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 ...

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 ...

Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died ...

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 ...

The 2025 World Matchplay is in the history books and what an edition of the yearly Winter Gardens spectacle it was. Dartsnews.com was there, present in the press room, seeing all the action first ...

Brent Cobb, a Nashville songwriter and critically acclaimed swamp rocker, achieves his hardest, heaviest album to date with "Ain't Rocked in a while." ...

Ozzy Osbourne's bandmate Zakk Wylde revealed the final text message he received from the Black Sabbath frontman. Newsweek reached out to Wylde's representative for comment on Thursday via email ...