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"My organs began to shut down. I was travelling in the astral world. It was magic": Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss on the dark side of Rick Rubin, the bright side of Ginger Baker, and surviving the music industry

Chris Goss lit the fuse on the 90s stoner revolution, but his band Masters Of Reality remain a cult act despite their enormous influence

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"Tony Iommi should have dropped the name and called the band something else": Black Sabbath's least-loved album re-examined, four decades on

What happened when Tony Iommi brought two familiar faces back on board for Forbidden, an album produced by an extremely unexpected choice

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“Nothing’s worse than hearing someone say, ‘Deep Purple? They’re just like Black Sabbath, knocking out riffs’”: the birth of Deep Purple Mk II and the transformation that changed rock

How Deep Purple went from one-hit-wonders to become one of the greatest rock bands in history

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Tony Iommi remembers co-writing a Black Sabbath song with Eddie Van Halen: “I said, ‘You’re playing that wrong’”

Van Halen’s record label stopped him from getting a Black Sabbath songwriting credit in 1994

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Black Sabbath's Get A Grip: Watch the official upgraded video

Get A Grip comes from a new single released to celebrate the upcoming Tony Martin-era box set Anno Domini 1989-1995

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“I’m a good actor. I’m the Jack Nicholson of rock’n’roll! I can do the one expression and people still believe it”: how Ville Valo became one of rock’s last great stars

A classic 2004 interview with Ville Valo that proves he’s always been goth metal’s most charismatic star

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"I wanted to see the world and shoot as many people as possible": Before he joined Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne tried to join the British Army. His application was not accepted

Ozzy Osbourne once wanted to join the British Army. Fortunately for heavy metal, the British Army did not want Ozzy in their ranks

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Record Store Day 2024 – the full list, plus five essential albums to pick up

Record Store Day 2024 is here, but it’s these five albums you should track down and listen to on the big day.

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“B.C. Rich guitars were God back then. They weren’t like a Strat or a Les Paul – they were something different. They had so much power”: Lita Ford on her trailblazing guitar journey – and that time she nearly joined Led Zeppelin

Ever since she lied about her age to save for her first electric guitar, Lita Ford has been all about lead and leading. She looks back at life-changing encounters with Tony Iommi and Ritchie Blackmore, and explains why Kemper profiling is like “putting a Rolls Royce into a Volkswagen body”

Guitar World

“I play the drums like I drive – crazy”: the epic life and tragic death of Cozy Powell

Drum legend Cozy Powell passed away on April 5 1998 at the age of 50. This is his story, by the people who knew him best

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Historic status awarded to Birmingham pub dubbed 'birthplace of heavy metal' where Black Sabbath made their debut

Black Sabbath played their first gig at The Crown – which has been saved from potential demolition by new 'listed' status

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‘A tipping point for the city’: anger in Birmingham as Electric cinema closes

Campaign to save UK’s oldest working cinema and designate Station Street ‘a historic asset’ launched amid redevelopment plans

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Listen to Black Sabbath cover Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water, with Ian Gillan on vocals

During the 1983 Born Again tour, Black Sabbath acknowledged new singer Ian Gillan’s former band by performing Deep Purple’s signature song

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The 11 best Record Store Day 2024 releases – Gorillaz, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth and more

Record Store Day returns for 2024 – here are the special edition albums we think you should look out for during the event.

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"Everyone was going mad about Oasis, but I preferred Blur": Jack Osbourne picks the soundtrack to his life

These are the albums and bands that have shaped Jack Osbourne's tastes

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“I was worried about the album. Someone said it was more commercial. I thought, ‘Oh God, what‘s that supposed to mean?”: how Magnum made their masterpiece On A Storyteller’s Night and saved themselves from oblivion

Late Magnum guitarist Tony Clarkin created one of the most beloved British rock records of the 1980s in the shape of On A Storyteller’s Night

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An Ozzy Osbourne music school with "55 years of memorabilia" is being worked on in Birmingham, according to Sharon

Sharon Osbourne explains why Birmingham means so much to Ozzy, and reveals that a special new project involving the Prince Of Darkness is underway

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“Someone will send me photos of reindeer that inexplicably died in a circle and say, ‘This is so Green Lung!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah! This is working!’” How rising occult stars stumbled into a genre of their own

When guitarist Scott Black asked his grandmother for a Machine Head album, she bought him Deep Purple’s Machine Head – and so began a journey into mixing folk prog with 70s rock

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"It's like a song from a parallel universe!" The funkiest, grooviest Korn remix ever just dropped, and it's got a classic Black Sabbath solo stitched in

Ignore all that Blue Monday nonsense, and get your groove on with this fiercely infectious new Korn mash-up

The Independent UK

Ozzy Osbourne praises T-Pain for ‘the best cover of War Pigs ever’

Black Sabbath frontman asked: ‘Why didn’t you guys call me?’

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"Why didn’t you guys call me?" Ozzy Osbourne calls T-Pain's cover of Black Sabbath classic War Pigs the best ever - and T-Pain is delighted

T-Pain's impressive cover of Black Sabbath's War Pigs has received the highest praise!

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The BBC is selling off rare Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Beatles and er, Bathory albums from its Gramophone Library if you want to expand your vinyl collection

The BBC are to auction off a staggering 285,000 vinyl records over the next year-and-a-half, starting from January 30

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Learn 10 essential guitar rock riffs for beginner players

Get started with the classics from the Beatles to the Stones, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Hendrix and more

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“He was a superb craftsman who loved what he did”: Tony Iommi pays tribute to ‘Old Boy’ SG luthier John Diggins, who has died

Diggins began his career working for John Birch – the Birmingham, UK-based luthier who partnered with Iommi early in the Black Sabbath legend's career – and later struck out on his own, founding Jaydee Custom Guitars

Louder

“I’m so fortunate not to have died. I’ve overdosed, been pistol-whipped, shot at, stabbed, run over in a car... and I’m still here”: Glenn Hughes, The Voice of Rock, has lived the lives of 10 men, and he's not finished yet

Glenn Hughes, The Voice of Rock, looks back upon a lifetime of fabulous, and sometimes terrifying, rock 'n' roll adventures

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