Live at Last and Past Lives Re-Released

The pile of release announcements continues with some other releases from the past. As with the Seventh Star & Eternal Idol announcement, I’m here to announce that available now are Deluxe Edition versions of the “Live at Last” album, as well as “Past Lives”. These are available now (they were technically released yesterday). Both of […]

Dio: Holy Diver Live to come out on Blu-Ray

The late Ronnie James Dio was one of the greatest rock singers of all time, most notably with Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his own band Dio. It was at London’s Astoria Theatre on October 22nd 2005 that Dio took to the stage to deliver one of the most memorable performances of their career. Not only […]

Ray Gillen Eternal Idol to be Released – FOR REAL!

I’ve been running this site now for a little over 15 years. In all that time, I get a LOT of requests for bootlegs and whatnot. I generally don’t participate in that stuff, since I do not have time for it. However, it doesn’t stop people from asking. And in all that time, by far […]

Really good Geezer Butler Interview

Short and sweet. If you haven’t seen this interview with Geezer Butler, where he talks about the death of Dio, the Paranoid album, and a bunch of other things, you’re missing out. Go read this interview over at bravewords.com!

Tony Iommi’s Guitar Stolen

I’ve received a request from Tony’s management to post a news story. “Sadly, my RED CUSTOM SHOP IOMMI SG was stolen at the tribute show Heaven and Hell performed at High Voltage on July 24th. If you have any information or leads please let us know, we are offering a reward” – Tony They’ve also […]

Dying for Love Fan Video

I was taking a stab at my inbox this afternoon. Not much has happened with it, I got seriously backlogged yet again (this email was sent on Nov 16th last year!). Anyway, I found this pretty cool little gem. It’s a fan made video (by John Belantakis) for the Cross Purposes track, “Dying for Love”. […]

Video from the High Voltage Festival

Here’s Heaven & Hell Black Sabbath doing “Heaven & Hell” with Jorn Lande & Glenn Hughes on vocals at the same time. Interesting tradeoff thing they do here. You can QUITE CLEARLY see it was videotaped. This better get released somewhere. For one of Ronnie’s charities – all proceeds go there. Also, that’s not Vinny […]

Sabbath on the Biography Channel

If you get the Biography Channel here in the US, you’ll want to tune in this Thursday night the 15th. They’re running a couple of Biography episodes on both Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath. It does not appear they’re new (at least in the case of the Ozzy one), but if I get any info […]

Win a free copy of the new Paranoid DVD!

1970 was a prolific year for Black Sabbath. They put out not one, but two of what are considered founding slabs that the basis of all hard rock and heavy metal were founded on. A few months back was the 40th anniversary of “Black Sabbath”. This coming September is the 40th anniversary of the Paranoid […]

Winners of Ozzy’s Scream Contest!

Hey, Ozzy’s new album “Scream” is out today. I’ve also closed the contest where you could win a copy of it. Your copies are being sent from Sony records today if you were one of the winners, who were notified via email earlier this morning. The winners were: Marc Guerette – Quebec Canada Daniel Drago […]