Bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward were all between the ages of 18 and 20 when they began playing together in Birmingham. Naming ...
Black Sabbath’s Vol. 4 reenters the U.K. Rock and Metal Albums chart at No. 39, keeping the band’s catalog alive as other titles decline. UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 06: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Photo of ...
Stop for a moment and picture what the world would be like if it weren’t for Black Sabbath. Sucks, doesn’t it? Without hyperbole, this Birmingham four-piece invented heavy metal as we know it today, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Black Sabbath’s Paranoid climbs to No. 9 on Billboard's Vinyl ...
Black Sabbath confronted the stark downsides of having too much of a good thing as the heavy metal pioneers came off their world tour in 1973. The entire experience (and the copious amount of drugs ...