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

But it wouldn’t sound nearly as menacing or as dark (or as awesome) if Black Sabbath didn’t set the template in the early ‘70s. Starting with their self-titled debut album in 1970 ...

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”.

Children of the Grave Formed in 1968, Jazz Sabbath ... a debut album from a band without its musical leader. When Milton was finally released from hospital in September 1970, he found out that a band ...

The newly moved Portland, OR based Seventh Rule Records has announced that they will be releasing the debut album from Brooklyn doomers Batillus. The New Yorker described the band as "a sludgy ...

As Anno Domini: 1989-1995 succeeds upon its arrival, the album that made the band famous is back. Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut also manages to return to a pair of lists, reaching a new peak ...

They are preserved perfectly in vinyl. The best Black Sabbath album of all time is their self-titled debut, ‘Black Sabbath’. This is because it marks the beginning of the heavy metal era ...

Black Sabbath are the undisputed godfathers of heavy metal. Beginning with their eponymous debut and seminal sophomore ... After a succession of influential albums, Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi ...