I wrote quite a lot of music for that album and I thought some of the songs were decent. But I had a big problem with it overall. The record label insisted that Cross Purposes, as it would be called, be released under the Sabbath banner, but I thought we’d been working on an Iommi/Butler project. For that reason, I don’t consider it to be a Sabbath album.
Cross Purposes is a very good hard rock album in my opinion and criminally underrated. Certainly contains Tony Martin's best singing out of all of his Black Sabbath records.
