Formed in Birmingham, England in 1968, Black Sabbath was one of the most important influences on hard rock and grunge music. While the term "heavy metal" was taken from a Steppenwolf lyric and had already been applied to bands such as...

Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham. The original band line up of Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Terence "Geezer" Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums) is the same as the current line up (2008) although there have...

BRIAN ABERBACK, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-19-1998 NO SABBATICAL FOR BLACK SABBATH By BRIAN ABERBACK, Staff Writer Date: 10-19-1998, Monday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star Black Sabbath was ahead...

What we have here are two building blocks of heavy metal and of any future heavy metal museum. "Black Box" is an eight-CD, one-DVD box featuring Black Sabbath's essential early recordings. Judas Priest's "Metalogy" is a four-CD, one-DVD career retrospective. In other words, the...

Today is Saturday, May 5, the 125th day of 2007. There are 240 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in a capsule launched...

Today is Monday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2007. There are 315 days left in the year. This is Presidents' Day.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 19, 1945, during World War II, some 30,000 U.S. Marines began landing on Iwo Jima, where they commenced a...