Having influenced scores of metal guitarists, Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi confessed to seeing any attempt at mimicking their pioneering sound as a futile task.

Despite Black Sabbath being masters of metal throughout their run with Ozzy Osbourne, The Prince of Darkness has his soft ...

With the exception of instrumental tracks, there are a total of 20 songs from Sabbath's albums with Osbourne that never made ...

I’m not making that up, it may as well be Black Sabbath Boogie-Woogie. The last album to feature Ozzy, and it starts with an almost note-for-note riff cover of “The Boys Are Back In Town” by ...

It was in early 1969, after a change of name from The Polka Tulk Blues Band to Earth, that Iommi heard the first Led Zeppelin album and vowed to make music that was, in his words, “even heavier”.

Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. After a lengthy farewell tour and a final studio album, heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath had officially closed the book back ...

Children of the Grave Formed in 1968, Jazz Sabbath ... a debut album from a band without its musical leader. When Milton was finally released from hospital in September 1970, he found out that a band ...