about wreaking undead revenge on his enemies, an anguished fatalism soaks the record
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  7. 6.0 |   Mojo

    The arrangements sound less finessed, less "performed" and more file-shared this time out, and you sense Patient Number 9 has known corrective surgery. The great man's ongoing rage against the dying of the light still as its triumphs, though. Print edition only

  8. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Ultimately, this doesn’t sound like a long goodbye from one of heavy metal’s foremost heroes and founding fathers, but a playful, defiant and gloriously over-the-top statement that screams the show must go on
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