Today’s metal bands are a bunch of slackers, relatively speaking. You think releasing an album every three years is hard work? Imagine what it was like four decades ago, when heavy metal barely ...

Ozzy Osbourne is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer twice over — both for Black Sabbath and his solo career. But which is the better Ozzy-featuring album — Black Sabbath's Paranoid or Ozzy's No More Tears?

Black Sabbath’s Paranoid climbs to No. 2 on the U.K.'s Official Rock & Metal Albums chart, following Ozzy Osbourne’s death and a surge in fan consumption. Singer Ozzy Osbourne of the British heavy ...

On this day (October 10) in 1970, Black Sabbath was at No. 1 with their sophomore album Paranoid. Released just seven months after the band’s self-titled debut album, it contained some of their ...

With the music world centered on Ozzy and Black Sabbath‘s farewell concert this week, we decided to put the best albums from each part of Ozzy’s career against each other in the weekly Loudwire Nights ...

Black Sabbath’s Vol. 4 reenters the U.K. Rock and Metal Albums chart at No. 39, keeping the band’s catalog alive as other titles decline. UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 06: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Photo of ...

“War Pigs” is by far Black Sabbath’s most well-known song, and for good reason. It’s a surprisingly political track from a band not particularly known for its protest songs. “War Pigs” was originally ...

It is almost impossible to put into words how vitally important Ozzy Osbourne — who died today at 76 — and Black Sabbath, the band that he helped loft to fame, were to the history of heavy music. The ...