As some of you might remember, last November, Tony Iommi released his autobiography, “Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath”, and this site dispatched our intrepid reporter Damian to the sleepy little hamlet of Ridgewood, New Jersey to cover the signing. Damian produced a three and a half minute video which had […]
Ozzy to release Speak of the Devil DVD
May 9, 2012 by 21 Comments
In the early 80’s, Ozzy released a live album titled “Speak of the Devil”. This was done in the aftermath of the death of Randy Rhoads. It was supposed to be a live album with him, but as legend goes, Oz didn’t want Randy’s name on an album called “Speak of the Devil” (Talk of […]
Happy Birthday Bill Ward!
May 5, 2012 by 33 Comments
Happy Birthday to the founding (and hopefully still future) drummer in Black Sabbath.
Children Killing Children
May 4, 2012 by 9 Comments
Wanted to point out a criminally under appreciated song in the Black Sabbath family. It’s the song “Children Killing Children” from Bill Ward’s 1997 solo album, “When the Bough Breaks“. The album was quite good when new, and has held up well, I think. As today is Bill’s birthday, I thought I’d throw something […]
May 19 Warmup Gig in Birmingham
April 30, 2012 by 59 Comments
An additional live show has been announced this morning. Black Sabbath will play what’s being called “A Warmup Gig” on May 19th in Birmingham, England at the O2 Academy. The warmup being for the Download Festival in early June. They’re playing the O2 Academy. At this time, there’s no word as to whether there […]
The Southern Cross Band Info
April 26, 2012 by 9 Comments
In about two and a half weeks, it will be the two year anniversary of the death of Ronnie James Dio. Ronnie’s life has touched numerous musicians and fans. A lot of people continue to mourn the loss of Ronnie. Some of his final band members toured under the moniker of “Dio Disciples” late […]
The Old Mailing List
April 26, 2012 by 6 Comments
If any of you were on the old mailing list – going way back to 1997.. I was wondering if perhaps you might remember this.. Back then we were bemoaning the fact that every tribute or compilation album was full of just tracks from the Ozzy era, and we were looking to push some of […]
Some Cool Acoustic Fan Video
April 21, 2012 by 6 Comments
In my travels running this site, I see a lot of videos of people playing Black Sabbath songs. Some are good. Some are crap. Every once in awhile one pops up that is to me head and shoulders above the rest. Ran into the latter tonight. This guy posted one of his videos on the […]
Quartz cover of “Heaven & Hell”
April 17, 2012 by 9 Comments
A week ago I got an email from one of the guys in Quartz about a video they posted from their reunion show late last year. This one is their tribute to Dio, they played the track “Heaven & Hell”. What’s interesting about that is that Geoff Nicholls was one of the originators of the […]
Miranha
April 17, 2012 by 3 Comments
A few weeks ago, I posted a Tony Iommi tribute video, and I was asked what the song on there was. As was noted in the comments, the track is called “Miranha”, and it was recorded around 1990 during the time of the Tyr sessions. It’s a track that was created for a compilation […]
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