Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I muri i te mahi pakihi kore o The Eternal Idol, i whakahekehia a Black Sabbath e Vertigo Records me Warner Bros. Records, ka hainatia ki I.R.S. Records. I tangohia e te roopu te wa i te tau 1988, ka hoki mai i Akuhata ki te tiimata ki te mahi i ta raatau pukaemi e whai ake nei. Na nga raru o te rekoata me Eternal Idol, i kowhiria e Tony Iommi te whakaputa i te pukaemi a muri ake o te roopu. "He tīmatanga hou rawa", i mea a Iommi. "I whakaaro anō ahau i te mea katoa, a, i whakatau ahau me hanga anō e mātou he pono". I whakauruhia e Iommi te kaiwhakaari Rainbow o mua a Cozy Powell, te kaituku papapātuhi roa a Nicholls me te kaiwaiata o te huihuinga a Laurence Cottle, ka riihi i tetahi "whare tino iti i Ingarangi". I tukuna e Black Sabbath a Headless Cross i te Paenga-whawha 1989, a kaore ano kia aro atu ki nga kaitohutohu o naianei, ahakoa i whakawhiwhia e AllMusic a Eduardo Rivadavia ki te pukaemi e wha nga whetu ka kiia ko "te pukaemi pai rawa atu kaore i te Ozzy, i te Dio Black Sabbath ranei". I whakanohoia e te tokorua 62 "Headless Cross", i eke te pukaemi ki te 31 i runga i nga papa UK, me te 115 i te US. Ko te kaiwaiata o Queen a Brian May, he hoa pai o Iommi, i purei i te waiata "When Death Calls". Whai muri i te tukunga o te pukaemi i taapirihia e te roopu te kaiwaiata bass Neil Murray, i mua o Colosseum II, National Health, Whitesnake, te roopu tautoko a Gary Moore, me Vow Wow. I tiimata te haerenga a Headless Cross US i te Mei 1989 me nga whakatuwhera o te Rangatiratanga Haere mai me Silent Rage, engari na te kore o te hoko tiikiti, i whakakorea te haerenga i muri i nga whakaaturanga e waru noa iho. I tiimata te taha Pakeha o te haerenga i te marama o Hepetema, i reira te roopu e koa ana ki te angitu o te mahere. Whai muri i te raupapa o nga whakaaturanga Hapanihi ka tiimata te roopu ki te haerenga 23 ra a Russia me Girlschool. Ko Black Sabbath tetahi o nga roopu tuatahi ki te haere ki Russia, i muri i te whakatuwheratanga a Mikhail Gorbachev i te whenua ki nga mahi o te hauauru mo te wa tuatahi i te 1989.I hoki mai te roopu ki te whare wananga i te Hui-tanguru 1990 ki te tuhi Tyr, te whai ake ki te Headless Cross. Ahakoa ehara i te pukaemi ariā, ko ētahi o ngā kaupapa o te pukaemi e hāngai ana ki te reo Norse...  Pātai: Āhea te hokinga mai o te rōpū?
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