Editing Technical Ecstasy (section)

{{Short description|1976 studio album by Black Sabbath}}
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{{Infobox album
| name       = Technical Ecstasy
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Black Sabbath]]
| cover      = Black-Sabbath-Technical-Ecstasy.jpg
| alt        =
| caption    = Cover design by [[Hipgnosis]]
| released   = 22 October 1976<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/70s/76/Record-Mirror-1976-10-15.pdf|title=Record Mirror review}}</ref>
| recorded   = June 1976
| studio     = [[Criteria Studios|Criteria]], Miami<ref>{{cite magazine |date=16 October 1976 |title=Billboard's Top Album Picks |magazine=Billboard |page=66 |quote=Those precursors of science-fiction teen-oriented hard rock produced themselves at Miami's Criteria Studios...}}</ref>
| genre      = [[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]
| length     = 40:35
| label      = [[Vertigo Records|Vertigo]]
| producer   = Black Sabbath
| prev_title = [[Sabotage (Black Sabbath album)|Sabotage]]
| prev_year  = 1975
| next_title = [[Never Say Die!]]
| next_year  = 1978
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Technical Ecstasy
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = It's Alright | single1date = November 1976<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/68/mode/2up|title=The Great Rock Discography|year=1995 |isbn=9780862415419 |last1=Strong |first1=Martin Charles |publisher=Canongate Press }}</ref>
 | single2     = Gypsy
 | single2date = 1977 (Netherlands)
}}
}}

'''''Technical Ecstasy''''' is the seventh studio album by English [[rock music|rock]] band [[Black Sabbath]], produced by guitarist [[Tony Iommi]] and released in October 1976 by [[Vertigo Records]]. The album received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, peaking at number 13 on the [[UK Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/Black%20Sabbath/ |title = Artists| website=[[Official Charts Company|Official Charts]] }}</ref> and number 51 on the US ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Billboard 200|200]] Album chart,<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r2004|tab=charts-awards |label="''Technical Ecstasy'': Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums" |access-date=30 January 2009}}</ref> later being certified Gold by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] in 1997.{{Certification Cite Ref|region=United States|title=Technical Ecstasy|artist=Black Sabbath|type=album}}

An attempt by the band to experiment and explore other musical territory, ''Technical Ecstasy'' features more [[eclecticism in music|varied]] and complex songs than earlier records, with prominent keyboard parts and effects. One song, the pop ballad "It's Alright", is sung by drummer [[Bill Ward (musician)|Bill Ward]], becoming the band's first song  not sung by frontman [[Ozzy Osbourne]].