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Carmine Appice Says Heavy Metal Started With Metallica and Everything Earlier is “Hard Rock”
Apparently Black Sabbath weren't heavy metal.
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Tony Iommi Reacts to People Discovering Black Sabbath's Overlooked Eras, Reveals Why Band Wanted to Stop One Album's Release
'It was too late by the time we'd heard it.'
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Today In Metal History 🤘 April 25th, 2024 🤘 BLACK SABBATH, KROKUS, EXODUS, DIAMOND HEAD, MARILLION, BLUE MURDER
TALENT WE LOST R.I.P. Paul Baloff (EXODUS): 1960 2002 (aged 41) HEAVY BIRTHDAYS 64th Brian Tatler (DIAMOND HEAD) - 1960 51st Nicholas Barker - 1973 66th Derek "FISH" Dick (MARILLION) - 1958 69th David Sikes (GIUFFRIA) - April...
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OZZY OSBOURNE Determined To Visit The BLACK SABBATH Bench In Birmingham - "If I Have To Crawl I'm Going To Be There"; Video
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“We wore silly hats, but in those days, you did silly things”: Listen to the doo-wop bands Ronnie James Dio sang in before becoming a metal star with Black Sabbath and Rainbow
Before Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio, one of heavy metal’s most powerful voices sang in skiffle and doo-wop groups. This is what they sounded like…
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BLACK SABBATH's 'Paranoid' Surpasses One Billion Streams On SPOTIFY
BLACK SABBATH has joined Spotify's "Billions Club" with the band's classic song "Paranoid". Billions Club is a playlist first launched in 2020 which includes all of the songs on Spotify that have surpassed one billion streams on the platform. After the achievement, Spotify gifts artists the Billions...
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OZZY OSBOURNE Elaborates On Refusing KANYE WEST's Request To Use A BLACK SABBATH Sample
"It's wrong. It's just wrong."
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"Kayne West ASKED PERMISSION TO SAMPLE A SECTION OF A 1983 LIVE PERFORMANCE OF
"WAR PIG" FROM THE US FESTIVAL WITHOUT VOCALS & WAS REFUSED PERMISSION BECAUSE
HE IS AN ANTISEMITE AND HAS CAUSED UNTOLD HEARTACHE TO MANY. HE WENT AHEAD AND
USED THE SAMPLE ANYWAY AT HIS ALBUM LISTENING PARTY LAST NIGHT. I WANT NO
ASSOCIATION WITH THIS MAN!"
This week's #ThursdayFiveList is #TheSleep and the first three here all have the same title - the Static-X one is a GREAT cover of the Sabbath one. The Smithereens one is a different song (but still great, they were big Sabbath fans too - their song was definitely a nod):
#GreatAlbums1980s - #BlackSabbath – Heaven and Hell (1980). Sabbath's comeback in the early 80s steamrolled over those who'd written them off. Spitting the distance between the classic sound and brisker NWOBHM, Sabbath received a lifesaving blood infusion from Ronnie James Dio, the former Elf/ Rainbow singer. "Neon Knights" and "Children of the Sea" alone would make this LP worth owning, but six more tracks of equal fury make it one of the greatest metal albums of all time.