BAND EMERALD SABBATH ALBUM NINTH STAR LABEL PHD OUT 15/2/2019 OUR RATING 80/100 The 'Ninth Star' album is a great an ambitious epic rock & classical music tribute to BLACK SABBATH, that features 10 former members of Black Sabbath and several amazing players: Adam Wakeman (Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne), Bev Bevan (Black Sabbath/ELO), Neil Murray (Black Sabbath/Whitesnake), Terry Chimes (Black Sabbath/The Clash), Laurence Cottle (Black Sabbath/The Alan Parsons Project), Ron Keel

Headless Cross is the 14th studio album Black Sabbath out in 1989 via I.R.S. Records. It was the second album to feature Tony Martin as singer and the first featuring Cozy Powell as drummer. Laurence Cottle played bass as session man but he wasn't an official member. Cottle did appear in the video of HEADLESS CROSS but not featuring in promotional pics. For the tour, Neil Murray was the new bass player. The track "When Death Calls" shows a guitar solo played by Brian May. TRA

The unbelievable 50 years career of BLACK SABBATH was enhanced from contributions of top drummers. The most famous is obviously BILL WARD, a founding member with OZZY OSBOURNE, GEEZER BUTLER and TONY IOMMI, present from the first self-titled masterpiece to HEAVEN AND HELL. Next we can see him on long-disputed BORN AGAIN, one and only full-lenght with IAN GILLAN on vocals, and on albums REUNION (1998) and PAST LIVES (2002). Another top-notch was VINNY APPICE, present on DIO's

WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS is the 2nd solo full-lenght  by Black Sabbath's drummer Bill Ward. It was released on April 27, 1997, via Cleopatra Records. TRACKLIST "Hate" – 5:00" Children Killing Children" – 3:51 "Growth" – 5:45 "When I was a Child" – 4:54 "Please Help Mommy (She's a Junkie)" – 6:40 "Shine" – 5:06 "Step Lightly (On the Grass)" – 5:59 "Love & Innocence" – 1:00 "Animals" – 6:32 "Nighthawks Stars & Pines" – 6:45 "Try Life" – 5:35 "When the Bough Breaks" – 9:45 LINE U

BLACK SCIENCE is the second studio album by GZR (for this album the band was known as Geezer), the band leaded by BLACK SABBATH's bass player GEEZER BUTLER. It was released on July 1, 1997 via TVT Records. TRACKLIST "Man in a Suitcase" – 4:09 "Box of Six" – 3:53 "Mysterons" – 5:36 "Justified" – 4:05 "Department S" – 4:45 "Area Code 51" – 4:48 "Has to Be" – 3:29 "Number 5" – 5:04 "Among the Cybermen" – 4:43 "Unspeakable Elvis" – 3:47 "Xodiak" – 3:34 "Northern Wisdom" – 3:46

Raymond Arthur "Ray" Gillen (May 12, 1959 – December 1, 1993) was a not forgotten singer-songwriter, known for his work with Badlands and Black Sabbath. Gillen was born on in New York but was raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. He played in New Jersey clubs with several bands, including, among others, Quest (1978–'80), F-66 (1980–'81), Savage, and Vendetta and Harlette. In 1985, he joined Bobby Rondinelli's band. In 1986, Black Sabbath, touring for the Seventh Star album, a

PLASTIC PLANET is the debut studio full-lenght by GZR (known at the time as g/z/r), an HM metal featuring Geezer Butler. The album features Fear Factory singer Burton C. Bell. The song "Giving Up the Ghost" was lyrically directed at Tony Iommi and his continuation of the Black Sabbath moniker. TRACKLIST "Catatonic Eclipse" – 6:10 "Drive Boy, Shooting" – 4:17 "Giving Up The Ghost" – 5:12 "Plastic Planet" – 4:19 "The Invisible" – 3:43 "Seance Fiction" – 5:55 "House of Clouds

The first solo album by BLACK SABBATH's riffmaster TONY IOMMI, took nearly five years to make. All songs were written by Iommi, producer Bob Marlette and the respective singers of each track (except "Black Oblivion", written by Iommi and Billy Corgan). Iommi's career is linked to his time in Black Sabbath, a band he led from its formation in 1968 to its semi-retirement in 1999. A number of musicians associated with Black Sabbath appear on Iommi. Track 9 features Ozzy Osbou

The album title and its concept allude to Norse mythology. In Norse mythology, Týr is the god of single combat and heroic glory and it's and the son of Odin. This album shows the most clear departure from band's trademark sound, with some drops of it in some riffs. Their music here is darker than previous works. Geezer Butler, Ian Gillan and Brian May made guest appearances on the European leg of the TYR tour; Butler and May appearing during the encore of the show performe

THE ETERNAL IDOL is the 13th studio full-lenght by Black Sabbath, released on November 23, 1987. It is the first Black Sabbath job with Tony Martin on vocals The album was originally to be recorded with Spitz and vocalist Ray Gillen. The first was replaced by BOB DAISLEY. Tony Martin was hired and rerecorded vocals helped by Chris Tsangarides at Battery Studios. Most tracks were written by Tony Iommi and Bob Daisley (the vinyl version saysbthat all songs were written only

VINNY APPICE BAND - Mob Rules live Europa tour A great night near Torino, North Italy, for a gig of solo band of Vinnie Appice, seen a few months ago on tour with project Appice Brothers, which involves also his brother Carmine Appice. Il Peocio, Trofarello - May 12th. (Pics Claudia Jonny Tara) #APPICE #blacksabbath #dio

Fused is the 2nd solo album by Tony Iommi, published in 2005. This album features as vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (who was vocalist for Black Sabbath on the album Seventh Star, originally intended to be Iommi's first solo album) and Kenny Aronoff as drummer. This platter was recorded in Wales, in December 2004, and was produced by Bob Marlette (who also played here keyboards and bass) and Iommi. TRACKLIST "Dopamine" – 4:10 "Wasted Again" – 3:56 "Saviour of the Real" –

BAND APPICE LOCATION DRUSO- RANICA (BERGAMO)- N.ITALY DATE Jan 19th, 2018 TIME 80 MIN Last Friday Appice Brothers, Carmine and Vinny have landed in Bergamo, near Milan, for the concert planned to promote the new album "SINISTER". 80 minutes on fire in front of a crowd not large but very hot. Among many improvisations, togheter with t italian musicians (bass, guitar and vocals), they entertained the audience with a trip through their careers and with some songs from aforementi

BAND Old Mother Hell ALBUM Old Mother Hell LABEL Cruz Del Sur Music OUT 2018 (Feb 23rd) OUR RATING 85/100 OLD MOTHER HELL was born in 2015 from the ashes of a local thrash act, HATCHERY. The band recorded their self-titled debut album in May 2017 in Mannheim (Germany) with producer/engineer Jens Siefert. Let's start to the end: a beautiful job by this amazing power-trio..trio? It seems they're playing in five or six!! Guys that learned the lesson from the the past (BLACK SABB

SEVENTH STAR is the 12th studio full-lenght by Black Sabbath, avalaible from January 1986. This album came out after not easy times for the band. With Tony Iommi being the one and only founding member left, Geoff Nicholls, Eric Singer, and Dave Spitz contributed to this job. Glenn Hughes was the lead singer on this album and he didn't play bass. It was the first Black Sabbath album to feature the band as a quintet, as keyboardist Geoff Nicholls was confirmed as an official b

"The Devil You Know" is the one and only studio album by Heaven & Hell, the Black Sabbath MOB RULES line up. It was the Ronnie James Dio final studio album before his death in May 2010. The album's US import was released in Japan on 24 April 2009, four days earlier than its original due date of 28 April. The Japan pressing which is a SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) was released on 27 April. It was produced by the band and sound engineer Mike Exeter. In 2006 the Ronnie J

BAND APPICE ALBUM SINISTER OUT 2017 (Oct 27th) LABEL SPV OUR RATING 83/100 After two amazing careers in hard’n’heavy world, finally It's the time for a project that involves the APPICE BROTHERS. Stop..It's a project but not only in studio but also LIVE! And, in our opinion, this is very important in a time where more and more frequently we're being invaded from a lot of only studio's bands without heart and with musicians that, maybe, know each other only through e-mail or sk

BAND BLACK SABBATH ALBUM THE END - BIRMINGHAM 4 February 2017 OUT 2017 (November, 16th) LABEL UNIVERSAL OUR RATING: 90/100 It's hard say THE END but we think it's better say it when all members of a band, which had written the history of Hard'n'heavy, are alive and in this kind of shape. THE END is the documentary of the last gig of BLACK SABBATH in BIRMINGHAM, the british city when all began almost fifty years ago. An incredible band, able to mix the blues roots with dark el