All 9 Black Sabbath Albums With Ozzy Osbourne, Ranked

Ozzy Osbourne was the lead singer on nine Black Sabbath albums, including absolute classics like Paranoid, Master of Reality, ...
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“We Basically Needed a Three-Minute Filler for the Album”: How Black Sabbath Turned a Throwaway Song Into a Heavy Metal Classic

Black Sabbath released their self-titled debut album in February 1970, and it made waves in the rock and roll world. The title track, “N.I.B.,” “Behind the Wall of Sleep,” and other cuts from the ...
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Black Sabbath tops charts 43 years after first No. 1 album with '13'

The hit reached No. 1 in 2013, ending a 42-year wait since the band's previous chart-topping album and setting a remarkable ...
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Maynard James Keenan Says ‘The Reason I’m On a Stage at All Is Because of Black Sabbath’s First Album’

"I was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, hanging out with Wolfgang [Van Halen] and some of the guys, I think even Robert Trujillo," Keenan recalled to host Chuck Armstrong. "We were on the travel ...
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How a String of Bad Shows Helped Black Sabbath Create One of Heavy Metal’s Most Iconic Albums

A bad show—let alone a string of bad shows—can be soul-sucking blessings in disguise for a band, and that was certainly true of the run of stinkers Black Sabbath had in Europe that helped them create ...