BlackSabbath

Black Sabbath have dropped the new single "God Is Dead?" from their upcoming album 13, which is out June 11 and is the band's first album in 35 years. It sounds like the slow, deep and hard Sabbath of old, launched by a heavier-than-granite Tony Iommi riff that crawls through the intro before Ozzy Osbourne checks in with his signature nasally vocal...

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi opened up about his ongoing cancer treatment, revealing that there is a 1 in 3 chance that the disease could return. He was incredibly candid about how he is handling it and what is body is going through while he battles it ...

And you thought Apocalyptica was the only band that could interpret metal via an entirely different genre's lens! You haven't met Metalachi -- the world's first and only metal mariachi band. Metalachi are brothers from the same mother, but with different fathers, since they admit their mother was promiscuous, yet they love her anyway...

Recently, my wife directed MELLODRAMA: The Mellotron Story, a documentary about a California inventor who unveiled an organ in 1956 that could replay the sounds of other instruments using magnetic tape. His idea was lifted by an employee and sold abroad, and soon the Mellotron caught fire and became a rock music staple, championed by everyone from the Beatles (on "Strawberry Fields Forever&qu

We all know that 13 is a lucky number for many people and that numerology often factors into hard rock albums, so it's no shock that both Black Sabbath and Suicidal Tendencies would name their upcoming, 2013-released albums 13. Sabbath's new album 13 is their nineteenth overall, while ST are releasing their first album in 13 years ...

Video footage from the recording sessions to Black Sabbath's upcoming comeback album has just been released by the band. 13 is being primarily tracked in Los Angeles by producer Rick Rubin (Slayer, Danzig) and will hit stores later in 2013 via the Vertigo label...

They're back! Black Sabbath confirmed today (Jan. 13) that they're reuniting with a new album and are embarking on tour this year. The album is, 13, will hit stores in June. Their tour will kick off in Auckland, New Zealand on April 20...

Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin barely has time to rest at home on the Florida coast these days. With the big UPROAR Tour starting in just a couple of weeks, he's getting in some rehearsal time with 'Smack guitarist Tony Rombola, who also lives in the Sunshine State, but before that trek, he's doing a South American run with his other band, Ugly Kid Joe...

Heavy metal by its nature is defiant and rebellious, a threat to law and order. Black Sabbath's early records were loaded with protest songs about war, drugs, and ecology. Even the ancient and Biblical blood raining from the lacerated skies above Slayer has a radical effect; and no matter what Lemmy sings about Motörhead is a three-man social revolution in motion. Th...

Once upon a time, there were masked men in capes battling injustice across the land -and they called themselves heavy metal musicians. Though metal and its equally misunderstood mistress of the printed page, comic books, both grapple with similar themes of vengeance, honor, and evil, the two cross paths less often than you'd think...