Before bands like Metallica, Slipknot and Rage Against the Machine – before the term “heavy metal” even existed – Black Sabbath’s colossal riffs and pure power set metal’s mood, with Terry “Geezer” ...

Bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward were all between the ages of 18 and 20 when they began playing together in Birmingham. Naming ...

Geezer Butler said he’d enjoyed the two-week period of being fired from Black Sabbath in 1977. The incident took place when the band members were at the height of distraction, mired in drug use and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. While there’s not much debate regarding which lineup of Black ...

Before Black Sabbath was Black Sabbath, it was a blues band called Polka Tulk and Earth between 1968 and 1969. Even the first few Sabbath albums heavily rely on blues and blues riffs, so is it really ...

Ozzy Osbourne will forever be remembered for the sound of his legendary rock band, Black Sabbath. The legendary rock band was formed in 1968 by Osbourne, Terrence "Geezer" Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill ...

Geezer Butler said he’d be open to a single concert reunion with Black Sabbath. “If it was worth doing and we were all into it, yeah I’d do a one-off,” the bassist admitted during a recent appearance ...

Black Sabbath formed in 1968, when four lads from Birmingham— Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away on July 22, 2025, at age 76 —came together to change music forever ...

Rick Rubin is an absolutely legendary music producer whose work spans several genres from hip-hop to heavy metal to punk to funk to pop. Having started out as a hip-hop producer primarily, he gained a ...