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I didn't say anything to the contrary. But Shraon calls the shots now man, that much is obviuos. I'm not mad at him for the show, for as I said, he didn't want to do it. He knew it would hurt his image in the Metal community and it did, right or wrong. I respect him. I think Black Sabbath had better singers, namely Tony Martin, but I do respect Ozzy's contributions to the genre as a whole.
And some people do hold Iron Maiden in higher regard than Black Sabbath, and Sharon hates it. She tries to tell people Ozzy wrote everything in Sabbath for crying out loud, when everyone knows it was Geezer and Iommi. she fails to realize that marketing tricks like that, while used all of the time in other mediums, don't work on Metalheads.
I also prefer Dio-era sabbath, and THe Eternal Idol is one of my favourite records... I also love Glenn Hughes on Seventh Star. However, Ozzy will always be a God of metal, even if he didn't write any sabbath songs.
Maiden may be held in higher regard than Sabbath by some people, but I think Maiden were always more commercial than Sabbath. I mean, Sabbath almost never had any good album sleeves! But wasn't all the blues-doom-rock that Sabbath did musically much more interesting than anything maiden ever did? And Tony Iommi can not only out-play Janick Gers, Adrian Smith or Dave Murray but he can definitly improvise the balls off of them and out-songwrite them any day. Tony Iommi invented a whole style of music with his gibson SG, maiden just brought it to fame.
(not to dis maiden, but in my eyes sabbath will always be better)