Cross Purposes arrived on Jan. 31, 1994, during a period of sustained turbulence for Black Sabbath. Their inability to retain a singer long enough to reclaim their place among metal's leading ...

Plus interviews with Jake E. Lee, Adam Jones, Creed Bratton from The Office, the guys from Goose, former Jethro Tull man Martin Barre, K.K. Downing, Zakk Wylde, Jerry Cantrell, Tom Morello, Lzzy Hale, ...

But in 1994, ‘Cross Purposes’ arrived in stores under the Black Sabbath moniker. But the band once again found themselves lurking in the long shadow of Ozzy Osbourne, who was in the middle of ...

The post Mysterious Woman on Black Sabbath ... the inverted cross on the inside gatefold drew ire from both the band and the conservative press. “I love the front cover,” drummer Bill ...

Here is the most and least played song live off each of Black Sabbath ... like Forbidden and Cross Purposes from the Tony Martin-era. ・The dramatic shift in album cover art ・And just how ...

The cover of Black Sabbath‘s self-titled ... designed the typography for the Black Sabbath logo, as well as the inverted cross. “As far as I recall, the idea of the upside-down cross was ...

first heard the Black Sabbath album, he was struck by how dark it was — and he knew exactly where he wanted to shoot the cover: a 15th-century watermill in the English countryside. For the past ...

Heavy metal gods Black Sabbath with a lineup featuring Tony Iommi ... include Paranoid Mob Rules I Witness Into the Void Headless Cross Time Machine Children of the Grave Anno Mundi and Symptom ...

These are the makings of the classic metal mystique, and they were tropes set by Black Sabbath’s 1970 self-titled debut whose album cover set imaginations ... upside-down cross on the inside ...

1 Time Machine 2 Children Of The Grave 3 I Witness 4 Mob Rules 5 Into The Void 6 Anno Mundi 7 Black ... 13 Headless Cross 14 Paranoid 15 Iron Man 16 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Cross Purposes Live ...

Right off the bat, I need to tell you that the bulk of this issue – with its extra-cool cover illustration by artist Graham Humphreys – is a celebration of Black Sabbath’s historic Back to ...