When we’re talking about influential metal bands, there is no more single influential band to heavy music than Black Sabbath – Full Stop ... there are 18 different albums we’ll be splitting ...

After a succession of influential albums, Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward parted ways with singer Ozzy Osbourne in 1979, and, for a brief time ...

Black Sabbath threw together one of the most popular songs in heavy metal history in an afternoon as an afterthought.

Black Sabbath has re-released vinyl versions of their Tony Martin eras albums. Forbidden, Cross purposes, Headless Cross, and Tyr are all back in print. They were previously re-released as part of a ...

Such was and remains the peculiar reach of Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid”, two ... few minutes more to turn what they had into a full length album – and what they came up with proved decisive.

Exclusive: Renowned guitarist shares some behind-the-scenes intel as the musical director for what is being billed as ‘the ...

But it wouldn’t sound nearly as menacing or as dark (or as awesome) if Black Sabbath didn’t set the template in the early ‘70s. Starting with their self-titled debut album in 1970 ...