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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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