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Music at the Movies – The End of the End for Black SabbathMusic at the Movies – The End of the End for Black SabbathCineplex Events9/26/2017 10:04:00 Am

Black Sabbath (est. 1968) is done. Retired. Finished. Seriously. They mean it this time. It’s over. I mean, why else would they call this farewell tour The End?

Okay, so maybe it’s not really the end of Sabbath. Although Ozzy says that he’s done with the band, he’s said that before. And why didn’t he make a proper farewell statement at the end of the last show? Tony Iommi doesn’t want to tour anymore for health reasons, but he says he’d consider recording a new album and perhaps the odd on-off gig. Geezer? He’ll go along with whatever Ozzy and Tony say. Bill Ward wasn’t part of this farewell because he was fighting with the other three,...

London, Aug 11: Heavy metal band Black Sabbath will be honoured with the title 'Living Legends' at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards here in November.

"It's good to be a living legend. Better than being a dead one," dailystar.co.uk quoted frontman Ozzy Osbourne as saying.

Some of the popular songs of the band, which also consists of guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward, include "Paranoid", "Iron Man" and "Children of The Grave".

The band recently reunited and its members are currently touring North America. However, Ward couldn't join the band on tour.

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Nashville, Tenn. — Ozzy Osbourne and the members of Black Sabbath worked hard to create a dark aura around their band in the late 1960s, laying down a proto-metal blueprint for a legion of groups to follow.

As the band's original lineup attempted to reform over the last 10 years to record a long-anticipated new album – the first with Osbourne singing since he was fired in 1979 – there was no need to manufacture that sense of doom. Time and again events conspired to interfere. On its latest attempt, things went more awry than usual. Drummer Bill Ward left the band over a contract dispute. Guitarist Tony Iommi was diagnosed with lymphoma. And Osbourne began to drink again.

"Things always get messed up," Osbourne said. "Like Bill had the heart attack on one (in the late 1990s). When Tony got stricken by cancer, we went `This is ... insane. But he turned up every day.

It finally happened. A new Black Sabbath album with Ozzy on vocals. It would have been a full fledged original line-up reunion too if it hadn't been for drummer Bill Ward dropping out after a weak-ass contractual dispute. But that's Ok, because Rick Rubin produced '13' and there's no-one better to produce a Sabbath album than an actual wizard. Brad Wilk from Rage Against The Machine stepped in for the drums on Black Sabbath's 19th studio effort and he does a fine job. This is also the first Sabbath album with Ozzy Osbourne on vocals since 1978's 'Never Say Die', so that's the money right there. The old crew has reunited for several live performances over the years but this is an actual record. A brand new Black Sabbath album. How cool is that? I still don't think it's real and I've...

Feature Sarah Dobbs Jan 31, 2013

As the anniversary of his passing approaches, Sarah looks back over the career of Boris Karloff - one of cinema's true icons...

If there’s one classic movie star I’d love to have met, it’s Boris Karloff. Now, he’s mostly remembered for his breakthrough role in Universal’s 1931 adaptation of Frankenstein: if you close your eyes right now and imagine Karloff, chances are it’s in green face paint with bolts in either side of his neck. But there was a hell of a lot more to him than that.

Karloff was an amazingly talented actor who brought something special to just about every role he played, and it would have been amazing to get the chance to sit down and talk to him about his life and career, to get his perspective on fame, Hollywood, horror, acting, and all the rest of it.

Some sad news regarding one of Black Sabbath's original band members: Guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with lymphoma. The legendary group made the announcement in a statement posted to its Facebook page. "His bandmates would like everyone to send positive vibes to the guitarist at this time," it reads. "Iommi is currently working with doctors to establish the best treatment plan—the "Iron Man" of Rock & Roll remains upbeat and determined to make a full and successful recovery." The statement goes on to say that, despite the diagnosis, the heavy metal quartet's original lineup—Iommi (pictured here on the far right), Geezer Butler, Bill Ward and, of...

The Osbourne family suffer from no lack of media exposure, but now its most famous member is stepping back out into the spotlight. According to Reuters, Ozzy Osbourne is reuniting with his Black Sabbath bandmates to record their first new album in over a whopping three decades -- since 1978, to be exact. The legendary heavy metal band announced their reunion and subsequent album (to produced by Rick Rubin) and world touring plans (they're set to headline the Download Festival in England in June 2012) in a press conference held Friday.

"It's now or never," the band told reporters at Whisky a Go Go club in Los Angeles -- where the British pioneers of heavy metal first performed exactly 41 years ago. With the Ozz approaching 63 years-old next month, we can only hope that he, along with bandmates Tommy Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, are more "Iron Man" than "Paranoid."...

According to an interview with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi in UK metal mag Terrorizer, the legendary band's original lineup – Iommi, frontman Ozzy Osbourne, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward – recently met for a casual jam session to play several of their classic songs, adding a little bit more fuel to the ongoing rumor that the band might be game for an official reunion. It's still hard to tell at this point, but this sounds like a step in the right direction. Hit the jump for more info... Iommi has been doing a lot of press for his forthcoming book Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven And Hell With Black Sabbath, which is set to hit bookstores on November 1st. More recently he's gone...