Black Sabbath

Last weekend, May 19, 2012, Black Sabbath finally played their homecoming show in Birmingham, England. As well as playing to a home crowd, it was also a warm-up to their major Download festival headline appearance in the Summer. The full gig from Saturday night at the Birmingham O2 Academy is streaming online in full and you can listen to it right here below (via Bravewords). Back in November, plans for a Black Sabbath reunion was announced, but recently news broke that original drummer...Read Full Story

19th May - O2 Academy, BirminghamReview by Nick AddisonGiven the overwhelming demand for tickets, I was actually slightly shocked to successfully bag a pair in the Sabbath mailing list pre-sale just two short weeks before the show. I was really going to get to see the original (well 3/4 of it) Black Sabbath line-up playing a club gig in their home town!I had never seen any of the previous incarnations of the band live, or even Ozzy doing his solo stuff, so I was really looking forward to this...Read Full Story

Since Black Sabbath announced a reunion tour and album in the fall, Bill Ward appeared to have been on the fence, with a contract being the obstacle to commitment. This week, however, Ward announced through his website that he will not be joining the other three original members for the Birmingham, Download Festival, and Lollapalooza performances. In his statement, Ward delineates all contract conflicts up until this point. First, he explains, he was asked to participate “minimally” at the...Read Full Story

Here’s some multi-camera fan-filmed video footage of the entire performance by Original BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi, singer Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler playing an intimate show at the 3,800-person O2 Academy in SABBATH‘s hometown of Birmingham, England: DVD 1 DVD 2Read Full Story

GV newswire re-blog’d the suite first listen new & active album reviews IN VIDEO bonus beats IN PHOTO ← Previous Post Next Post → Groovevolt.com May 16, 2012 Newswire Two and done for Jennifer Lopez at American Idol? During an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres‘s television show, Ellen, Tuesday (May 15), Lopez said that her return for a third season of Idol is not guaranteed. “I really do enjoy it,” she said. “Now this is my second year — I don’t know if I can go for a third year...Read Full Story

Three-quarters of the original Black Sabbath (or, as their photos might lead you to believe, the band's only three members) reunited for the first time in seven years Saturday night at a lengthy "homecoming" show at the O2 Academy in Birmingham... | spin.comRead Full Story

BLACK SABBATH star TONY IOMMI was wracked with nerves before the band's comeback gig on Saturday night (19May12) amid fears he would not make it through the long set.Read Full Story

Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath, released through Sanctuary on the 4th June 2012, is a 14 track collection of classic tracks from across Black Sabbath's first eight albums including tracks from 1970's debut Black Sabbath and follow up Paranoid, 1971's Master Of Reality, 1972's Volume 4, 1973's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and 1978's Never Say Die. The album brings some of the best loved and most influential rock songs of all time together on one album including such classics as Paranoid, Iron...Read Full Story

Black Sabbath To Unveil New ‘Greatest Hits’ Album ‘Iron Man’ Black Sabbath have apparently unveiled the details of a repackaged best-of compilation. The band last season told- they were regrouping as the original line-up of Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Ward, and had begun work on their first album together since 1979. Now, The single-disc Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath is released on June 4 ahead of the band’s live summer tour dates. Marking an identical track...Read Full Story

On Tuesday, original Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward announced that he would be stepping away from all of the band's scheduled reunion tour dates as a result of hiccups he encountered getting "a signable contract" — he says some of the ridiculous terms included playing for free at their intimate homecoming show in London this weekend... | spin.comRead Full Story