When we’re talking about influential metal bands, there is no more single influential band to heavy music than Black Sabbath ... this album as a return to form by Ronnie James Dio, but ...

On this day 50 years ago, February 13, 1970, Black Sabbath released their self-titled debut album, forever altering the course of music history… nay, human history. Widely credited as the first heavy ...

In 2012, two years after his death, the singer’s former Dio bandmates Vinny ... Rainbow’s seminal 1976 album, Rising. Then ...

But the band’s fortunes took a turn for the worse after Dio’s departure ... for the recording of Black Sabbath’s latest album, ’13’ (minus Bill Ward). Now, with a career spanning ...

Black Sabbath matter because heavy ... an acrimonious split between Sabbath and Dio – who had released the crushing Dehumanizer album earlier that year – but also seems to have sown the ...

Would there be heavy metal without Black Sabbath ... changes over the years (including various singers who followed Osbourne's initial successor Ronnie James Dio) somewhat softened their bite ...