The release of Black Sabbath’s Headless Cross should have been a cause for celebration, since it coincided with their 20th anniversary. But guitarist Tony Iommi was all that remained from the ...

Black Sabbath themselves also favored Macmillan’s evocative final sleeve; however, the inverted cross on the inside gatefold drew ire from both the band and the conservative press.

One of his fellow students from the Royal College of Art, Sandy Field, designed the typography for the Black Sabbath logo, as well as the inverted cross. “As far as I recall, the idea of the ...

When Black Sabbath first attempted to tour America ... in the U.K., their label took things one hooved step further by printing an inverted cross on the inside sleeve with a passage about a ...

On February 13, 1970 (a Friday, naturally), heavy metal was definitively born with the release of Black Sabbath’s ... while the first they knew of the inverted cross and gothic poetry inside ...

Cross Purposes arrived on Jan. 31, 1994, during a period of sustained turbulence for Black Sabbath. Their inability to retain a singer long enough to reclaim their place among metal's leading ...

“I’m having the time of my life,” he says, revelling in the success that has greeted the reformation of the classic Black Sabbath ... I didn’t like the inverted cross on the inside.