For those of you waiting to check out the new Tony Martin / Dario Mollo album, "The Cage II", you don’t have to wait anymore. Available now are sound samples from each track on the album. Head on over to melodicrock, and check ’em out today! Dario has sent me a promo copy of the […]

A couple of years ago, the most excellent album "The Cage" by Dario Mollo & Tony Martin came out. Those who have heard it have had nothing but praise for it. Tony Martin had told me a few months ago that he had laid down tracks for a Cage II CD, so yesterday I inquired […]

The circle of Sabbath / Purple / Rainbow / Ozzy / etc band members grows closer yet again with the announcement that former Sabbath & Ozzy band member Don Airey has been named the new keyboardist for Deep Purple. He replaces Jon Lord, who has retired, presumably due to the fact that he’s getting on, […]

Some of you have mentioned the Sabbatum disc on the last issue or two of the newsletter. I haven’t covered it yet, because I was waiting on something to come in from the folks who made this disc. For those of you who haven’t checked it out, Sabbatum is a disc of Sabbath covers unlike […]

I’ve been informed by Dario Mollo that there has been a deal struck for the Tony Martin / Dario Mollo "Cage" project to have a new record deal. Here’s Dario’s email to me on the subject: From: "Dario Mollo" <Email withheld> Subject: Mollo-Martin news Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:10:57 +0200 Frontiers Records and Now […]

Zakk Wylde’s (former Ozzy guitarist) band, Black Label Soceity, has been moved from the second stage to the main stage on Ozzfest 2001. I felt he didn’t really deserve to be on the second stage anyway – not unless he was headlining.

Here’s some updates on various other members of Black Sabbath besides Tony Iommi. Bobby Rondinelli & Neil Murray: I recently heard from Bobby Rondinelli who told me that he has asked Neil Murray to participate on an upcoming solo album of his. No further word yet on that. Bill Ward: Bill is in the mixing […]

The follow-up to the 1994 tribute, Nativity in Black, entitled "Nativity in Black II" is now available. If you want to check out information on it, including the lineups, and whatnot, click on the banner shown here. This will take you to my NIB II page, and from there, you can order it. The CDNow […]

Back in 1994, there was a Black Sabbath Tribute album released entitled "Nativity in Black". Coming this summer is the sequel, oddly titled "Nativity in Black II". :) Anyway, I was contacted by someone from Priority Records, the folks who are putting out the album with some information about the album. The release date is […]

No release date yet for this thing, but I’m still guessing Spring 2000. However, I did turn up something that a lot of you are really going to be interested in. I’ve dug up what is supposed to be the artwork for the album. Remember how the first one had pictures in the liner notes […]