Black Sabbath’s first album is effectively ground zero for heavy metal - and as guitarist Tony Iommi recalled, it was an ...

On this day 50 years ago, February 13, 1970, Black Sabbath released their self-titled debut album, forever altering the course of music history… nay, human history. Widely credited as the first heavy ...

Few songs evoke fear quite like "Black Sabbath," the first track from the ... but nothing was as blatant as the album's 13-minute spoken-word ritual, "Satanic Mass" – a track that left no ...