In Milwaukee, the 1980 "Black and Blue" tour lived up to its billing. The Oct. 9, 1980, concert by heavy-metal legends Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult ended with one injured musician, about 9,000 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Black Sabbath retired following an extensive farewell tour from 2016 to 2017. The shows featured ...

Black Sabbath's reunion for one final performance at the 2025 Back to the Beginning concert is the most important reunion of their career. Here's why. This is about more than just what happens onstage ...

Although he covered an Ozzy Osbourne hit, there's a Black Sabbath deep cut that Ghost frontman Tobias Forge initially wanted to sing at the band's farewell concert over the weekend. Forge was one of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Black Sabbath’s Paranoid climbs to No. 9 on Billboard's Vinyl ...

Bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward were all between the ages of 18 and 20 when they began playing together in Birmingham. Naming ...

The four original members of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath will perform one last time together on Saturday, back in the city where they grew up: Birmingham, England. Often, when an old ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Black Sabbath may be heading toward the end of its career, but fans ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...