Heavy metal is all about the riff. And in guitarist Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath had the king of riffs. It was those inspired, repeated lines that pushed Sabbath to one of the first and surely most ...

The post 50 Years Ago, Black Sabbath Pushed Heavy Metal Forward with Vol. 4 appeared first on Consequence. Clearly, their much-needed break during the first half or so of the subsequent year was well ...

Modern heavy-metal luminaries pay tribute to a cornerstone of the genre on a new compilation called Vol. 4 [Redux]. The comp, out October 30th via Albany’s Magnetic Eye Records, features covers of ...

Black Sabbath were reaching beyond their own musical roots by the time they recorded their fourth album in 1972, coming up with an amalgam of classic heavy riffing, a growing sense of melody and even ...

Happy anniversary to Black Sabbath's Vol. 4 album! Three albums into their career, Black Sabbath had attained such a level of success that they decided to change things up for their next LP in a ...

Black Sabbath's fourth studio album, aptly titled Vol. 4, will be getting a "Super Deluxe" reissue in 2021 complete with 20 unreleased studio and live recordings adding to the collection. Rhino will ...

There’s no way to precisely quantify the colossal amount of drugs Black Sabbath inhaled in 1972 while making their fourth album, which they’d hoped to title Snowblind, in tribute to their favorite ...