The tritone has been blamed for chaos, banned by choirs, and embraced by metalheads. Here’s what the 'devil's interval' ...

When Ozzy Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, it threw the band’s future in doubt – but they returned with a new singer, Ronnie James Dio, and an album, Heaven and Hell, that ...

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Black Sabbath formed in 1968, when four lads from Birmingham— Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne, who ...

Bassist and primary Black Sabbath lyricist Geezer Butler, now 76, has kept away from the stage more so than other members of ...

And on April 25, 1980, Black Sabbath returned with their classic Heaven and Hell album. The initial plan was to work on a side project with Ronnie James Dio while Ozzy straightened out.

Ozzy Osbourne, the heavy metal legend who dominated rock for decades as a solo artist and member of Black Sabbath, has died ...

Dio would return a few more times over the following decades, first on Black Sabbath's 1992 album Dehumanizer and later as the rechristened Heaven and Hell, which formed in 2006.

Black Sabbath's riffs served as the main foundational aspect of their music—and of heavy metal music itself. ... “Heaven and Hell” (from Heaven and Hell, 1980) ...

"Actually, Rob kept wanting to do it — he wanted to do it." "Ronnie didn't wanna do those shows; he doesn't wanna go on before Ozzy, 'cause who knows what would happen," he said. "So he refused ...