The Black Sabbath frontman personified metal as a raving, hell-bound lunatic, fully devoted to the nightmarish conceit. He ...

It’s going to be kind of catching the beginning of something fresh,” Villarreal tells the Scene ahead of his show Friday at The Blue Room at Third Man Records. “I usually tour with a five-piece band.

Black Sabbath formed in 1968, when four lads from Birmingham— Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away on July 22, 2025, at age 76 —came together to change music forever ...

On July 15, 1981, the group played Kerrisdale Arena in Vancouver with opening act Motörhead at a show this then-teenaged critic recalls as sounding more like chainsaws on sheet metal than music.

A true musical icon, Ozzy Osbourne was one of the architects of our world, the self-styled Prince Of Darkness who brought joy ...

With tears in his makeup-shadowed eyes, Osbourne, the ailing and retiring frontman for Black Sabbath, raged against the ...

This past June, at the big Boonerang music festival, Kat Chaffin’s Leopard Lounge band were in the midst of playing their ...

The frontman, who with Black Sabbath helped pioneer heavy metal in 1970s England, always found new ways to reinvent himself.

When the Grateful Dead stepped away from touring in 1974 following their farewell shows at Winterland, there was no telling ...

Bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward were all between the ...

"People know that I take it seriously, and that I’m not just some actor who strums a few tunes so I can call myself a bass player." ...

Ozzy Osbourne has died 'surrounded by love' at the age of 76, a statement from his family said. The Black Sabbath frontman ...