Black Sabbath are the undisputed godfathers of heavy metal. Beginning with their eponymous debut and seminal sophomore LP, ‘Paranoid’ (both released in 1970), the quartet from Birmingham ...

Well, here’s a gift that will rock their world: “Black Sabbath: The Vinyl Collection 1970-1978.” The glorious nine-LP boxed set features Sabbath’s first eight studio efforts — the first ...

Buzz Osborne dives into 'Thunderball,' the new album from Melvins 1983 and reflects on how he discovered music growing up in ...

Black Sabbath threw together one of the most popular songs in heavy metal history in an afternoon as an afterthought.

Here is the most and least played song live off each of Black Sabbath‘s studio albums ... How many times the most played song is connected to the album title ・How often the band dipped ...

Rhino's heavyweight Hi-Fi series continues with a couple of absolute, slam-dunk classics. Heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath's second album, originally released way back in 1970, features some of ...

They are preserved perfectly in vinyl. The best Black Sabbath album of all time is their self-titled debut, ‘Black Sabbath’. This is because it marks the beginning of the heavy metal era ...

The opening landslide of riffery on this Vol 4 “album track” is arguably as apocalyptic as Black Sabbath ever got, and then the song crashes forth, frantic, herky-jerky, with Bill the busiest ...

But it wouldn’t sound nearly as menacing or as dark (or as awesome) if Black Sabbath didn’t set the template in the early ‘70s. Starting with their self-titled debut album in 1970 ...