Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath is an English heavy metal band formed in 1968 [4] in Birmingham by Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums). Since then, the band has undergone many lineup changes, with more than twenty-five former members. Formed originally as a rock blues band called Polka Tulk at first and later, Earth, the group sat on the occult and horror lyrics with guitars tuned in a more severe, changing its name to Black Sabbath and getting several gold and platinum the 1970s. As one of the earliest and most influential heavy metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath helped develop the genre with publications such as Paranoid album that was four times platinum. They have sold over fifteen million copies in the United States.

Ozzy Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979 to be replaced by Ronnie James Dio, former vocalist of Rainbow. However, Black Sabbath saw how, over the 1980s and 1990s, it took four more vocalists Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen and Tony Martin. The original lineup met in 1997 and released a live album, Reunion, whose song "Iron Man" won the Grammy Award in 2000, thirty years after its original publication in Paranoid. The alignment of the early 1980s consisting of Iommi, Butler, Dio and Vinny Appice met in 2006 under the name Heaven and Hell, a title taken from the Black Sabbath album of the same name.