The Black Sabbath bassist has offered his first comments on the band's newly announced one-off reunion performance.

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”.

However, Mikael Åkerfeldt, frontman of Swedish renowned prog metallers Opeth, isn't convinced that is really the case.

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The original line-up of heavy metal legends Black Sabbath, including Ozzy Osbourne, will play together for the first time in ...

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