Geezer Butler recalled the moment Tony Iommi played the song “Paranoid” to his Black Sabbath bandmates, and they initially ...

The newly slimmed-down and rechristened band’s early setlists consisted entirely of covers. “We were doing 12 bar blues and ...

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 ...

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, the first true heavy metal band, were powered by the bowel-shaking, devilishly down-tuned riffs of Tony Iommi, ...

Ozzy Osbourne’s cause of death has been revealed. The Black Sabbath frontman officially died at age 76 from cardiac arrest, ...