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Black Sabbath announce extensive Technical Ecstasy reissue, including full-album remix by Steven Wilson
By Jackson Maxwell published
The penultimate album by the band's original lineup will be available in Super Deluxe, 4-CD and 5-LP versions on October 1

Tony Iommi and James Hetfield discuss their guitar journeys with Black Sabbath and Metallica in this classic 1992 Guitar World interview
By Brad Tolinski, Alan Paul published
The titanic pair on gear, influences, being heavy metal pioneers, setting bandmates on fire and everything in between

Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler announces 'best of' album and assembles massive 4CD box set of his solo works
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Sabbath bassist's Manipulations of the Mind collects his three solo albums plus a disc of rarities and unreleased tracks
![[L-R] Tony Iommi and Richie Faulkner](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Wk9ciQnTDdr9wmiSBFzfAa-320-80.jpg)
Black Sabbath and Judas Priest donate “money-can't-buy” memorabilia to the largest-ever metal charity prize draw
By Sam Roche published
Highlights of the 1,000-item-plus #ILoveMetal draw include a signed Epiphone Tony Iommi SG Custom and Epitaph presentation signed by Judas Priest

Myles Kennedy delivers an acoustic slide version of Black Sabbath’s Mob Rules
By Sam Roche published
The Alter Bridge frontman enlists his National resonator guitar for a stripped-back take on the Dio-era Sabbath classic

Tony Iommi had to warn Eddie Van Halen to “behave” on the 1978 Black Sabbath/Van Halen tour
By Richard Bienstock published
The British metal legends feared the young support band was “ripping them off,” according to a new EVH biography

Recordings exist of Tony Iommi and Eddie Van Halen jamming at a Black Sabbath rehearsal
By Richard Bienstock published
Iommi even wandered into a store to procure an EVH guitar for the collaboration

Tony Iommi says he's "not happy at all" with the release of new Dio-era Black Sabbath song, Slapback
By Matt Owen published
Iommi also claims Dio plays bass on the recording, rather than Geezer Butler
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