When you have a band with as storied of a career as Black Sabbath, you tend to pick up fans across several different eras. There are those like Rob Halford and Glenn Danzig who will never forget where ...

Bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward were all between the ages of 18 and 20 when they began playing together in Birmingham. Naming ...

Today’s metal bands are a bunch of slackers, relatively speaking. You think releasing an album every three years is hard work? Imagine what it was like four decades ago, when heavy metal barely ...

On this day (October 10) in 1970, Black Sabbath was at No. 1 with their sophomore album Paranoid. Released just seven months after the band’s self-titled debut album, it contained some of their ...

Black Sabbath’s first manager has paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne following his death and declared: “He’s simply irreplaceable.” Music promoter Jim Simpson first heard the band at his Henry’s Blueshouse ...

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Black Sabbath’s Vol. 4 reenters the U.K. Rock and Metal Albums chart at No. 39, keeping the band’s catalog alive as other titles decline. UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 06: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Photo of ...

Black Sabbath's first manager has paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne following his death and declared: "He's simply irreplaceable." Music promoter Jim Simpson first heard the band at his Henry’s Blueshouse ...