USA: Iconic heavy metal band, "Black Sabbath" is back, promising new album and tour for 2012

Record ID: 593322

  • Title: USA: Iconic heavy metal band, "Black Sabbath" is back, promising new album and tour for 2012
  • Date: 12th November 2011
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 11, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF BLACK SABBATH BAND MEMBERS SINGER OZZY OSBOURNE, GUITARIST TONY IOMMI, BASS PLAYER GEEZER BUTLER AND DRUMMER BILL WARD BEING ANNOUNCED ON STAGE HENRY ROLLINS HOSTING MEDIA CONFERENCE THE BAND TAKING THEIR SEATS ON THE STAGE PAN OF MEMBERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER, OZZY OSBOURNE, SAYING: "Well, the timing was right," Osbourne said, noting that the four had tried in the past to work together again. "For a long time people were asking about a reunion, 'Will you ever do an album.' It was just time." WIDE SHOT OF PRESSER (SOUNDBITE) (English) BASSIST GEEZER BUTLER SAYING: "It really is back to the old Sabbath style and sound. We tried to do that before and it just didn't work, not up to our standards. But, this time the stuff Tony is playing is absolute brilliant. To be part of it we are all excited again and we know that this time it is going to happen." WIDE SHOT OF STAGE
  • Embargoed: 27th November 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Usa, Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVABTWOWKYN791SNAXAD8VHWTS87
  • Story Text: Veteran British rock band Black Sabbath announced on Friday (November 11, 2011) they are reuniting in their original four man line-up for their first new album in 33 years and a 2012 world tour.
    Singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bass player Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward told a news conference at legendary Sunset Strip club Whiskey a Go Go they would perform at the Download Festival in England in June 2012, and then embark on a world tour.
    The band, which first got together under the Black Sabbath name in 1969, said they were working on new material for the album for release in the fall of 2012. There is no title as yet but it will be produced by Rick Rubin.
    The four musicians, now all in their 60s, released their last studio album of all original material in 1978 with "Never Say Never."
    Rumors of a possible reunion of the English metal band, regarded as one of the pioneers of heavy metal with hits like "Iron Man" and War Pigs," had been swirling for months.
    "Well, the timing was right," Osbourne said, noting that the four had tried in the past to work together again. "For a long time people were asking about a reunion, 'Will you ever do an album.'"
    Nothing has been recorded yet and no dates were announced on Friday for the world tour.
    Frontman Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979, leading to a revolving line-up for a number of years. The original foursome reunited for the 1998 release "Reunion" and played again together sporadically for shows in the early 2000s.
    Black Sabbath was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 and has sold more than 70 million albums worldwide.
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