“The idea was to make an album heavier than anything that had ever before”: Tony Iommi on Black Sabbath’s classic debut
Black Sabbath’s first album is effectively ground zero for heavy metal - and as guitarist Tony Iommi recalled, it was an ...
Tony Iommi names the Black Sabbath era that was unfairly overlooked
Black Sabbath has had a number of different singers and eras, each of which has done well, apart from which was unfairly overlooked.
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Black Sabbath: the making of “Paranoid”
From the Uncut archive, the members of Black Sabbath reveal all about "Paranoid" - one of their defining tracks ...
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Black Sabbath's best albums, ranked
Black Sabbath confronted Tony Iommi’s creative constipation by doing the same. And it worked! Immediately! Iommi wrote with the title track’s album-anchoring riff on the first day, and from ...
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Spin the Black Circle: Black Sabbath and the birth of heavy metal
In response, I brought out Black Sabbath’s first three albums this past week — Black Sabbath, Paranoid and Master of Reality — and enjoyed the hell out of hearing them again. Since “Master ...
Black Sabbath tickets ‘harder to get than Oasis’ as thousands are left disappointed
Black Sabbath’s one and only homecoming gig might have been the hardest tickets to get this Valentine’s Day. They went on sale at 10am with fans scrambling for a chance to see Ozzy Osbourne perform at ...