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
February 8, 2005 by
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
February 1, 2005 by
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
January 31, 2005 by
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
January 29, 2005 by
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, […]
Bill Ward wants your questions!
January 28, 2005 by
As regular Bill Ward site visitors know, Bill has been doing a monthly radio programme over the Internet. Well, with 2005 being the 35th anniversary of Black Sabbath’s first album release, Bill wants to do something special with his programme. To this, he wants to collect your questions via email and will read and answer […]
2005 Tour Update
January 28, 2005 by
Well, it looks like Sabbath is gearing up for more touring in 2005. Aside from my story the other day, there was a second festival mentioned, as well as a tour of the US and Europe (link). It appears that Sabbath will be touring both Europe and the United States this summer. Whether this is […]
Black Sabbath & 2005 European Festivals
January 26, 2005 by
Overnight I got about 20-25 emails telling me about a news story on Blabbermouth saying Black Sabbath is “confirmed” to play Denmark’s Roskilde festival on June 30 to July 3 of this year. Additionally, there was a second article speculating that Sabbath also might play the UK Download festival. Whenever I get news like this […]
Listen to audio samples for new Dio Live CD
January 25, 2005 by
As reported on a week ago, the next Dio release will be a live CD. The recording was culled from the gig in New York in December of 2002. The band then included guitarist Doug Aldrich, who left after the tour to join Whitesnake. However, the gig is now being released as a live album […]
New Iommi Album Update
January 25, 2005 by
It appears that the new Tony Iommi / Glenn Hughes album is progressing faster than I had previously anticipated. The following update appeared over the weekend on Tony’s Website: Tony is making great progress with his new album which, as we reported previously, features Glenn Hughes (www.glennhughes.com) on vocals and Kenny Aronoff (www.kennyaronoff.com) on drums. […]
