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“The greatest heavy metal show ever!”: Ozzy Osbourne reunites Black Sabbath’s original line-up for a final show in Birmingham

Metallica and Pantera will also appear at the Villa Park event

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Black Sabbath to reunite to play final show at blockbuster Birmingham event this summer, with Metallica, Slayer, Gojira, Anthrax and many other metal icons supporting

Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza will take place at Villa Park on July 5

Metal Hammer

'The greatest metal show ever': Ozzy Osbourne to reunite with Black Sabbath for his final bow

Legendary rock artist lives up to his promise to play one final show

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Black Sabbath are back! Ozzy Osbourne to reunite with original line-up for his final show

The singer will play his own short set before the veteran heavy metal band play together for the first time in 20 years

Evening Standard

“It had a 13-minute spoken-word black mass on the B-side”: The mysterious late 60s album that Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt says invented Satanic rock

Six months before Black Sabbath released their landmark debut album, another band were praising Satan

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Ozzy Osbourne ‘shocked’ as Birmingham votes to honour Black Sabbath

‘Proud Brummie’ singer excited as city decides he and band members should be given Freedom of Birmingham

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Ozzy Osbourne 'couldn't be happier' after receiving Freedom of Birmingham

The members of Black Sabbath are set to receive the Freedom of Birmingham.

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“I’m still amazed to this day that no one outside of Birmingham can understand a word I say!” Founding Black Sabbath members to be awarded with Freedom Of The City honour by Birmingham City Council

The original lineup of Osbourne, Iommi, Butler and Ward will join just 50 others in being recognised as Freemen by the City Of Birmingham

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Council announces plans to honour Black Sabbath and Benjamin Zephaniah

A report recommends making each member of the rock band a Freeman of Birmingham, as well as giving a posthumous City of Birmingham Medal to the poet.

Evening Standard

“Iron Maiden’s tough, because it’s a very different vibe between Killers and Number Of The Beast”: Slayer’s Kerry King names his five perfect metal albums

Classics by Judas Priest, Metallica, Black Sabbath and more all make the cut

Metal Hammer

“When I joined, Ozzy told me I'd often hear people scream out Randy's name during a show”: Zakk Wylde discusses Ozzy Osbourne's hard-and-fast guitar rules, and the friendly shadows of Randy Rhoads and Jake E. Lee, in his first Guitar World interview

Not long into his dream gig, Wylde sat down with GW for a chat about his favorite guitarists of the era, and what Ozzy discouraged him from doing on the guitar

Guitar World

"I knew things weren’t going well musically": The story of the singer who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath in 1977 – and was then forgotten

The story of the short-lived union between Black Sabbath and a former singer of Fleetwood Mac

Louder

"Snoop Dogg said he’d had over a billion streams and made less than $43,000 – that should scare the **** out of everyone." Ice-T on Body Count, dream collabs and more

Ice-T reflects on the rage behind Cop Killer, the best rap and metal albums and dream collabs as he answers your questions

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Robbie Williams' new album features 'massive guitars' and 'pop hits'

Former Take That singer singer Robbie Williams has declared his new album will feature "massive guitars" and "pop hits" including a collaboration with Black Sabbath stars Tony Iommi and Glen Hughes.

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“We jammed with Zeppelin. John Bonham said, ‘Let’s play that song of yours I like.’ That was Supernaut”: Tony Iommi on the rivalry between Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin – and their lost jam session

Did the world miss out on a Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin supergroup?

Louder

“We were pot-smoking hippies and Rick Wakeman was a pub guy. The angle twisted and we went off in a new direction”: The epic story of Yes and the three albums that changed the course of music

Guitar World

Remembering the guitarists we lost in 2024

This year, we've sadly had to say goodbye to many guitar greats from across the world of music. Here, we recognize some of those guitarists, and their contributions to the instrument

Metal Hammer

“We had an exploding Marshall cabinet. The roadies put too much gasoline in it, and it almost blew Ritchie Blackmore offstage”: A metal fan’s guide to Deep Purple, one of hard rock’s original Holy Trinity

Along with Sabbath and Zeppelin, Deep Purple helped craft the primordial goop that spawned metal

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“Everybody clap your hands and boogie!”: Watch the young Ozzy Osbourne raising hell in newly unearthed Black Sabbath live footage from 1976

30 minutes of head-banging action to enjoy

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"I hope your journeys will be safe." Black Sabbath legend Bill Ward shares message for Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain following tour retirement

One legendary heavy metal drummer pays tribute to another

Guitar World

“Joe Perry was running close to 15 cabs on stage, and he ended up asking Tony to turn down. The amp was only on 4”: From Eddie Van Halen’s amps to the art of boosting, here are Tony Iommi’s tone secrets – from the man who knows them best

Producer Mike Exeter has worked with Iommi for over three decades, and knows exactly what the Godfather of Heavy Metal wants from his sound – and just how to get it

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Ozzy Osbourne 'dying to get out there and play'

Ozzy Osbourne is "dying to get out there and play" and wants to reunite with his Black Sabbath bandmates during one last spectacular show, according to Geezer Butler.

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Robbie Williams defends Oasis in dynamic pricing controversy

Robbie Williams felt sympathy for Oasis after the Britpop legends were criticised for using dynamic pricing on tickets for their reunion shows next year and thinks that it should serve as a lesson to the whole industry.

MusicRadar

“It was probably the best two weeks that I’d had for years!”: Geezer Butler on the time Black Sabbath sacked him for a fortnight

They’d forgotten that they'd fired him

Louder

Rush's Alex Lifeson has returned to the stage to play a Christmas-themed Black Sabbath cover with Barenaked Ladies

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