A 1964 Gibson SG propelled Tony Iommi’s instantly recognizable guitar sound, but if it weren’t for a bad pickup and a risky gear swap, the band’s change-making album might have sounded very ...

As Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi recalled in an interview with Classic Rock: “We lived in a beautiful house in Bel Air. It had a ballroom and bar leading out to the garden, and we rehearsed in the bar ...

The origin story of heavy metal is as well worn as those of Batman and Spider-Man: Tony Iommi didn’t see his parents killed in an alley, and he was never bitten by a radioactive spider, but he did ...