Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Black Sabbath ya fara aiki don kundi na gaba a Criteria Studios a Miami, Florida, a watan Yunin 1976. Don fadada sautinsu, ƙungiyar ta ƙara mai kunna keyboard Gerry Woodruffe, wanda kuma ya bayyana a ƙaramin mataki a Sabotage. A lokacin rikodin Technical Ecstasy, Osbourne ya yarda cewa ya fara rasa sha'awar Black Sabbath kuma ya fara la'akari da yiwuwar yin aiki tare da wasu mawaƙa. Rikodi na Fasaha na Fasaha ya kasance mai wahala; a lokacin da aka kammala kundin Osbourne an shigar da shi a asibitin Stafford County Asylum a Burtaniya. An sake shi a ranar 25 ga Satumba, 1976 don sake dubawa, kuma (a karo na farko) daga baya masu sukar kiɗa sun ba wa kundin bayanan da ba su da kyau; shekaru ashirin bayan fitowar ta AllMusic ya ba wa kundin taurari biyu, kuma ya lura cewa ƙungiyar tana "ɓata a cikin hanzari mai ban tsoro". Kundin ya nuna ƙasa da mummunan, mummunan sauti na ayyukan da suka gabata, kuma ya haɗa da ƙarin kayan haɗin kai da waƙoƙin dutsen uptempo. Technical Ecstasy ya kasa kaiwa saman 50 a cikin Amurka, kuma shine sakin rukuni na biyu a jere wanda bai sami matsayin platinum ba, kodayake daga baya an tabbatar da zinare a cikin 1997. Kundin ya hada da "Dirty Women", wanda ya kasance mai zaman kansa, da kuma na farko na Ward a kan waƙar "It's Alright". Tafiya don tallafawa Fasaha Fasaha ta fara ne a watan Nuwamba na 1976, tare da masu buɗewa Boston da Ted Nugent a Amurka, kuma an kammala su a Turai tare da AC / DC a watan Afrilu na 1977. A ƙarshen 1977, yayin da suke gwaji don kundin su na gaba, kuma kwanaki kaɗan kafin ƙungiyar ta shiga cikin ɗakin studio, Osbourne ba zato ba tsammani ya bar ƙungiyar. Iommi ya kira mawaki Dave Walker, tsohon abokin kungiyar, wanda a baya ya kasance memba na Fleetwood Mac da Savoy Brown, kuma ya sanar da shi cewa Osbourne ya bar kungiyar. Walker, wanda a wancan lokacin yake jagorantar ƙungiyar da ake kira Mistress, ya tashi zuwa Birmingham daga California a ƙarshen 1977 don rubuta kayan aiki da yin gwaji tare da Black Sabbath. A ranar 8 ga Janairu, 1978, Black Sabbath sun yi wasan kwaikwayon su na rayuwa tare da Walker a kan murya, suna wasa da farkon waƙar...  Tambaya: Me ya sa suka daina?
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