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.

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 ...

One of Ozzy Osbourne ‘s favourite guitarists ever was, of course, Tony Iommi. But there was another who charmed him, one with ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

As a fellow blues guitarist, Joe Bonamassa appreciates Mayall’s importance to guitar’s pantheon of great players. And in an interview with CBS News 24/7, Bonamassa says he believes Ozzy Osbourne ...

According to a death certificate obtained by The New York Times, the 76-year-old died of “out of hospital cardiac arrest” and ...

Cage the Elephant covered Ozzy Osbourne's 'Changes' in tribute to the late singer at their Lollapalooza performance ...