Jazz Sabbath‘s first official live album ‘Jazz Sabbath Live‘ will be released on 20 February. The trio, helmed by longtime Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne keys and guitar player Adam Wakeman, present 11 exploratory jazz arrangements based on Black Sabbath tracks from the period 1970-1973. The album was recorded 25 shows into their 2025 tour at the […]
Dave Walker Appearance Surfaces
November 28, 2025 by
Over Thanksgiving, something that has been talked about for ages finally cropped up. Those who follow my site know that I care about the full history of the band, not just the Ozzy bits from the 70’s. Anyway, from that era, it’s known that Oz left Sabbath after the Technical Ecstasy tour to try and […]
Volume 4 Documentary
May 1, 2025 by
BLACK SABBATH VOL. 4 DOCUMENTARY This fan made documentary is now streaming free on YouTube This is six months of obsessive, archival-deep research crammed into 75 minutes. A new feature-length documentary has dropped on YouTube that digs deep into the creation, chaos, and cultural impact of Black Sabbath’s 1972 masterpiece, Vol. 4 — the album […]
Eternal Idol 2025 Re-Release
February 7, 2025 by
This morning, it was announced on Tony Iommi’s social media that The Eternal Idol will get a Record Store Day 2025 re-release. It was a short announcement that had a clip from the Shining music video, so there’s no formal press release on the thing. I did however look into a few things, and came […]
“The End” Indeed
February 5, 2025 by
It was announced today that that Black Sabbath Mk I will reunite for one final show in 2025. That’s Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, & Bill. Yeah, Bill Ward. It’s a single concert – 5 Jul in Villa Park (#UpTheVilla), and Sabbath will be the headliner on a day of concerts, which will also include a solo […]
Snowblind in East Ham
November 10, 2024 by
A new A4 sized glossy book, 160+ pages, authored by former Black Sabbath Appreciation Society founder Pete Sarfas. This timely new book is crammed with hundreds of colour photographs many of which come from the BSAS archives and include an abundance of behind the scenes shots. The focal point of the new book is the […]
Jazz Sabbath III
September 23, 2024 by
I’ve been send some details of a third album from the “Jazz Sabbath” band entitled “Jazz Sabbath: the 1968 tapes”. It’s due for release on 29 of November. The first two albums were a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to hear the third one. I haven’t heard a pre-release copy, but when I […]
Live Evil Atmos Blu-Ray
September 7, 2024 by
Back on 30 August, a friend of mine sent me a link to something in the Rhino webstore saying it was Live Evil on Blu_Ray, and asked if I knew anything about it. I didn’t – it was the first time I heard about it. I reached out to my rep at Rhino (twice), and […]
Anno Domini 1989 – 1995 Review
May 22, 2024 by
The time has finally come. After all this time (we’ve been waiting since 2009-ish), the Tony Martin era IRS albums are back in print! On 31 May, this is released to the world! Up until today (22 May) I’ve been under an embargo not talk about it, but this morning that was lifted, so here […]
Anno Domini 1989 – 1995
March 22, 2024 by
This is it! The moment we’ve been waiting for since 2009. The famed Tony Martin box set has been announced. Entitled “Anno Domini 1989 – 1995”, it encompasses the studio output of the Tony Martin I.R.S. era. Eternal Idol is not in this set, as it’s on another label (Warner/Rhino in US, Vertigo elsewhere). A […]
