1968 – 2017 📍 Birmingham, England

Black Sabbath

Heavy Metal Doom Metal Hard Rock

The fathers of heavy metal. Tony Iommi’s downtuned tritone riffs, Geezer Butler’s driving bass and dark lyrics, Bill Ward’s jazz-metal swing, and Ozzy Osbourne’s eerie delivery created the genre.

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👥 Personnel & Lineage (0)

Members

Personnel details being curated from archival liner notes.

⏳ Past Members (11)

Tony Iommi

Lead Guitar

1968 – 2017

Heaven & Hell Rock Aid Armenia Mythology

Geezer Butler

Bass

1968 – 2017

Heaven & Hell GZR Geezer Butler Band Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne

Lead Vocals

1968 – 1979

Ozzy Osbourne

Bill Ward

Drums

1968 – 1980

Ronnie James Dio

Lead Vocals

1979 – 1982

Heaven & Hell Hear 'n Aid Elf Rainbow Dio

Vinny Appice

Drums

1980 – 1982

Dunsmuir Dio Kill Devil Hill

Ian Gillan

Lead Vocals

1982 – 1984

Deep Purple Rock Aid Armenia Gillan WhoCares Deep Purple

Glenn Hughes

Lead Vocals

1985 – 1986

Hughes Turner Project Brazen Abbot Black Country Communion California Breed Deep Purple Deep Purple Trapeze Phenomena Hughes/Thrall The Dead Daisies Black Country Communion

Cozy Powell

Drums

1988 – 1991

Michael Schenker Group Rainbow Whitesnake The Jeff Beck Group

Brad Wilk

Drums (studio)

2012 – 2013

The Smashing Pumpkins Audioslave The Last Internationale Rage Against the Machine

Tommy Clufetos

Drums (touring)

2012 – 2017

Ozzy Osbourne