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Could Black Sabbath be the next band to get a biopic? As guitarist Tony Iommi tells SPIN , "there was talk" of putting together a film based on the metal pioneers. However, he adds those discussions have since halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "It sort of went out the window when all this thing started," Iommi says, referring to the pandemic. "But we were talking about it probably 18 months ago, about doing the biopic. I havent heard much else." While a Sabbath film may stil...

Ronnie James Dio On Vocals Feature Newly Remastered Audio Along With Rare And Unreleased Music   LOS ANGELES – Singer Ronnie James Dio joined Black Sabbath in 1979 which resulted in two back-to-back classic albums: Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules. On those memorable albums, Dio’s soaring tenor and gothic songwriting were the perfect foil for the band’s bone-crushing mix of razor-sharp riffs, intense grooves, and dark imagery. Rhino salutes the long shadow cast by this short-lived lineup...

Geoff Nicholls — was unreleased for a reason. The leak of his music in such a raw form understandably left Iommi feeling a bit like his privacy had been violated. “Its left a really bad taste in my mouth,” Iommi revealed to Trunk about the track, before clarifying confusion about the lineup featured on the record: himself on guitar, Bill Ward on drums and Iommi added that Nicholls "wasnt even involved in the band" yet. He was given the recording because "Slapback" was a tune the group ...

If Black Sabbath ever felt like the song was any good, the band would have recorded it properly, Iommi said.

But it might have actually been Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler who used the devil horns gesture first in the band. He told Eddie Trunk in a recent conversation that hed been using the sign for years before Dio joined the band. "Ive got pictures of me doing it since 1971," Butler said. "And I always used to do it in the breakdown in the song Black Sabbath — just before it goes into the fast part at the end, Id do that sign to the audience." As far as Butler can recall, Dio began using th...

Butler says the gesture is one of a few things Dio 'nicked' over the years.

But it might have actually been Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler who used the devil horns gesture first in the band. He told Eddie Trunk in a recent conversation that hed been using the sign for years before Dio joined the band. "Ive got pictures of me doing it since 1971," Butler said. "And I always used to do it in the breakdown in the song Black Sabbath — just before it goes into the fast part at the end, Id do that sign to the audience." As far as Butler can recall, Dio began using th...

Butler says the gesture is one of a few things Dio 'nicked' over the years.

Butler says the gesture is one of a few things Dio 'nicked' over the years.

Butler says the gesture is one of a few things Dio 'nicked' over the years.