Black Sabbath’s first album is effectively ground zero for heavy metal - and as guitarist Tony Iommi recalled, it was an ...

Black Sabbath are one of the biggest heavy metal bands in the world, but even they have released some terrible music during their time.

In response, I brought out Black Sabbath’s first three albums this past week — Black Sabbath, Paranoid and Master of Reality — and enjoyed the hell out of hearing them again. Since “Master ...

Black Sabbath confronted Tony Iommi’s creative constipation by doing the same. And it worked! Immediately! Iommi wrote with the title track’s album-anchoring riff on the first day, and from ...

From the Uncut archive, the members of Black Sabbath reveal all about "Paranoid" - one of their defining tracks ...