Black Sabbath had left the band. Walker, who was at that time fronting a band called Mistress, flew to Birmingham from California in late 1977 to write material and rehearse with Black Sabbath. On 8 January 1978, Black Sabbath made their only live performance with Walker on vocals, playing an early version of the song "Junior's Eyes" on the BBC Television programme "Look! Hear!" Walker later recalled that while in Birmingham he had bumped into Osbourne in a pub and came to the conclusion that Osbourne was not fully committed to leaving Black Sabbath. "The last Sabbath albums were just very depressing
Born Again (Black Sabbath album) drummer of Black Flag, stated the band was listening to the album around the time of "My War", defining songs like "Trashed" and "Disturbing the Priest" as "ideal". In 1984, Ozzy Osbourne stated that the album was the "best thing I've heard from Sabbath since the original group broke up". In 1992 Iommi confessed to "Guitar World", "To be honest, I didn't like some of the songs on that album—and the production was awful. We never had time to test the pressings after it was recorded, and something happened to it by the time it got released." A re-mastered 'Deluxe