Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2025 nominees: Heavy on the rock, but light on women, R&B, and artists of color
The nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025 have been announced, and it’s certainly an interesting and ...
“Proud to fly the flag”: What was the first band to identify as heavy metal?
Heavy metal may have been polarising from the minute things started getting darker, but only one band was able to claim the ...
“That tingling sensation when something frightens you – I wanted to create that in music”: The birth of Black Sabbath
It was in early 1969, after a change of name from The Polka Tulk Blues Band to Earth, that Iommi heard the first Led Zeppelin album and vowed to make music that was, in his words, “even heavier”.