Ozzy Osbourne – lead vocals, harmonica (1968–1979, 1997–present) Tony Iommi – lead guitar, keyboards, flute (1968–present) The early/mid 1980s line-up featuring Iommi, Butler, Dio, and Appice reformed in 2006 under the title, Heaven & Hell, until Dio's death on May 16, 2010. The original lineup reunited with Osbourne in 1997 and released a live album, Reunion. In 1992, Iommi and Butler rejoined Dio and drummer Vinny Appice to record Dehumanizer. After a few albums with Dio's vocals and his songwriting collaborations, Black Sabbath endured a revolving lineup in the 1980s and 1990s that included vocalists Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen and Tony Martin. He was replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne's drinking led to his firing from the band in 1979. Rolling Stone has posited the band as 'the heavy-metal kings of the '70s'. They have sold over 15 million records in the United States alone. They were ranked by MTV as the "Greatest Metal Band" of all time, and placed second in VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" list, behind Led Zeppelin. Despite an association with occult and horror themes, Black Sabbath also composed songs dealing with social and political issues such as drugs and war.Īs one of the first and most influential heavy metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath helped define the genre with releases such as quadruple-platinum Paranoid, released in 1970. Originally formed as a heavy blues-rock band named Earth, the band began incorporating occult- and horror-inspired lyrics with tuned-down guitars, changing their name to Black Sabbath and achieving multiple platinum records in the 1970s. A total of twenty-two musicians have at one time been members of Black Sabbath. The band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. Black Sabbath īlack Sabbath are an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (lead vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (electric bass), and Bill Ward (drums). Meanwhile, Osbourne's recording career has been revitalized in recent years, thanks to producer Andrew Watt, who also co-wrote Ozzy's latest solo records, Ordinary Man (2020) and the newly released, widely successful Patient Number 9.Black Sabbath He played us our very first album, and he said, 'Cast your mind back to then when there was no such thing as heavy metal or anything like that, and pretend it's the follow-up album to that,' which is a ridiculous thing to think." It was a weird experience, especially with being told to forget that you're a heavy metal band. 4 onwards."Įarlier this year, Geezer Butler also griped about Rubin's methods as a producer, telling Sirius XM's Eddie Trunk, ""Some of it I liked, some of it I didn't like particularly. We’d gone right back past the point where we took charge, back to when someone else had full control of our recording. But I’ll say, wasn’t recorded the way Black Sabbath recorded records. I’m not saying that one day we might not all go in a room and come up with the perfect Black Sabbath album. The only thing I really regret, to be honest, is that Bill Ward didn’t play on the album. It wasn’t an earth-shattering experience for me," he continues.Īnd as for Sabbath's future, if there even is one, Osbourne states, "I would like to say it’s completely done. Though Geezer did a lot of lyric writing for me, which he’s very, very good at. It was like stepping back in time, but it wasn’t a glorious period. "Although Rick Rubin is a good friend of mine, I wasn’t really… I was just singing. When asked if he feels good about where 13 left things, the Prince of Darkness confesses, "Not really, because to be perfectly honest, I didn’t really get a charge from the album." Ward's absence, as Osbourne tells Stereogum, was just one of a couple sore points regarding 13.
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