While the album is regarded as a departure in sound and theme for Black Sabbath, only three of the songs are really Norse inspired (the instrumental "The Battle of Tyr", "Odin's Court", and "Valhalla"). The album's title and many of its songs are based on Norse mythology and the reasoning for that, according to Tony Iommi in his autobiography "Iron Man", was that the overtly Satanic and occult themes for Headless Cross were too "in your face" and told Martin to be "a little more subtle about it". Tyr is Black Sabbath's fifteenth studio album and the third to feature Tony Martin on vocals. Lyrically the album is also much darker in comparison to its predecessor, especially due to its use of occult imagery, especially apparent in "Black Moon", "Kill in the Spirit World", and the title track. The song "Nightwing", according to Martin, features the original guide vocals because Iommi felt like that take was better than any of the others. Headless Cross was really written with Martin's voice in mind and you can really hear it in just how much more powerful his performances are, especially on tracks like "Call of the Wild", "Headless Cross", and "Black Moon". Iommi originally considered bringing Dio back into the fold, but after some convincing from Powell, decided to let Martin stay for the album.
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Records, who gave him free reign to do as he pleased. After being dropped from Warner Bros., Iommi signed the band to I.R.S.
Headless Cross is Tony Martin's sophomore effort with Sabbath and, in addition to being the first one he had a hand in writing (not including the aforementioned B-sides), is the first album to include drummer Cozy Powell.
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