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There are a lot of ways to honor Ozzy Osbourne’s legacy, but his most surprising strength was how well he played with others.
Grammy award-winning artist Brann Dailor, drummer of Mastodon, played at Black Sabbath's Back to the Beginning.
According to a death certificate obtained by The New York Times, the 76-year-old died of “out of hospital cardiac arrest” and ...
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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over ...
Unlike Sabbath's first two albums, this one really dials in the "Sabbath sound". And although it's a short album even by ...
As a fellow blues guitarist, Joe Bonamassa appreciates Mayall’s importance to guitar’s pantheon of great players. And in an ...
Black Sabbath didn’t emerge from nowhere. All four members had previously spent a few years kicking around the West Midlands ...
One of Ozzy Osbourne ‘s favourite guitarists ever was, of course, Tony Iommi. But there was another who charmed him, one with ...