It was in early 1969, after a change of name from The Polka Tulk Blues Band to Earth, that Iommi heard the first Led Zeppelin album and vowed to make music that was, in his words, “even heavier”.

Black Sabbath have gone through ... one song from every other one of their albums with Osbourne that was never performed. Scroll through the album covers below, the songs that were never played ...

Was there ever a point in Black Sabbath where Tony Iommi wasn’t at 100% capacity? There might have been a handful of songs throughout their history that didn’t hit the mark, but even on the albums ...

That ride continued just three years later when he launched the Retirement Sucks Tour, but the remnants of Black Sabbath were busy making a horrid album with ... also hold the rare distinction ...

Bloom is a family affair that takes Megan and Rebecca Lovell’s spark from stage to the studio, with guitars plugged straight ...

Frontman Tom Templar invites us into his world, and shares the key ingredients that make Green Lung one of the most magical ...

Van Morrison has announced “a rare run of UK live performances”. Morrison is set to play a handful of intimate concerts at “specially selected” venues, kicking off at the Royal Concert Hall in ...

Some Black Sabbath albums are epoch-defining classics, some are average, some downright embarrassing, and we've ranked them – ...

From No. 19 all the way to No. 1, see how we ranked every album by Black Sabbath. Known the world over as the founders of heavy metal, the band's reach and influence is immeasurable. Their legacy?

However, Mikael Åkerfeldt, frontman of Swedish renowned prog metallers Opeth, isn't convinced that is really the case.