10 Rock Bands That Bounced Back From Bad Albums

10. Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath

You can only count on one hand the amount of rock bands who were able to thrive without their lead singer. Since the one delivering the tunes is known as the mouth of the band at the best of times, there's always going to be special attention paid to them before anything else. When it came to Black Sabbath, it really felt like the end of an era once Ozzy Osbourne decided to call it quits.

Coming off of the often maligned Never Say Die, Ozzy was burned out and couldn't really see working with Tony Iommi and the rest of his bandmates in the future. Instead of getting an Ozzy clone though, Iommi found another one of a kind frontman in Ronnie James Dio, who brought them to the top all over again with Heaven and Hell. The new Sabbath felt like a rebirth in every sense of the word, going from the bluesy attack of the Ozzy years to a much more refined metallic spit with Dio's shrieks.

Considering this was coming off of the early '80s, this also became the foundation for the new guard of heavy metal going forward, with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal not far behind this very album. For all of the drawbacks that came with losing a guy like Ozzy, this is where Sabbath became a dark phoenix that rose from the ashes of their first fallout.