Black Sabbath reformed... lies?

[FerretallicA]

http://metaltalk.net/news/2010882.php

I find it a little hard to believe but stranger things have happened.

While the MetalTalk.net troops converged on Bloodstock Festival, the spies went further afield to find Bill Ward and Geezer Butler lurking around in another part of the Midlands and today, we bring you our best ever exclusive and can tell you first that the original Black Sabbath line-up have reunited.

A decision was made fourteen days ago and this morning (Monday 15th August), Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer ('it will never happen') Butler, and Bill Ward gathered in their secret rehearsal studio and began the process of putting the show back on the road.

 

[Shadow298]

Is Bill Ward even able to play drums any more?
I thought that he was totally fucked up and wouldn't play any more.

 

[Bucko]

hmmmm sounds like bollocks to me , but hey I'd go and see em as Ive never seen the Orginal Sabbath

 

[Spruce Goose]

Just over a year since Dio died too....

 

[Bucko]

yup 16 may 2010

 

[Winmar]

I was thinking about that last night as I watched this bit of awesomeness:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdmwXsIjuPM&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I was expecting this next year, with or without Bill Ward. A little sooner than most people expected I think, but possible. If they gig, I will be there.

 

[Spiff]

Who would they go with if Ward is unavailable?

 

[Spruce Goose]

Not happening. Iommi confirmed there is nothing to it.

 

[Spruce Goose]

And if it wasn't Ward, it would have to be Appice.... Can't remember which one.

 

[Bucko]

Vinny Appice ..... Carmine played in Ozzy solo, Vinella Fudge, Beck Borgart Appice etc ....

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Iommi didn't confirm there was nothing to it, he said his confidence was a broken with a journo he spoke to in June when talks were in the works. I daresay talks still ARE in the works and the quotes from the original article are still true. Ward it probably one of the main question marks though. I can see him taking part, and V. Appice filling in as well perhaps.

This is optimistic. Sabbath are the main band left I want to see in this life.

 

[Bucko]

This is optimistic. Sabbath are the main band left I want to see in this life.


same here man same here

 

[FerretallicA]

Bang.

I'm saddened that a Birmingham journalist whom I trusted has chosen this point in time to take a conversation we had back in June and make it sound like we spoke yesterday about a Black Sabbath reunion.

At the time I was supporting the Home of Metal exhibition and was merely speculating, shooting the breeze, on something all of us get asked constantly, "Are you getting back together?"

Thanks to the internet it's gone round the world as some sort of "official" statement on my part, absolute nonsense. I hope he's enjoyed his moment of glory, he won't have another at my expense.

http://www.iommi.com/index.php?story=130

So much for that.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I am still optimistic that there is something going on behind the scenes, as speculated by Osbourne's family at the premier of the new doco God Bless Ozzy Osbourne. Of course they would have to deny it if it is still unconfirmed and up in the air ideas at this stage.

 

[Bucko]

its true ...

BLACK SABBATH ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND 2012 WORLD TOUR!

11th November 2011


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!



Look forward to seeing you all in 2012.



All the best,

Tony







BLACK SABBATH

REUNITES TO RECORD FIRST NEW STUDIO ALBUM IN 33 YEARS

AND LAUNCH MASSIVE WORLD TOUR IN 2012



OZZY OSBOURNE, TONY IOMMI, GEEZER BUTLER AND BILL WARD

UNVEIL PLANS ON 11/11/11

AT A LOS ANGELES PRESS CONFERENCE

AT THE WHISKY A GO-GO,

WHERE THE BAND PERFORMED THEIR FIRST LOS ANGELES DATE EXACTLY 41 YEARS AGO



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.





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’s 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 “Any band worth their weight in napalm wishes they had written ‘War Pigs.’”



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’s 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’s Never Say Die!



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).



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’s online presence will also be supported by social media via Facebook and Twitter--again, marking the band’s first-ever foray into the social media world.



BLACK SABBATH released their self-titled debut album in 1970. “Black Sabbath is credited with creating heavy metal,” according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “The 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 ‘heavy metal’ enter the popular vocabulary to describe the denser, more thunderous offshoot of rock over which they presided.” The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame also noted, “…they remain one of the most misunderstood bands in rock history,” adding: “The band’s 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.”



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’s 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’s James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.

 

[FerretallicA]

Meh. Press ponies.

 

[Spiff]

Methinks I might go to Download next year - Sabbath and Metallica both headlining. Should be pretty huge for their 10th year (fingers crossed).

 

[Southy]

Well, I gues I should start saving now in case they actually tour here, and by here I mean Brisbane

 

[Winmar]

I was at the Whisky last night and a guy told me that Sabbath were there earlier in the day. That's pretty cool. Why were they there though? Do they all live in America these days? Is this their last reunion?