Replacing Dave Mustaine as Metallica’s lead guitarist in 1983, Kirk Hammett cut his teeth on Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. So it’s unsurprising that he lists Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys and Zeppelin’s ...

He has an idea for how it could work. Ozzy Osbourne has made it pretty clear that the upcoming Back to the Beginning concert with Black Sabbath will be his final live show of his career. But one of ...

You can’t follow music news without being aware of the smashing success of Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning farewell concert last weekend. Not only did Ozzy and the band deliver a memorable, ...

Myles Kennedy has served up a cover of Black Sabbath's "The Mob Rules" in a way you've certainly never heard it before, unless you, too, have played a version of the iconic Ronnie James Dio-fronted ...

Black Sabbath's "Sabbra Cadabra" is still celebrated 53 years later as one of the standout songs from a legendary album.

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Black Sabbath's initial aim was to include a saxophone player and a slide guitar player in their lineup, making the outfit a six-piece band, as lead guitarist Tony Iommi recalled on a new episode of ...

Metallica's Kirk Hammett, Cheap Trick and Pat Benatar are among the artists contributing stage-played and hand-signed instruments to a massive new charity auction. Julien's Auctions' "Played, Worn & ...

It’s important to give back. Now that I’ve gotten that very obvious statement out of the way, let’s get to who’s doing the giving this time—Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi. As reported by BBC News, ...

Tony Iommi is the undisputed champion of the heavy metal riff. He earned that title in the early ’70s, as his memorable guitar riffs — short, repeated chord progressions that help form the rhythmic ...

Tony Iommi, the Black Sabbath guitar wizard who pretty much invented heavy metal riffage, does not really seem like a ballet guy. But Iommi is 75 years old, and when one of his hometown institutions ...