Black Sabbath is dead, and Black Sabbath will never die. Both of these things are true. More than 50 years ago, the Birmingham, England-founded quartet pioneered heavy metal music with songs like “War ...

Tony Iommi is working on music for an upcoming ballet based on the music of Black Sabbath. The production is set to hit the stage in the U.K. in the fall of 2023. The Black Sabbath guitarist shared a ...

Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut album is arguably the most important heavy record album ever made – and for a limited time ...

It's been more than half a century since Black Sabbath officially ushered in the dawn of heavy metal and changed the face of rock 'n' roll forever. There were lineup changes, some successful, some ...

Ozzy Osbourne and the other original members of Black Sabbath, the band credited with creating heavy metal, have played their final show at a massive event held in their hometown of Birmingham. Some ...

Rain patters down as the wind whistles. Church bells ring, thunder cracks. Then, you’re enveloped in the ominous sound of the Devil’s tritone as a distorted voice wails, “What is this… that stands ...

The song opens unlike anything else that had been heard in rock music to date. The sounds of a howling wind, drizzling rain, thunder, and then the slow, repetitive tolling of a bell. Just when you ...

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 ...

It started when Ozzy Osbourne gave Geezer Butler a cryptic book of black magic. Butler had been dabbling in the occult, and moving away from the Catholicism that was so dear to him. But that night ...