Today’s metal bands are a bunch of slackers, relatively speaking. You think releasing an album every three years is hard work? Imagine what it was like four decades ago, when heavy metal barely ...

Here's a tough one for you. Which is the better Black Sabbath album - Paranoid or Master of Reality? That's the battle at the center of our first Chuck's Fight Club matchup for the Loudwire Nights ...

Ozzy Osbourne is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer twice over — both for Black Sabbath and his solo career. But which is the better Ozzy-featuring album — Black Sabbath's Paranoid or Ozzy's No More Tears?

Bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward were all between the ages of 18 and 20 when they began playing together in Birmingham. Naming ...

On this day (October 10) in 1970, Black Sabbath was at No. 1 with their sophomore album Paranoid. Released just seven months after the band’s self-titled debut album, it contained some of their ...

A bad show—let alone a string of bad shows—can be soul-sucking blessings in disguise for a band, and that was certainly true of the run of stinkers Black Sabbath had in Europe that helped them create ...

Four Black Sabbath albums chart in the U.K., and three return to at least one list as fans continue to mourn Ozzy Osbourne's death this summer. WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - NOVEMBER 11: (L-R) Musicians Bill ...

Me and my high school friends, when we got tired of bemoaning Chicago’s crappy sports teams and our lack of success with girls, would often pass the time by debating which rock bands were “metal.” ...

Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling ...