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“We didn’t want to just make a one trick pony octave up device”: Jimi Hendrix, Tony Iommi and Josh Homme all championed the octave pedal – now KMA Machines’ Mandrake Octo-Shrieker looks to take the effect to new heights

Simple yet effective: the user-friendly Mandrake updates an existing KMA circuit and attempts to solve a key issue of orthodox octave up pedals

Guitar World

That time Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall Of Fame and Ozzy mooned the audience because he didn't think they were rocking hard enough

How Bill Ward's final performance with Black Sabbath was overshadowed by Ozzy Osbourne's buttocks

Metal Hammer

Carlos Acosta and Tony Iommi on Black Sabbath the Ballet – ‘Hopefully people won’t be ripping the seats out’

As this surprising collaboration opens in London, Acosta says it’s part of his drive to bring ballet to new audiences ‘for the survival of the art form itself’

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Black Sabbath – The Ballet: a heavy metal expert reviews this 'spectacle of entertainment'

Ballets are typically performed to the enchanting and distinctive melodies of classical music, not the emphatic beats and supersonic volume of heavy metal. But it’s the music of heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath that scores Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new show, Black Sabbath – The Ballet, which is currently showing at…

The Conversation

Black Sabbath: The Ballet review – riveting riffs, endless kisses and flying limbs

Three choreographers use inspiringly orchestrated tracks from the city’s heavy metal legends to spring some surprises

The Guardian - UK

Paranoid pirouettes – inside Black Sabbath: The Ballet, already a headbanging hit

Will Birmingham Royal Ballet’s near-sold-out spectacular get audiences air guitaring? Our writer dons his denim and leather tutu to meet choreographer Carlos Acosta and Sabbath legend Tony Iommi

The Guardian - UK

30 guitarists on the guitar heroes who changed their life

Slash, Angus Young, Paul Stanley, Billy Gibbons reveal the guitarists who made them want to play in the first place

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“People thought, ‘Not another actor who thinks he can sing!’, but I proved I could carry it off.” How Dracula, Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings legend Christopher Lee became a heavy metal star in his 80s

From inspiring Black Sabbath to golfing with Alice Cooper, Sir Christopher Lee was an icon in metal circles. Then, aged 87, he finally released a heavy album of his own.

Metal Hammer

15 awful albums by classic bands, from Led Zeppelin to Aerosmith

Even rock’n’roll heroes can have a bad day at the office, writes Kevin E G Perry

The Independent UK

“I don't know whether we played it properly, but the audience loved it”: When Black Sabbath regularly covered Smoke on the Water – and unwittingly inspired Spinal Tap's Stonehenge

Sabbath's ill-fated Born Again tour featured comically oversized props “as big as the real Stonehenge”, onstage spills, and a crowd-pleasing hard-rock crossover

Guitar World

“It was exhilarating – it felt like an illicit liaison”: the true story of Brian May and Eddie Van Halen’s Star Fleet Project collaboration

How a kids’ TV show inspired a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between two of rock’s greatest guitarists

Louder

“If it hadn’t been for music, I’d have ended up killing myself”: the epic life and turbulent times of Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler

An epic career-spanning interview with Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler

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Boost pedals: the history of the stompbox that supercharged the sound of rock ’n’ roll – and how to make the most of one on your pedalboard

Tony Iommi, Brian May and Eddie Van Halen all honed their tone by boosting their amps – here’s how a boost pedal can enhance your guitar rig

Guitar World

'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

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

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

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

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

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

Guitar World

“An official Vampire now”: Tony Iommi played Paranoid with Joe Perry, Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper at The Hollywood Vampires’ recent UK show

The Black Sabbath legend dropped in on the band’s Birmingham, UK show and proved he has lost none of his chops since retiring from touring

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See Tony Iommi become an honoury 'Vampire' as he joins Johnny Depp, Joe Perry and Alice Cooper to perform Black Sabbath's Paranoid in Birmingham

The Sabbath legend guested with the Hollywood Vampires supergroup

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Classic rock: Tony Iommi has 469 million year-old fossil named after him

“I’ve had a bit of abuse from my friends about it who’ve enjoyed calling me an old fossil,” says Iommi. “But I think it’s great, a real honor”

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Tony Iommi admits that, yes, sometimes he got carried away playing guitar solos – but Ronnie James Dio was his enabler

Iommi says the Dio years challenged Black Sabbath to up their game and RJD would tell him to solo longer. “Listening back to things, you think, ’Bloody hell! That was a bit over the top‘”

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“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

Tony Iommi meets Drepanoistodus Iommii in Birmingham

Guitar World

Zakk Wylde: “It’s not just about Dime’s chops – it’s about what he created. That’s his legacy – and it’s way, way bigger than just being a great lead player”

Just how to do you replicate the hyper-aggression of Dimebag's guitar? Well, as Zakk Wylde explains, you need a noise gate, you need to let things rip, and you might need some magic, too

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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