Ozzy Osbourne knew he’d found a gem in the wild when he landed Randy Rhoads as his guitarist in late 1979. Rhoads was a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut album is arguably the most important heavy record album ever ...

Tony Iommi took the stage for the first time since Black Sabbath’s final show in July, making a surprise appearance Wednesday evening during the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s performance of Black Sabbath ...

Despite the enticing cultural dissonance of its title, Black Sabbath – The Ballet is, by definition, a terrible idea. It is the conceptual equivalent of putting a tuxedo on a pit bull, or hiring ...

Black Sabbath was about more than just Ozzy. All the band members were essential: Tony Iommi, the dark prince of guitar riffs and a two-fisted ladies man; Geezer Butler, the mild-mannered bassist and ...

Few bands loom larger in the history of heavy music than Black Sabbath. From their thunderous debut in 1970 to their final studio release more than four decades later, Sabbath didn’t just help invent ...

Our list of Ozzy Osbourne's 11 best vocal performances with Black Sabbath is here to remind you what a monster the Prince of Darkness was behind the mic. Despite being the most famous figure in the ...

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King Charles III’s Band of the Coldstream Guards paid tribute to late heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne with a rendition of Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid.” Guards dressed in their iconic red tunics and fur ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Me and my high school friends, when we got tired of bemoaning Chicago’s crappy sports teams and our lack of success with girls, would often pass the time by debating which rock bands were “metal.” ...

It was Oct. 30, 1970. Black Sabbath was scheduled to make its first ever U.S. appearance at Glassboro State College’s Esbjornson Gymnasium in South Jersey. And Ozzy Osbourne was running late. The ...