New Tony Martin in 2014?

Something I’ve been wanting for ages..  A new Tony Martin album.  Tony’s quite prolific, but appears on everyone else’s projects.  His actual solo output has been just two albums.  One in 1992, when Sabbath was doing the Dehumanizer album.  The other in 2005.   He’s approaching Tom Scholz/Boston level of delays for new material.  :) […]

Neil Murray & Space Elevator

Neil Murray, the man who has been in so many projects, has a new one to add to his ever larger list of them.  This one is called “Space Elevator”, and they have a debut album out in March.  I don’t know a whole lot about it, I just found out about it myself recently. […]

Off the Road with Tony Martin

Off the Road with Tony Martin – A Concert Review by Christopher Alo On Friday November 29th, 2013, ex-Black Sabbath singer Tony Martin played a rare concert appearance in the United States in Middletown, NY, but nobody seems to have heard about it.  It started for me with a phone call from a good friend […]

Last gig of 2013 is over

Tonight was the last gig for 2013, in Birmingham.   It’s been a cool tour.  I saw it myself last summer, but I’m here to ask you.  If you saw the tour, what did you think?   Leave a comment below!  Other than Andrew WK who sucked, it also appears that the opening bands were […]

Charles Bradley Cover of Changes

The song “Changes” from the Vol 4 album in 1972 was a turning point.  It was a slow, ballady song, something that the band had not done up to that point.  The band (in its 1995 incarnation) brought it back live at a gig in Tokyo, but has mostly remained unplayed since that time.   […]

Black Sabbath – Methademic Man

Check this out!   A 20 minute video review / film / photo gallery as taken by one of the photographers (Gustavo Vara) who you see in the front row early on in the show.  Very VERY cool – one of the more unique things like this I’ve seen.  It’s hard to know what to […]

Tony Iommi Awarded Honorary Degree

Today Tony Iommi was given an honorary doctorate from Coventry University.    The degree was, in the words of the university, “in recognition of his contribution to the world of popular music”.    Tony left from the school and went straight to the airport to head for Helsinki for the European Black Sabbath tour. Tony himself […]

Santiago Dufour Strikes Again

If you’ve been a fan of my site for some time now, then you’ve probably seen art by Santiago Dufour before.  He’s an artist from Argentina who does all kinds of drawings for many different musicians.  But he’s done several on Black Sabbath/Heaven & Hell.  Today I discovered he’d done a new one for the […]

Gathered in Their Masses Details

A few weeks ago, it was announced that there will be a live DVD/Blu-Ray from the current Black Sabbath 13 tour.   This should come as NO SURPRISE to anyone, honestly.   What I am a little surprised about is that it is from the Australian tour earlier in the year.   I would have […]

Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers Live

Those who know this site know my affinity for the whole history of the band.  Back in 1983, I was really into the Born Again album, and while I read before it came out that it might be a single album/project tour, I kept hoping we’d get another album from them in 1984.  That didn’t […]