Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward, and singer Ozzy Osbourne. Black Sabbath are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as "Black Sabbath" (1970), "Paranoid" (1970), and "Master of Reality" (1971). The band had multiple line-up changes, with Iommi being the only constant member throughout its history. Formed in 1968 as the Polka Tulk Blues Band, a blues rock band, the group went through line up
Born Again (Black Sabbath album) Worst Album Sleeves in Metal/Hard Rock". The list was based on votes from the magazine's readers. "NME" included the sleeve on their list of the "29 sickest album covers ever". Black Sabbath's manager, Don Arden, was quite hostile towards the band's ex-vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, who had recently married his daughter Sharon, and he was fond of telling Osbourne that his children resembled the "Born Again" album cover. "Born Again" was released in August 1983 and was a commercial success. It was the highest charting Black Sabbath album in the United Kingdom since "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (1973) and became an American