Seventh Star
by Black Sabbath

Seventh Star by Black Sabbath
Year: 1986
Overall rank: 20,914th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
61/100 (from 72 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1986 (276th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,734th)
Award Best albums of all time (20,914th)

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Black Sabbath bestography

Seventh Star is ranked 18th best out of 47 albums by Black Sabbath on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Black Sabbath is Paranoid which is ranked number 50 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,724.

Black Sabbath album bestography « Higher ranked (19,393rd)
Live Evil
This album (20,914th)
Seventh Star
Lower ranked (21,152nd) »
The Eternal Idol

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Seventh Star rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 20,914th | 1980s rank: 2,734th | 1986 rank: 276th

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Seventh Star ratings

Average Rating: 
61/100 (from 72 votes)
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4 days ago Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  8,32670/100
 
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03/03/2026 23:35 Devilwoac  Ratings distribution  1,05197/100
 
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02/06/2026 09:12 Siromynian  Ratings distribution  1,62978/100
 
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11/26/2025 18:34 JamesMowbray  Ratings distribution  5,39269/100
 
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11/05/2025 17:51 platus  Ratings distribution  5,87674/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 61.2/100, a mean average of 59.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 59.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.

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From 02/03/2022 16:20 | #280578
I will always defend from the deep of my heart this album: ok, is not like the first 6, but great work and, in some occasions, really excellent songs.
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From 12/15/2016 17:05 | #180242
Not really a Sabbath album, this was a Tony Iommi solo project that the record company forces the Sabbath name onto for marketing purposes (exactly what happened with the Ian Anderson project released as Jethro Tull's "A"). Not on par with Sabbath's best, but certainly better than their worst, this is a fine album if you're not expecting to hear classic Sabbath.
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From 02/18/2016 14:26 | #160117
This is a great BS album, that's started off as a Tony Iommi solo album, but the record company didn't agree. One of my favorite BS albums.
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