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  • Black Sabbath: The Vault by Paul Elliot

    Without Black Sabbath, I wouldn’t be writing this and you wouldn’t be reading this… it’s that simple. Published by Carltonbooks, (available to order here). “Written by a leading music journalist and illustrated throughout with rare and previously unpublished photographs, Black Sabbath: The Vault is the ultimate interactive celebration of the iconic rock group. Featuring 20…

  • Black Sabbath – 13

    By Bill Adams Some returns are highly anticipated, but then there was the wave of excitement which came with the announcement that a reformed Black Sabbath was entering the studio to record their first album of new material in thirty-five years. When the announcement came that Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler would enjoy…

  • Black Sabbath – Classic Albums: Paranoid

    … two days, cut live off the floor with a minimal number of overdubs and mixed in an additional two. It was a matter of in, down and done, and then Black Sabbath left it to be mixed and released while they went to play in Europe. It was only after Black Sabbath returned to…

  • Classic Albums Revisited: Black Sabbath’s Born Again

    By Sean Palmerston With the recent UK deluxe reissues of the mid-eighties Black Sabbath albums Seventh Star and The Eternal Idol creating quite a buzz about those releases once again I thought it might be time to revisit my favourite under-heralded Sabs relic. Born Again, the band’s 1983 release and only one to feature noted…

  • AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: BLACK SABBATH @ FirstOntario Centre, Hamilton, February 21, 2016

    … be the perfect coffee table accessory, if I actually had a coffee table. Oh, and we got to see the sound check, too. Wasn’t expecting much from the sound check—the drummer and (hidden) keyboardist went through the motions, and were joined by Tony and Geezer for an instrumental “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” before Ozzy sauntered…

  • Happy 40th birthday to… Black Sabbath‘s Volume 4

    By Sean Palmerston Today marks the 40th anniversary of the official release of what I consider to be one of the greatest albums ever made, Black Sabbath’s fourth studio album Volume 4. While many consider the two albums previous (Paranoid and Master of Reality) to be the band’s high point, the progressiveness of Volume 4…

  • Soooo, where do I buy my Black Sabbath tickets next weekend?

    Black Sabbath has yet to announce any North American tour dates, but when Universal Music Canada unwittingly leaked that they’d be playing Toronto, oh, about a month ago, we were alerted to the fact that they’re supposed to be coming to town August 14th.  What Universal doesn’t say is when tickets go on sale, although…

  • The Mezmerist – The Innocent, The Forsaken, The Guilty

    By Gruesome Greg Black Sabbath’s 13 might not have Bill Ward on drums, but this album does. Well, the first four songs of it, anyways. Seems that Bill Sabbath was slumming around back in ’83 when he hooked up with some cat named Mezmercardo for some session work, and the rest was buried in history……

  • I’ve got these two Troubles troublin’ me…

    If Black Sabbath are the grandfathers of doom, Trouble would be one of its uncles (along with Candlemass, Saint Vitus and Witchfinder General).  But while grandpa’s mad ravings have been grabbing headlines lately, what with the whole Bill Ward fiasco, Uncle Trouble has been through quite the shakeup himself.  In fact, it seems that there’s…

  • Just a few more sleeps to the Sabbath gig…

    To date, I have never seen Black Sabbath live–Heaven and Hell notwithstanding.  Hey, I grew up in the barren plains of Calgary back when that description was at least somewhat accurate, and considering that they haven’t really done anything since the late 90’s, well, there ya go.  Of course, I know that their bassist isn’t…