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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. While there’s not much debate regarding which lineup of Black ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Black Sabbath is dead, and Black Sabbath will never die. Both of these things are true. More than 50 years ago, the Birmingham, England-founded quartet pioneered heavy metal music with songs like “War ...

Here are the five heaviest Black Sabbath songs... without Ozzy Osbourne! This is not meant to diminish the Prince of Darkness, merely a means to break from the usual fanfare of those first six ...

Black Sabbath's album Seventh Star — which also names Tony Iommi separately — debuts inside the top 10 on one chart in the U.K.

“War Pigs” is by far Black Sabbath’s most well-known song, and for good reason. It’s a surprisingly political track from a band not particularly known for its protest songs. “War Pigs” was originally ...

“Black Sabbath” was written by all four Black Sabbath bandmates, but it was inspired when they were known by the name Earth. Butler, the band’s bass player, told Rolling Stone that he had a nightmare ...

We can argue all day long about who invented heavy metal. But there’s no denying that Black Sabbath largely shaped the genre. Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne banded together to ...

Here are the five best prog metal covers of Black Sabbath songs! As the inventors of heavy metal – according to most genre fans and journalists, at least – Black Sabbath directly or indirectly ...

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi revealed the band had set aside “six or seven” songs for their Back to the Beginning reunion performance, naming two others they had rehearsed but didn’t play. The ...

Guitar legend Tony Iommi revealed he was prepared to play a few more Black Sabbath songs at the Back to the Beginning farewell show, but Ozzy Osbourne made the final call. “We worked out what we were ...