Vol 4: Super Deluxe Edition will include a newly remastered version of the original album along with 20 previously unreleased studio and live recordings. Available as a four-CD or five-LP vinyl set, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The post Thou Premiere Cover of Black Sabbath’s “Wheels of Confusion” from Vol. 4 Tribute Album: Stream appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The tribute album sees some of the best doom and sludge ...

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 ...