Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: N'ịgbaso arụmọrụ azụmahịa na-adịghị mma nke The Eternal Idol, Black Sabbath kwụsịrị site na Vertigo Records na Warner Bros. Records, ma bịanyere aka na I.R.S. Records. Ìgwè ahụ wepụtara oge na 1988, na-alọghachi n'August iji malite ọrụ na album ọzọ ha. N'ihi nsogbu nke ndekọ na Eternal Idol, Tony Iommi họọrọ imepụta album ọzọ nke otu ahụ n'onwe ya. "Ọ bụ mmalite ọhụrụ kpam kpam", ka Iommi kwuru. "Ekwesịrị m ichebara ihe nile echiche, ma kpebie na ọ dị anyị mkpa inwetaghachi nkwenye". Iommi kpọbatara onye bụbu Rainbow drummer Cozy Powell, keyboardist ogologo oge Nicholls na onye bassist Laurence Cottle, wee gbazite "ụlọ ọrụ dị ọnụ ala na England". Black Sabbath wepụtara Headless Cross n'April 1989, ndị nyocha nke oge a elegharakwa ya anya, ọ bụ ezie na onye na-enye onyinye AllMusic Eduardo Rivadavia nyere album kpakpando anọ ma kpọọ ya "ọkpụkpọ kacha mma na-abụghị Ozzy ma ọ bụ Dio Black Sabbath". N'ịbụ onye aha ya bụ "Headless Cross" nke gbara n'ọkwa nke 62, album ahụ ruru n'ọkwa nke 31 na UK, na nke 115 na US Queen guitarist Brian May, ezigbo enyi nke Iommi, na-egwu egwu ọbịa na abụ "Mgbe Ọnwụ Na-akpọ". Mgbe a tọhapụrụ album ahụ, ndị otu ahụ gbakwunyere onye bassist na-eme njem, Neil Murray, onye bụbu Colosseum II, National Health, Whitesnake, Gary Moore's backing band, na Vow Wow. Ntughari na-enweghị isi nke United States malitere na May 1989 na ndị mmeghe Alaeze na-abịa na Silent Rage, ma n'ihi ahịa ahịa dị ala, a kagbuola njem ahụ mgbe naanị ihe ngosi asatọ gasịrị. Akụkụ Europe nke njem ahụ malitere na Septemba, ebe ndị otu ahụ na-enwe ọganiihu chaatị. Mgbe usoro ihe omume ndị Japan gasịrị, ndị otu ahụ malitere njem ụbọchị 23 na Russia na Girlschool. Black Sabbath bụ otu n'ime ìgwè ndị mbụ gara njem Russia, mgbe Mikhail Gorbachev meghere mba ahụ na ndị ọrụ ọdịda anyanwụ maka oge mbụ na 1989. Ìgwè ahụ laghachiri na studio na February 1990 iji dekọọ Tyr, na-esote na Cross na-enweghị isi. Ọ bụ ezie na ọ bụghị album echiche, ụfọdụ n'ime okwu ndị dị na album ahụ dabere na Norse...  Ajụjụ: Olee mgbe òtù egwú ahụ lọghachiri?
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