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Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi

'Here Lies Geezer Butler': How a falling out between ex-Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler turned bitter, nasty and personal in the '90s

By Paul Brannigan published

Geezer Butler recalls when Black Sabbath's stage show featured mock gravestones suggesting that both he and his wife Gloria were dead

Black Sabbath circa 1970

“Ozzy had been to school with Tony and they hated each other.” Geezer Butler on the fractious early days of Black Sabbath

By Niall Doherty published

Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi had to iron out some old feuds from the playground before the heavy metal pioneers could get going

Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler

Geezer Butler recalls the time a stage invader with a knife tried to "sacrifice" Tony Iommi at a Black Sabbath show

By Liz Scarlett published

Ex-Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler remembers when a "lunatic" stage-jumper tried to attack Tony Iommi with a knife at a Black Sabbath show in Nashville

Motorhead and Metallica albums replicated in Lego

Here's a collection of classic album covers made out of Lego

By Simon Young published

Music fan and artist Adnan Lotia has reinterpreted legendary sleeves including Metallica, Motörhead and Black Sabbath using the iconic plastic bricks

Geezer Butler and Stonehenge

"It was an utterly ridiculous idea": Geezer Butler on the embarrassing truth behind Black Sabbath's infamous Stonehenge set, their unfortunate 'devil baby' and Spinal Tap

By Paul Brannigan published

"People often ask if I've seen the film This Is Spinal Tap. I always reply, 'Seen it? I lived it'."

Mats Eriksson, Tony Iommi and Esben Horn

“This has to be the weirdest thing that’s ever been named after me!”: Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi presented with sculpture of 469 million-year-old fossil named in his honour

By Paul Brannigan published

Tony Iommi meets Drepanoistodus Iommii in Birmingham

Ozzy Osbourne onstage and flashing his backside

“Ozzy did a great big turd on his car”: how Ozzy Osbourne got his revenge on a promoter who refused to pay him after a disastrous gig

By Classic Rock published

Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler looks back on his disastrous first gig with Ozzy Osbourne – and the ‘dirty protest’ that followed

Adam Levine, Toris Amos, Trent Reznor and Kerry King performing at various shows

10 pop covers of metal songs you won't believe actually happened

By Stephen Hill published

From Lil Uzi Vert covering Chop Suey to Maroon 5 defanging a Nine Inch Nails classic, these covers will stun, embarrass and, in some cases, delight you!

Albums that received bad reviews

“Led Zeppelin write weak, unimaginative songs”: 10 original reviews of classic albums that got it completely wrong

By Paul Travers published

Everyone from Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath to Iron Maiden and Guns N’ Roses had their haters

Download 20 Auction

Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants launch charity auction with memorabilia from Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Kiss and more

By Liz Scarlett published

Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants kick off a huge auction in aid of kids charities, with items from some of the biggest name in metal up for grabs

Carlos Acosta and Tony Iommi on the Black Sabbath Bridge in Birmingham

"It’s basically this story of rags to riches" - Behind the scenes at the Black Sabbath ballet

By Rich Hobson published

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and the project’s creative team explain what the hell is on on at the Black Sabbath ballet

Best comedy metal songs as chosen by Tenacious D

The 10 funniest rock and metal songs according to Tenacious D

By Alec Chillingworth published

AC/DC, Disturbed, Electric Six: Tenacious D talk us through some of rock and metal's funniest songs

Black Sabbath in 1974

"We'd spend all day farting about and end up with nothing usable": the aggravating story of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

By Mick Wall published

Write some songs, get into studio, come out with an album. It worked before. But when it came to making the follow-up to Vol. 4, Black Sabbath couldn’t even get started

Ozzy Osbourne and Ozzy the bull

Ozzy Osbourne says he's "thrilled to bits" that the British public have voted to name a 10 metre-high mechanical metal bull 'Ozzy' in his honour

By Paul Brannigan published

A huge mechanical bull created for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham has been named after proud Brummie, and ex-Black Sabbath frontman, Ozzy Osbourne

Black Sabbath, 1970s: Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne

Black Sabbath almost junked Paranoid because they thought it sounded too much like Led Zeppelin

By Niall Doherty published

When Tony Iommi first played Paranoid to his bandmates, Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler tried to veto its inclusion on the album that eventually took its name

Geezer Butler onstage in 2019

There's a reason Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler doesn't have tattoos, and it involves Nazis

By Paul Brannigan published

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler reveals why an incident from his childhood means he's never been interested in getting a tattoo

A JD Wetherspoons Ultimate Burger meal served with onion rings and chips.

We've found the world's most grotesque tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and it's in a Birmingham pub

By Fraser Lewry published

A new Wetherspoons pub in the Home Of Metal has paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and it's not good at all

Album covers of Zodiac Mindwarp’s Tattooed Beat Messiah, Black Sabbath’s Headless Cross, Neil Young’s Harvest and Judas Priests Jugulator

11 brilliant albums that aren’t on Spotify

By David West published

The classic studio albums by Black Sabbath, Neil Young, AC/DC, Judas Priest and more that aren’t on the world’s biggest streaming service

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Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne apparently no longer speak to each other because their wives won't let them

By Liz Scarlett published

Former Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler reveals in his new memoir that he's no longer on talking terms with Ozzy Osbourne because of a conflict between their wives

Tony Iommi, onstage with Black Sabbath in January 1981

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi once had an onstage guitar solo interrupted by local taxi firm orders coming through his amp

By Paul Brannigan published

Black Sabbath's 1981 UK tour was a victory lap for their rebirth with Ronnie James Dio. A shame then that a local taxi company gatecrashed the celebrations