Jimi Hendrix often ranks as one of the greatest guitarists ever, but there's one who Brian May thinks gives him a run for his ...

Tony Iommi is one of the most prolific guitarists on the planet, and it was his talent that led to the creation of this legendary riff.

Black Sabbath were one of the most iconic bands in the world, but they almost missed out on having the perfect line-up when a ...

ON a Sunday night in mid-November 1969, a new heavy metal band, Black Sabbath, played a gig at a venue in Dumfries. Earlier that month, the ...

Black Sabbath didn’t emerge from nowhere. All four members had previously spent a few years kicking around the West Midlands ...

The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over ...

The result was an album that set the template for stoner rock, sludge and doom metal. Sweet Leaf is the quintessential pothead anthem, introduced by the sound of Iommi choking on a joint. And in ...

Unlike Sabbath's first two albums, this one really dials in the "Sabbath sound". And although it's a short album even by ...

The Metallica drummer appeared on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show this week and was asked how Ozzy seemed in the run-up to the gig. "He was very eloquent and very sharp in his answer,” Ulrich explained.

This concert review was originally published on Nov. 20, 1978. Ozzy Osborne and Co. shook the walls of the Coliseum for two shows that month.

The blues hero has reflected on their unlikely union in 2005, and why he sees Ozzy as heavy metal’s John Mayall ...

Following Ozzy Osbourne’s ousting from Birmingham, England’s Black Sabbath, a band he helped found with Tony Iommi, Terry “Geezer” Butler, and Bill Ward, the group reformed with American vocalist Ronn ...