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 ...

The tritone has been blamed for chaos, banned by choirs, and embraced by metalheads. Here’s what the 'devil's interval' ...

Bill Ward, whose drumming defined percussion for the genre, stuck with Black Sabbath until the 1980s, leaving after the release of Heaven and Hell. He has rejoined the group intermittently since then.

Drummer Vinny Appice has responded to rumours that there was a feud between Ozzy Osbourne and Ronnie James Dio.

As Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath's guitarist and primary composer claimed in his 2011 autobiography "Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath," the entire band was abusing ...

Thirty-one-year-old Ozzy Osbourne had just been ejected from Black Sabbath, the band he’d fronted for a decade and the only ...

The frontman, who with Black Sabbath helped pioneer heavy metal in 1970s England, always found new ways to reinvent himself.

Sabbath and Ozzy were too volatile a combo for their own good, though. The experimentation and antics that had built the band drove a wedge between them.

By eight am, it’s too hot to stay in a tent. The stages are packed before lunchtime and we are raring to go for another day ...

The inheritors of the thrash throne have undoubtedly been the Germans. Teutonic thrash, as it’s often called, lagged behind ...