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Welcome to the New Site!
Welcome to the new version of the Black Sabbath Online website. This has been a long time coming. For a couple of reasons. The old site has been here a long time. It's served me and the community well, but it was launched in January of 2000, and given this is January 2012, TWELVE years later, it has been overdue for a fresh coat of paint. There's also a few parts of the old site which are just broken, and needed replacing. It was definitely TIME. To those who said "What's wrong … [Read More...]
About Henry
If you're a Black Sabbath fan, especially a long time one, you've seen Henry a bunch of times. Thing is, most people didn't know he's called Henry. He's something akin to Iron Maiden's "Eddie", although Henry has never come out on stage live. :) Henry is of course the "flying devil" or "flying angel" or whatever you want to refer to it. It's a logo that's been in use for a long time, and that was a point of contention with me. WHEN was the first time we saw Henry? The earliest I … [Read More...]
Before There was Elf…
Those of you who have been following this site for awhile know of my affinity for trying to present the entire story, not just bits and pieces, or just selected parts. Well, that's why this piece is of particular interest to me. I've been following Ronnie James Dio's career for a long time. First hopped on board in 1981, and followed his work until he died in 2010. Pretty much everyone knows about his Rainbow & Black Sabbath careers. Some know about his Elf material before Rainbow, … [Read More...]
Black Sabbath Reunites!
Mk I is back. Again. There you go. All apologies to Kiss... You wanted it. You got it. The best band in the world... At a press conference in Los Angeles this morning at 11:11AM on 11/11/11, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, & Ozzy Osbourne appeared to announce that Black Sabbath Mk I is back together again and will be releasing their first new full album of material since 1978's "Never Say Die!". Granted, the last official full album by "Black Sabbath" was 1995's … [Read More...]
Armenian Charity Music Information
Pre-Order Links: [ UK CD | UK MP3 | US Not yet available ] Some months ago there was news that Tony Iommi & Ian Gillan were writing new music, the first new music the two of them have done since 1983 and the Born Again album. Tony & Ian did work together about five years ago on Ian's then solo album, "Gillan's Inn". If you never checked that out, you should. It has a new recording of Trashed on it. But that's the past. This is new. The project has a name, and it's called "WhoCares". … [Read More...]
What the hell happened to Technical Ecstasy?
As most of you know, I've done several articles based on individual Black Sabbath albums. I recently ran across an article done by Dan Marsicano on the 1976 release, "Technical Ecstasy". It's an often overlooked album, so I wrote Dan, and received permission to replicate his article here. Check it out: Welcome, all my followers, to the 16th edition of What The Hell Happened To. Yep, I'm still keeping count. Not only am I keeping count of the editions, but I'm also counting down the days … [Read More...]
Black Sabbath / Depeche Mode Connection?
This past week, I got an email asking me something I had never seen before. It was in relation to the Born Again cover art. They had asked me if I knew anything, because the cover art for Black Sabbath's Born Again and the Depeche mode single "New Life". Let's get right to the pictures - here they are side by side.. They look amazingly similar, don't they? Born Again was released in the summer of 1983. The New Life CD single by Depeche Mode was released at some point in 1981. I contacted the … [Read More...]
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