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Black Sabbath

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2013

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Your Ears Are in Good Hands

    KCRW BROADCAST #207 03-16-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Our Constitutional Rights Require Constant Vigilance Fanatics! Is this fantastic or what?! We are back on the radio yet again and this one is going to rock! Last week, we had quite the esoteric affair, especially ending with Free Bird. Perhaps ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2013

    The 20 Greatest Metal Albums in History: 20-11

    If you count Black Sabbath's 1970 self-titled debut as heavy metal's birth, the genre is now over 40. It can no longer be called a fad. It can have adult children, and it can run for president. (Insert "presidental metal of freedom" joke here). See also: Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: The Complete List ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2012

    Saint Vitus: Addiction Still Fuels Their Fire

    When their 1986 album Born Too Late was released, it's fair to say not many had picked up on the genius of Saint Vitus. Check this YouTube clip of a performance at the Palm Springs Community Center that year, for example. It appears to have been attended by fewer than a dozen people. Today, Born T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2012

    25 Gorgeous GIFs From Lollapalooza

    By Reed Fischer See also: *Ten Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You *Lovely Ladies of Lollapalooza This past weekend's running of Lollapalooza in Chicago was intense. The heat, the monsoon-like storm on Saturday, and even the lobster corn dogs all exceeded what the human body can take n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2012

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Get Your Ruts Records Out

    KCRW Broadcast #173 for Saturday, July 14, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Obamacare vs. the American Death Machine Fanatics! A great show tonight! In both hours we salute the mighty Ruts and acknowledge the passing of the band's legendary front man Malcolm Owen, who passed away on this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! Advice From Diamond Dave

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Still in Australia, with a lot more shows to go. Right now, I am in Brisbane. We got in a few ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: More Aussie Music, Boris

    KCRW Broadcast #164 for Saturday, May 12, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! R.I.P. MCA Fanatics! Hello from beautiful Western Australia! This will be the last Saturday I will be here. Soon, off to South Africa for a few shows and then, on the 26th, of this month, we will be live on the rad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Music From Down Under

    KCRW Broadcast #162 for Saturday, April 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Hunting, Gut Stew, and Sex With Your Sister Fanatics! I am still here in Australia. The shows have been going great and I have been picking up a lot of great Australian music that we will throw into the mix in ou ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 5, 2012

    The Museum That Roared

    KCRW Broadcast #162 for Saturday, April 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Hunting, Gut Stew, and Sex With Your Sister Fanatics! I am still here in Australia. The shows have been going great and I have been picking up a lot of great Australian music that we will throw into the mix in ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Top Ten Best Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal

    Dio-era Black Sabbath​See also: *Top Ten Worst Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal *Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ronnie James Dio: Who's Better? One of the biggest stories in metal this year is the revolving door for vocalists. Jesse Leach has returned to Killswitch Engage. Iced Earth played their fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! For Those Suffering Valentine's Day Heartbreak

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] One of the best romantic messengers is, of course, music. And then when it's over and you are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ronnie James Dio: Who's Better?

    ​[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] A singer's voice impacts a band's sound so much that a replacement basically creates a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! My New Year's Resolution: To Rock Out

    ​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] For many years I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Henry Rollins: The Column! The War On Christmas Starts With Me

    ​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. It's been a few days now, and I am just emerging ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Five Bands Bringing Rock Back To Metal

    Swedish occult-rockers Ghost​Trademarks such as death-growl vocals and vicious blast beat drumming have caused the term "heavy metal" to be associated in 2011 with the most guttural sounds that can be produced by mankind. It's very easy to forget that prior to the mid-1980s emergence of subgen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    The Misfits - House of Blues - 10-04-2011

    Javier Cabral​The Misfits and The Dickies House of Blues 10-05-2011 More than three decades in, The Misfits are still doing it, with or without Glenn Danzig. To the orthodox practitioner of punk rock, watching these guys play power chords is as big as watching Black Sabbath or Metallica. It ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Top Five Metal Guest Vocalists That Make You Say "WTF"

    WWEThe Ultimate Warrior​At the end of August, Pennsylvania hardcore/metalcore outfit Century released its third album, Red Giant. The group's emotionally-charged lyrics are given a fiery delivery via the combined efforts of vocalist Carson Slovak and bassist/vocalist Ricky Armellino. On this a ... More >>

  • Music

    May 26, 2011

    Melvins' Sugar Daddy Live: Pour Some Sugar on Me

    WWEThe Ultimate Warrior​At the end of August, Pennsylvania hardcore/metalcore outfit Century released its third album, Red Giant. The group's emotionally-charged lyrics are given a fiery delivery via the combined efforts of vocalist Carson Slovak and bassist/vocalist Ricky Armellino. On this a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    William Shatner Reveals Song Lineup for His Upcoming "Metal Album"

    ​Back in February, we broke the news that William Shatner was working on a star-studded new album with some of LA's most prominent metal session musicians (Read "William Shatner Is Recording Star-Studded Metal Album in L.A.: We Got the Details"). Well, now WilliamShatner.com (of course there' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Henry Rollins Column: How to Talk to Right Wing Talk Show Callers

    Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Top 10 Wine And Band Pairings: Or, How About Some Air Supply With That $2 Chuck?

    Flickr user 1808wineThe Vintage Cadillac Essentials​Heavy metal drinking is really the only excuse for naming a wine Sledgehammer. Either that, or you're a mega-millions corporate exec type trying to hook us on cheap inexpensive wine (see #2 when you turn the page). And so begets a Top Ten lis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    City Declares May 30 'Ronnie James Dio Day'

    Dio and the devil horns.​The Los Angeles City Council has officially declared May 30 Ronnie James Dio Day. The announcement was made at Sunday's public memorial service for the recently deceased, eternally awesome metal singer. Event MC Eddie Trunk, the host of VH1 Classic's That Metal Show, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Happy (Belated) Birthday Black Sabbath

    On February 13, 1970, Black Sabbath was born and the world is a darker, dare we say, more brutal place for it. Members of the band spoke with The Times (London) about their early years. Meanwhile, we came across this nifty little anime music video mashing up "Black Sabbath" with Boogiepop Phantom ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 28, 2010

    Lazy Ox Canteen: Where's bäco?

    Finding your bliss in Josef Centeno’s ambitious new downtown bistro

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Heavy Metal Internship Studies Sabbath, Priest, and Napalm Death

    Heavy Metal Internship Studies Sabbath, Priest, and Napalm Death

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    I Am Ozzy: Soon-To-Be Classic Quotes from Ozzy Osbourne's Upcoming Autobiography

    ​There are some amazing sentences in Ozzy Osbourne's new autobiography, I Am Ozzy. In fact, the book starts off with a classic disclaimer: Other people's memories of the stuff in this book might not be the same as mine. I ain't gonna argue with 'em. Over the past forty years I've been loaded ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    LA Ink's Corey Miller: "I'm a Grateful, Old-School Kind of Carny"

    Powerflex 5 via MySpace​St. Louis is hosting a tattoo convention and Nick Lucchesi at our sister paper The Riverfront Times scored an interview with LA Ink's Corey Miller, reality star (he's the one on the show without the boobs), surf rocker, punk rock lifestyle decorator, and self-described ... More >>

  • Music

    September 17, 2009

    Down on the Strip

    Powerflex 5 via MySpace​St. Louis is hosting a tattoo convention and Nick Lucchesi at our sister paper The Riverfront Times scored an interview with LA Ink's Corey Miller, reality star (he's the one on the show without the boobs), surf rocker, punk rock lifestyle decorator, and self-described ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Last Night: Wolfmother's Cosmic Egg Gets Laid Inside Lazarium

    With blatant Black Sabbath riffage and Rush-like song structures, Wolfmother were, and still are, full-on retro-metal revivalists. So why does their music somehow feel fresh? We were asking ourselves this question last night as we soaked in their new record, Cosmic Egg, in its entirety during a lis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Dark Psychedelic Rock from The Sixth Chamber Tonight at the Good Hurt

    Ignacio SegoviaThe Sixth Chamber in the burnt forests of Chatsworth, CA Local psychedelic outfit The Sixth Chamber creates one of the biggest sounds you will ever hear inside a small club. Rahne Pistor's massive blues riffs merge with Sevan Kand's outrageously soulful wail and a propulsive rhythm se ... More >>

  • Music

    June 11, 2009

    Heaven and Hell, and Dio, Geezer, Iommi and Appice

    There are many reasons why this legendary band is not calling itself Black Sabbath — even though it could

  • Music

    April 16, 2009

    Celebrating National Record Store Day: Employees at Houses of the Holy

    Featuring members of Abe Vigoda, the Beat Junkies, Pocahaunted, the Sandinistas, and Black Blue, along with DJ Nobody

  • Eat+Drink

    May 22, 2008

    a Star Is Reborn

    At Lot 1, Josef Centeno’s dishes are as improvised as free jazz

  • Music

    January 25, 2007

    Rock Picks

    for the week of January 25 – February 1

  • Music

    July 20, 2006

    Beasts

    for the week of January 25 – February 1

  • Music

    June 22, 2006

    ’Fros Vs. ’Staches

    for the week of January 25 – February 1

  • LA Life

    May 11, 2006

    LA Vida

    Fuck Garanimals

  • Film+TV

    April 13, 2006

    Film Reviews

    For the week of April 14 - 20

  • Music

    January 2, 2003

    The Year In Music

    For the week of April 14 - 20

  • Music

    October 10, 2002

    Music To Kill By

    War with Iraq? It's in the bag, dad

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    A Cop and I

    Encoutners with the LAPD as told to Christine Pelisek

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    Letters

    Encoutners with the LAPD as told to Christine Pelisek

  • News

    July 19, 2001

    Children of the Grave

    From Black Sabbath to modern heavy metal: The dark at the end of the tunnel

  • News

    July 19, 2001

    13: A Metal Glossary of Styles

    From Black Sabbath to modern heavy metal: The dark at the end of the tunnel

  • News

    July 19, 2001

    Kill 'Em All

    Ozzfest: Murder or suicide?

  • Music

    February 1, 2001

    Sea of Dirt

    A stone by any other name

  • Music

    May 25, 2000

    Be Hair Now

    A stone by any other name

  • Music

    November 18, 1999

    Baby Bummers

    Type O Negative, goth's fresh blood

  • Music

    July 16, 1998

    Music Reviews- Smashing Pumpkins, Gang Starr, 22-Pistepirkko, more

    Type O Negative, goth's fresh blood

  • Music

    July 16, 1998

    Music Reviews

    Type O Negative, goth's fresh blood

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