The owner of the pub where the future members of Black Sabbath played has been accused of "letting Birmingham down" amid an ...

Bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward were all between the ages of 18 and 20 when they began playing together in Birmingham. Naming ...

Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut album is arguably the most important heavy record album ever made – and for a limited time ...

Tony Iommi's guitar is put up as a prize to support Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.

Black Sabbath wrote 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' in the dungeon of a (supposedly) haunted medieval castle in Gloucestershire.

Black Sabbath are rightly enshrined as one of the forefathers of heavy metal. The band’s original line-up – singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward – ...

Although it wouldn’t appear on American record store shelves until the early months of 1971, Black Sabbath’s seminal sophomore album Paranoid began invading the U.K. and Europe on Sept. 18, 1970. It ...

The five decades-plus friendship between Brian May and Tony Iommi is a rare and precious thing ...

Black Sabbath is dead, and Black Sabbath will never die. Both of these things are true. More than 50 years ago, the Birmingham, England-founded quartet pioneered heavy metal music with songs like “War ...

The record that secured their success may never have been made if the battle in Weston-super-Mare, in southwest England, had turned out differently in June 1970. In a recent interview with Kerrang!, ...

Right before his appearance at the 2017 Loudwire Music Awards, legendary Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi took part in a conversation at the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, Calif. During part one ...

Black Sabbath was about more than just Ozzy. All the band members were essential: Tony Iommi, the dark prince of guitar riffs and a two-fisted ladies man; Geezer Butler, the mild-mannered bassist and ...