I don’t have time to write one of the giant 5,000 word essays at this time, but I didn’t want to let this anniversary pass. Today is the 25th anniversary of the Headless Cross album, originally released back in 1989. While technically the second Tony Martin era album, it felt like the “first” to me, […]
Some Thoughts on “Complete Albums” Box
April 19, 2014 by 23 Comments
Earlier this week, Rhino released a box set called “Black Sabbath: The Complete Albums 1970-1978” on CD. As I said earlier on this site, and on Twitter, this is effectively the audio from 2004’s “Black Box” just reprinted. After having it in my hands for a few days now, this is indeed what it […]
Cal Jam 1974 is 40!
April 5, 2014 by 28 Comments
Sunday April 6th is the 40th Anniversary of the famous Cal Jam Festival concert. One of the more known pieces of concert video, and was the period where Tony Iommi didn’t wear a mustache. :)
Video from NY show on Monday
April 2, 2014 by 26 Comments
Short and sweet, you don’t want to read my blathering. Here’s video of the whole concert (from multiple sources) from Monday night, which kicks off this current (final?) leg of the 13 Tour. Also, here is the setlist:
14 EP
March 31, 2014 by 27 Comments
Hot on the heels of the July 4th Hyde Park show comes this little tidbit I found in my inbox tonight. Cover art for something that should look awfully familiar to some people, who were excited about the new Black Sabbath studio release from last year. We’ve been hearing rumours of another new Sabbath […]
July 4 Concert Announced
March 30, 2014 by 5 Comments
The tour continues on. A date at Hyde Park in London on July 4th has been added. Normally this called “British Summer Time”, but it’s been amusingly renamed to “Black Sabbath Time”. A press release and video about the new gig are below. Tickets go on sale 9AM Wed Apr 2:
Complete Albums 1970-1978 Details
March 12, 2014 by 19 Comments
A few weeks ago, the original Mk I Black Sabbath output was finally made available on iTunes in the US/North America for the first time. The cover art with the set looked an awful lot like the Black Box set from 2004. Then last week, I found out about a “new” box set being […]
Black Sabbath Cake!
March 5, 2014 by 5 Comments
I’ve posted about cakes a few times in the past – I don’t know why I’m fascinated by them, but I got a pic of another Black Sabbath cake last week from a fan Maria Hernandez. When I asked her what the story behind the cake was, this is what she said..
Happy 20th, Cross Purposes!
January 31, 2014 by 55 Comments
Today is January 31, 2014. That means that 20 years ago, it was Jan 31, 1994. And on that date, came the penultimate studio Black Sabbath album in the Tony Martin era of the band, Cross Purposes! I’m not doing a full retrospective, because I’m a bit too busy to write about it on […]
Black Sabbath WINS Grammy!
January 26, 2014 by 18 Comments
Congrats to Black Sabbath for winning the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for “God is Dead?”.. Congrats to Best Metal Performance "God Is Dead?" Black Sabbath #GRAMMYs #PreTelecast— The GRAMMYs (@TheGRAMMYs) January 27, 2014 MORE GRAMMY COVERAGE That bit above was a quick post right after they won. There was a lot of other […]
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