BAND LINER NOTES
📅 1968 – 2017
Black Sabbath
📍 Birmingham, England
Archival Biography
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.
Musical Genres
Heavy Metal Doom Metal Hard Rock
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👥 Band Personnel (11)
Archival Roster Tony Iommi
Lead Guitar
Also in: Heaven & Hell, Rock Aid Armenia, Mythology
Geezer Butler
Bass
Also in: Heaven & Hell, GZR, Geezer Butler Band, Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne
Lead Vocals
Also in: Ozzy Osbourne
Bill Ward
Drums
Ronnie James Dio
Lead Vocals
Also in: Heaven & Hell, Hear 'n Aid, Elf, Rainbow, Dio
Vinny Appice
Drums
Also in: Dunsmuir, Dio, Kill Devil Hill
Ian Gillan
Lead Vocals
Also in: Deep Purple, Rock Aid Armenia, Gillan, WhoCares, Deep Purple
Glenn Hughes
Lead Vocals
Also in: Hughes Turner Project, Brazen Abbot, Black Country Communion, California Breed, Deep Purple, Trapeze, Phenomena, Hughes/Thrall, The Dead Daisies, Deep Purple, Black Country Communion
Cozy Powell
Drums
Also in: Michael Schenker Group, Rainbow, Whitesnake, The Jeff Beck Group, The Jeff Beck Group
Brad Wilk
Drums (studio)
Also in: The Smashing Pumpkins, Audioslave, The Last Internationale, Rage Against the Machine
Tommy Clufetos
Drums (touring)
Also in: Ozzy Osbourne
💿 Record Labels:
Vertigo Records Warner Records
🎛️ Producers & Engineers:
Martin Birch Rick Rubin ⚡