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 ...

Strangers When We Meet is a Kingsport-based band that I first started hearing about last year. I knew of James “Jay-Dub” ...

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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.

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

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

One of Black Sabbath's enduring cuts, a memorable feature to the stoner rock classic 'Sweet Leaf' is the looped audio of ...

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

Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler is reflecting on the band's final rehearsals with Ozzy Osbourne. In a piece written for The Sunday Times, the band's co-founder detailed how "frail" the late ...

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has confessed that he “wasn’t prepared to see how frail” Ozzy Osbourne was when they met to rehearse for their band’s final show. On 5 July, the ...

Black Sabbath co-founder Geezer Butler recalls the band's final rehearsals and concert before Ozzy Osbourne's July 22 death.