Rock critics hated the album, just as they had all the others, but Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was universally adored by loyal fans. The band’s initial attempts to write and record in the sunny but ...

Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is still considered a classic and influential release. Yet there was a time in the summer of 1973 when it looked like the follow-up to Vol.

We set our gear up in the dungeons. Bloody hell, straight away the first riff I came up with was that one from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. “I knew I really liked the sound of it, and then we built ...

When we're talking about influential metal bands, there is no more single influential band to heavy music than Black Sabbath – Full Stop. Whether it's Ozzy's bizarre singing style or Tony Iommi ...

Candlemass have been killing it at doom metal since the early 80’s, so the fact that they’ve decided to cover “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” by the legendary, you guessed it, Black Sabbath, just makes sense ...

Article continues below By the time they dropped Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in 1973, the critics had started to come around. It's speculated their initial name might have been a stumbling block to ...

4 (1972), Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1974), Sabotage (1975), Technical Ecstasy (1976), Never Say Die! (1978). Each of the vinyl records will contain the album’s original artwork on side A of their ...

Black Sabbath retired following an extensive farewell tour from 2016 to 2017. The shows featured three of the band’s four founding members – singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi and ...

(If you need a reminder, between them came 1970’s Paranoid, the following year’s Master Of Reality, 1972’s Vol 4, 1973’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and then 1975’s Sabotage and the ...