On Dec. 17, 2024, a post on X showed a photo, purportedly from 1985, that listed Western musical acts allegedly banned in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The circulated list ...

Sure, you perhaps know him as the former frontman of Black Flag and Rollins Band ... still enthusiastic about Record Store Day and eBay, Discogs, having a want list and hitting the record store ...

When Ozzy Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, it threw the band’s future in doubt – but they returned with a new ...

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 – ...

Loudwire Nights wants to know which early Black Sabbath album classic you think is better - 'Paranoid' or 'Master of Reality.

Black Sabbath isn’t the easiest rock band in the world to cover, even if a few of their songs are on the simple side of metal. In fact, we’d say that most heavy metal songs aren’t exactly ...

Later in the discussion, however, their sights turned to new material and the rumours circulating that Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi would be appearing on a new track called ‘Rocket’.

Heavy metal certainly had its origins prior to Black Sabbath's 1970 debut album – and more specifically, the intro riff to the opening song "Black Sabbath" – but the genre cer ...

According to the booklet, one "mark of the beast" is not observing the Sabbath on Saturday. It is alleged that in the fourth century the Church and Emperor Constantine replaced the Sabbath with ...

Black Sabbath is a pioneer of heavy metal — perhaps the genre's godfathers. Even so, the band was never one-dimensional in its sound. The same can be said about "Changes" from Vol. 4 (1972).It's ...

Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole ...