{"id":3011,"date":"2011-11-12T08:41:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2011-11-12T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T04:40:41","slug":"black-sabbath-reunited-33-years-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2011\/11\/black-sabbath-reunited-33-years-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sabbath – Reunited, 33 years in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well the news that most had anticipated, but has now been made official…today in Los Angeles at the Whiskey A Go-Go where exactly 41 years ago to the day, where the band played their first ever Los Angeles show, one of the worlds most iconic heavy metal bands, Black Sabbath announced their reunion – OZZY OSBOURNE, TONY IOMMI, GEEZER BUTLER AND BILL WARD.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Tony Iommi had to say via his website www.iommi.com<\/a><\/p>\n

“Well, after all the rumours and having to keep plans quiet for so long, I can finally stop dodging questions. The truth is it has only come together properly in the last few days! \u00a0Look forward to seeing you all in 2012.\u00a0All the best,\u00a0Tony.<\/em><\/p>\n

This press release, also from\u00a0www.iommi.com<\/a><\/p>\n

BLACK SABBATH\u00a0REUNITES TO RECORD FIRST NEW STUDIO ALBUM IN 33 YEARS\u00a0AND LAUNCH MASSIVE WORLD TOUR IN 2012
\n<\/strong>After much speculation, the original four members of BLACK SABBATH–OZZY OSBOURNE (vocals), TONY IOMMI (guitar), GEEZER BUTLER (bass) and BILL WARD (drums)–have reunited to record their first new studio album in 33 years with producer Rick Rubin (seven-time Grammy winner, two of those as Producer of the Year) and to embark on a massive world tour in 2012.<\/p>\n

OSBOURNE, IOMMI, BUTLER and WARD as well as Rubin all gathered today on 11\/11\/11 to announce the news at a Los Angeles press conference at the legendary club, the Whisky A Go-Go, the site of the groundbreaking and influential band\u2019s first L.A. concert exactly 41 years ago (Nov 11, 1970). The event was hosted by the revered musical and spoken word artist Henry Rollins who has said that \u201cAny band worth their weight in napalm wishes they had written \u2018War Pigs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Selling over 70 million albums together, the Grammy-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees have signed a new record deal worldwide with Vertigo and Vertigo\/ Universal Republic in the U.S., the band\u2019s original label. BLACK SABBATH is now in the studio recording the as-yet-untitled new album for release in the fall of 2012 (exact date TBA). It will mark their ninth studio album together and their first since 1978\u2019s Never Say Die!<\/p>\n

Next summer, BLACK SABBATH will headline the mammoth multi-day UK Download Festival in the U.K. on June 10. The new album will then be supported with a worldwide headline arena tour (dates TBA).<\/p>\n

BLACK SABBATH also announced today the launch of www.blacksabbath.com, the first-ever official BLACK SABBATH website for all authorized BLACK SABBATH news. In addition, the band\u2019s online presence will also be supported by social media via Facebook and Twitter–again, marking the band\u2019s first-ever foray into the social media world.<\/p>\n

BLACK SABBATH released their self-titled debut album in 1970. \u201cBlack Sabbath is credited with creating heavy metal,\u201d according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. \u201cThe success of their first two albums–Black Sabbath and Paranoid–marked a paradigm shift in the world of rock. Not until Black Sabbath upended the music scene did the term \u2018heavy metal\u2019 enter the popular vocabulary to describe the denser, more thunderous offshoot of rock over which they presided.\u201d The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame also noted, \u201c\u2026they remain one of the most misunderstood bands in rock history,\u201d adding: \u201cThe band\u2019s musicality was generally overlooked, but they possessed an inventiveness and fluency that, in hindsight, makes them seem as much of a progressive-rock band as a heavy-metal one.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1998, BLACK SABBATH released Reunion from their 1997 concerts in Birmingham, England, a two-CD live set that featured two new studio songs. The band has also sporadically reunited for shows in 1999, 2002 and 2004; in 2005, the four performed concerts together when they toured Europe and then headlined the 10th anniversary of Osbourne\u2019s namesake festival OZZfest. Also in 2005, they were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame by Brian May of Queen. This was followed by their induction in 2006 into the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an honor bestowed on them by Metallica\u2019s James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.<\/p>\n\n

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