Black Sabbath’s First Album Best of All Time

Black Sabbath’s first album in 1970 has been named the Best British Rock Album of all time by Kerrang Magazine. Iron Maiden ranked second in the list with their 1982 album ‘Number of the Beast.’ The notorious Sex Pistols came in third place with their era-defining 1977 disc ‘Nevermind The Bollocks.’ Black Sabbath’s second album, […]

More Black Sabbath 2005 Dates

More Black Sabbath European dates have come to light. While none of these have still been officially confirmed to me by Black Sabbath’s management, I have no reason at this point to believe they’re false. Putting them together with the already known dates, that makes the 2005 tour itinerary this: Jun. 09 – Dortmund, GER […]

Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, & Anthrax on US Ozzfest 2005

A news story posted this afternoon over at blabbermouth says that Ozzfest 2005 will hit the US with Black Sabbath & Iron Maiden headlining. Along with that will be a “classic” version (read not the current version) of Anthrax. While it’s really cool we have Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden on Ozzfest, I’m a little […]

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Ozzy’s Prince of Darkness Update

This morning, I received word of some changes to the track listing for Ozzy’s forthcoming “Prince of Darkness” 4 CD set due on March 22nd. There’s been some tracks added, and a few removed. Here’s a summary of the changes as I noticed them: Originally, Disc 1 was to include the Randy Rhoads instrumental, but […]

More Black Sabbath 2005 European Tour Dates

This morning I was sent news that some more Black Sabbath European Tour Dates have come to light. These dates are: Jul. 03 – Stockholm, SWE @ Globen Jul. 07 – Oslo, NOR @ Oslo Spektrum That brings the dates I have to 6. It’s pretty spotty as we still don’t have a complete itinerary […]

Geezer Butler “Ohmwork” Update

Today, I picked up some information regarding the long awaited third solo album from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, “Ohmwork“. Ohmwork has a current release projection of April 2005 (the exact date is not set yet). The album will be released by Sanctuary. There’s no cover art available yet, but Geezer’s people tell me that […]

2005 Tour – Another Date Revealed

This morning brings the news that another date has been revealed on what is seeming to look like a full fledged European tour this summer by Black Sabbath. This date is June 18th in Nijmegen, Holland at the “Fields of Rock” Festival. No further dates are available at this time, but it now brings the […]

Glenn Hughes on new Iommi Album

I was just alerted to a new interview with Glenn Hughes over at classicrockrevisited.com. In this interview (conducted by Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot, of all people), Glenn had some major praise for the as of yet unnamed album by Tony, which has no release date yet. Check out these choice comments by Glenn.. Kevin: […]

Black Sabbath 2005 Tour Date Information

Well, given that the news is all over the place, and at this point, the cat is pretty much out of the bag, I’ve gone and set up my 2005 Tourdates page. There’s not a whole lot of dates there yet – in fact the only two are the already mentioned Roskilde date in Denmark, […]