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Columnus Metallicus: February’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Ozzy Osbourne

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Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Duncan Wheeler on Ozzy at the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival

Although they went to the same primary school, Duncan Wheeler knew little about Ozzy Osbourne until Jon Bon Jovi led him to a VHS of a gig that counts as one of the strangest live events in rock history
Anniversary

At Breaking Point: Black Sabbath’s Sabotage Revisited

50 years on, Joe Banks examines the point at which everything started to go wrong for Black Sabbath... even though they were still getting it right. This feature was originally published on 7/6/2015
Black Sky Thinking

Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park 

Keith Kahn-Harris argues that the Back To The Beginning show highlighted the pivotal role that the imperfections of the body play in metal. Live photographs courtesy of Ross Halfin. With thanks to Jasmine Hazel Shadrack
Anniversary

At Breaking Point: Black Sabbath’s Sabotage Revisited

Joe Banks examines the point at which everything started to go wrong for Black Sabbath... even though they were still getting it right
A Quietus Interview

The Ozman Cometh: Ozzy Osbourne’s Egg Beef With Bruce Dickinson

Ozzy Osbourne tells a frankly gobsmacked Joel McIver the truth about drugs, Iommi – oh, and Bruce…
Black Sky Thinking

Black Sabbath – The Unholy Trinity And The Birth Of Heavy Metal

As Black Sabbath, Paranoid and Master Of Reality get the reissue treatment, John Doran revisits them and the birth of heavy metal

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Baker's Dozen

Post Global Music: David Pajo’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of the reunited Slint playing shows this month and next, the hyper-prolific multi-instrumentalist hones his record collection down to a top 13

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