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IcedPriestOfFear · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:35 am Post subject: NEW SABBATH ALBUM AND TOUR!

FINALLY I MAY GET A CHANCE TO SEE THE ORIGINALS AT WORK! =D
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metalus · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:37 am Post subject:

It’s official, seminal Brummie rockers Black Sabbath are reuniting with the original lineup and are to put out a new album!

Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward have started rehearsing for a tour and new studio album.

Iommi said “We’re really looking forward to it and I think the stuff we’ve been writing is really good. It’s more back to the old original stuff.’’

Ozzy and Iommi have been writing new material since June and the album is expected to be released next year.

The reunion has been kept quiet for some time, “It’s all been very hush-hush. Ozzy’s been the worst at trying to hold it back. He’s doing a lot of TV and he’s being asked stuff about a reunion and he’s going ‘well I never say never.’”

Iommi’s only apprehension was regarding the health of drummer, Bill Ward who has suffered from heart problems. ‘‘He hasn’t been 100 per cent. He had an operation a few months ago, so we’ll see how he is.’’
The original lineup of Black Sabbath has not toured since 2005 and they tried to record a new album 12 years ago (their first since 1978) but attempts were abandoned.

IcedPriestOfFear · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:42 am Post subject:

i was just about to post that! Razz

my hope is that they come in the summer when i'm out of school! i want to enjoy this!
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metalus · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:03 am Post subject:

As i mentioned last year, i saw Ozzy live on his Scream Tour last year in june 2010. And he was doing very well, singing well, old water buckets thrown at the crowd etc.... We shall see what develops, looks possibly like a new album, and big tour. then i can image the guys all retiring. Ozzy is 62, Tony is 63, Geezer is 62, and Bill is 62.

ripperowens213 · Metal GOD Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 1193

I rather go watch the Dio's Diciples Very Happy

Im seeing them in Huston this October Twisted Evil

nckissfan · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:51 pm Post subject:

IcedPriestOfFear · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:25 pm Post subject:

Iommi just apologized but apparently the comments were taken the wrong way and there is no reunion in the works Sad

as for Javier....you're a fucking lucky bastard!
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metalus · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 4:01 am Post subject:

http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/53/22370/Tony-Iommi-Issues-Statement-Today-Claiming-BLACK-SABBATH-Reunion-Reports-Are-False

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has dismissed the report by The Birmingham Mail's confirmation earlier that Black Sabbath had reunited for a new tour and album!

Says Iommi:

"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 I 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 now 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.

"To my old pals, Ozzy, Geezer and Bill, sorry about this, I should have known better."

metalus · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:20 am Post subject:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=162096

this came in earlier.

According to the Birmingham Mail, BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi's manager has refused to deny that the band's four original members are getting back together.

The Birmingham Mail reported on Tuesday (August 16) that the original SABBATH lineup plans to reunite for an album and tour, causing Iommi's web site to "virtually crash," according to the guitarist's manager, Ralph Baker.

When asked by Birmingham Mail writer Andy Coleman whether Iommi considered the story in the Birmingham Mail to be untrue, Baker said, "No, he doesn't say that." But Baker added, "We haven't got anything in place. He's not denying that the guys have been talking but there's nothing in the way that's been implied in the statements that you made.

"He made them to you in June and he felt that he made them to you off the record."

According to Coleman, the story of the reunion of SABBATH's original lineup first appeared on a specialist music web site and was expanded by the Birmingham Mail.

Iommi's manager said the guitarist's comments made to the Birmingham Mail in June during a wide-ranging interview that included the charity single he had recorded with DEEP PURPLE's Ian Gillan, his contract to write music for a series of horror films and his contribution to Birmingham's Home Of Metal exhibition, were taken out of context.

"A very insignificant little web site [apparently referring to MetalTalk.net. — Ed.] put something out about SABBATH getting back together and being in the Midlands. End of story," said Baker.

"When you [Birmingham Mail] went online, that's when it went around the world because it was official.

"Tony's web site virtually crashed and it took off.

"That's why Tony's pissed off — because the story would have died a death.

"I don't consider some dodgy little web site [presumably referring to MetalTalk.net. — Ed.] a trigger [to publish]. It was picked up by everybody because a lot of these kids have nothing better to do than simply pick up a story from one site and run with it and see what happens."

The original SABBATH lineup has not toured together since summer 2005, and last convened for their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in early 2006.

SABBATH did try to record a new album 12 years ago, their first since 1978, but abandoned the attempt after just a couple of songs.

BLACK SABBATH "reunion" promotional photo (1999):

PowerKnight · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:38 am Post subject:

I guessed this would be on the cards after Ronnie`s departure, I might go and see them depending on venue etc. PowerKnight Wink

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