Some Black Sabbath albums are epoch-defining classics, some are average, some downright embarrassing, and we've ranked them – ...

However, Mikael Åkerfeldt, frontman of Swedish renowned prog metallers Opeth, isn't convinced that is really the case.

Black Sabbath are set to play their final ever show at Villa Park later this year, and fans are only just realising the true ...

It was in early 1969, after a change of name from The Polka Tulk Blues Band to Earth, that Iommi heard the first Led Zeppelin album and vowed to make music that was, in his words, “even heavier”.

Black Sabbath confronted Tony Iommi’s creative constipation by doing the same. And it worked! Immediately! Iommi wrote with the title track’s album-anchoring riff on the first day, and from ...