When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: MM-Media Archive/Iconicpix This is how it all begins. It’s May 1969 and four young men ...

“This has really freaked me out,” says Ozzy Osbourne, in his inimitable Brummie drawl. His band, Black Sabbath, who at the turn of the 1970s forged a powerful, simplified version of ‘prog rock’ and in ...

What would you do if you were given the opportunity to ask Ozzy Osbourne one question? Shortly before Black Sabbath's New York City Town Hall celebration for their latest full-length album, '13,' the ...

Many, many years ago, when this reporter was just a few months into his first music industry job as the assistant editor of a now-long defunct teen heavy metal magazine called Faces, he was lucky ...

Black Sabbath guitar hero Tony Iommi will always have rock ‘n’ roll in his soul. He won’t, however, always have it on the stage: Iommi is weeks away from retiring from the road. After his long battle ...

It wasn’t until Black Sabbath started work on their ninth album, Heaven and Hell, in 1979 that bassist Geezer Butler was able to get an objective perspective on his band’s capabilities. The group had ...

Black Sabbath is one of my all-time favorite bands, right up there with Joy Division, Pink Floyd and the Cowboy Junkies. And I’m going to miss Sabbath terribly after it waves goodbye at the conclusion ...

Whilst Black Sabbath may have gained mainstream notoriety through the antics of its bat-beheading frontman, the band’s musical legacy has lived on for so many years largely thanks to the labours of a ...

“Ozzy was so bowled over that someone would use his whole life for something so specific and different.” Photo: AXS TV via YouTube Mac Sabbath, whose members maintain anonymity behind their characters ...

Whilst Black Sabbath may have gained mainstream notoriety through the antics of its bat-beheading frontman, the band’s musical legacy has lived on for so many years largely thanks to the labours of a ...