Articles related to "Black Sabbath"

Black Sabbath changed rock music forever by blending macabre lyrics and dark, minor key chords to invent what is now referred to as Heavy Metal.

1972 Release is of comparable quality with anything recorded by contemporaries such as Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple

The ninth day of Christmas, according to the song, has someone sending a gift of nine drummers drumming. Why not host a meal or party based on drums and drummer boys?

In a collection of brief interviews, metal stars including Judas Priest's Rob Halford, Deicide's Steve Asheim & High On Fire's Matt Pike pick their essential metal albums

Analysis of the Planet Rock radio station listeners' top forty albums shows that 1970s albums dominated the chart because of musicians like Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.

With a dark, atmospheric ode to the apocalypse, Three tip their hats to 70's rock giants like Rush, Yes, and Genesis, while maintaining a style all their own.

A legendary album from one of the forebears of British Prog Rock

Fuzz rumbles full stacks of amplifiers as doom metal shakes the musical earth to simple, loud volumes, creating music that stretches in distance instead of time.

Nearly twenty years ago, new sounds began to rumble form the amps of metal musicians. At the turn of the millennium, the post-metal have been nothing short of brilliant.

This article provides not only the top forty list as chosen by Planet Rock listeners, but also exclusive analysis of which bands were most successful over the whole list.

A lost gem from the 70's British rock scene, Sweet Slag explored the darker side of mans soul in their one and only release

We all like our metal to be over the top and in your face as metal is an expression, a cathartic release and the larger the statement the greater the satisfaction.

With the turn of the millennium came an even slower, groovier brand of doom metal whose sound rolls through speakers like a slow motion lava-flow.

While cruising around in the summer to classic rock radio is both familiar and fun, hearing the same songs repeatedly can become tiresome.

My Chemical Romance (MCR) Released their Third Album Last Year. A Homage to The Doors' 'The Soft Parade'? Or Does it Herald the Start of a New Era of Concept Albums?

Nearly 25 years after the release of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality album, bands began catching on to the heavy grooves and simple rocking.

After a small decline in the stoner rock stock, a new batch of rockers return to the riff-filled land. With bands building upon all the past, it thrives again.

Horror as a film genre offers some of the more memorable imagery in all of film and other media. Here's some of the scariest scenes from some of the best horror films.

What began as four men building guitar pickups in the United Kingdom would go on to create unique electric guitars for musicians such as Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath.

Kiss and Ozzy Osbourne headline the ROCK2WGTN metal festival at the Westpac Stadium. Alice Cooper, Whitesnake, Poison, and Lordi also confirmed for New Zealand festival.

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, backed up by The Frames, entertained with ballads, funny stories and some surprises in their Columbus, Ohio debut.

The British hard rock band, Deep Purple, is often also considered one of the founding bands of Heavy Metal. Their story is long and interesting.

Country-Fried Metal Mongers find gold in them there hills.

Football players weren't the only ones banging heads on Superbowl Sunday; Metallica fans filed into the Prudential Center in droves on February 1st, 2009.

Pop music never sounded so good with producer Linda Perry quietly working in the background to make today's pop vocalists sound not just good, but great.

Metallica have announced their first full UK tour in more than ten years, with Machine Head and The Sword as support.

Big Robbo's Mama's Fallen Angels has over 21,000 members and new debates on heavy metal music emerge every day. Users say they love MFA for its warm and relaxed attitude

In August 2009 over 12,000 Planet Rock fans voted for their favourite album of all time. This article compares their rating with a generic best ever album chart.

The most metal show on television is Cartoon Network's "Metalocalypse." The aptly-named 'toon follows the misadventures of Dethklok, a five-member death metal band.

The band Led Zeppelin, one of the most recognizable names in rock music, was the brainchild of guitarist Jimmy Page. The group formed in 1968.

Vegetarianism as a diet has been around for a long time, and many people you may have heard of are vegetarians or vegans. Here's a list of some of the more famous ones.

The Osbourne family join youngest son Jack on some of his latest Adrenaline Junkie adventures. Contains minor injury and strong language from the start.

Jessica Simpson, Kelly Osbourne and Peter Andre have all done it - subjected their lives to the unflinching lens of reality TV cameras, and reaped musical success.

These 1960's and 1970's legends of rock are on the road again winning a new generation of fans and filling concert arenas around the nation.

Although some geeks may complain about yet another origin story, director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey Jr. kick-off a new franchise with wit, intelligence and style

During the late 1970s and early 1980s in Brisbane, Australia, The Bent Elbows performed in and around the city, playing their version of "pub rock".

The House of the Rising Sun is a legendary song by the British rock band, The Animals. It can be considered as a perfect rock song, which was ahead of its time.

Today's music lacks the quality and excellence of that of the past, leaving listeners hungry for a return to rock's glory days.

The boys from Truth About Seafood are back, and they're ready to rock. Check out what's new with the band in this exclusive interview.

After an 11 year absence, quintessential alternative rockers Faith No More are set to take the stage once again in one of the UK's leading heavy metal festivals.

A short history of how some well known Bands arrived at their choice of name.

Guitar Hero is a new phenomenon in the rhythm genre. But what is it that makes it so great?

When Pillar first broke into the national eye, they earned the label "rapcore", but their melodic vocals kept the label from sticking.

Deep Purple, pioneer of hard rock, have 18 albums released in five decades by 14 members through eight lineups.

Steve Harris, the founder and frontman of Iron Maiden, has kept the band creative in the course of several member changes.

In Part #3 of this exclusive interview, Canadian thrash-metal pioneers Anvil talk about being independent musicians and why their next CD will revolutionize metal.

From Puffy Combs to the Lilith Fair, these enemies of good music have somehow taken over the industry.

Though H.P. Lovecraft lived in relative poverty and obscurity, his work has become one of the major foundations of present-day speculative fiction.