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Black Sabbath albums ranked, from worst to best

Some Black Sabbath albums are epoch-defining classics, some are average, some downright embarrassing, and we've ranked them – from woeful worst to brilliant best

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"It was crazed, almost Charles Manson–like." Before he started Def Jam, and produced everyone from Slayer to Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin played guitar in a noise-rock band called Hose, and recorded one of the worst Led Zeppelin covers ever committed to vinyl

Now one of the most powerful and influential men in the music industry, once upon a time super-producer Rick Rubin was just another punk rock guitarist in a terrible band

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"I thought, What is this? I don't understand what I'm hearing, but wow!" Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor on the "life-changing" record which blew his teenage mind, and why soft rock legends Barry Manilow and Billy Joel may have influenced his songwriting

Trent Reznor testifies to the mind-expanding wonders of his teenage record collection

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“In an age of artifice, media management and manufactured pop stars she’s come through as a breath of fresh air": Inside the making of Adele's seminal second album, 21

“She’s the sharpest, most instinctive artist I’ve ever worked with. She’s pure gut, pure intuition"

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“The way I play guitar, every time I play with a session musician, they’re like, ‘What are you doing? What chords are you playing?’”: Beabadoobee discusses her unorthodox guitar style and how it helped her to gel with Rick Rubin

Best of 2024: “I think what I really go off with, and what Rick really goes off with, is what you feel and the vibe and what you hear,” she says

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“A magical part is this sidechain with the bass”: Lady Gaga breaks down Disease in new studio video

Discover which plugins were used and how Rick Rubin produced her album without being there…

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“I have a Southern accent, and it’s the same on the guitar. I adapted the guitar to do the talking for me when I was too shy”: Marcus King on why your fretboard has its own language – and how mental health became his muse

The Americana-loving singer-songwriter digs into the ties between the ebb and flow of his emotional state and the safe space inherent in the well-worn fretboard of his beloved Big Red

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“I co-wrote most of everything on the Beastie Boys album”: Rick Rubin on his greatest hits of the ’80s - from the Beasties to Roy Orbison

Plus: his pick for the greatest rock 'n' roll producer of all time

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"I played him the song first, and Johnny just looked at me like I was insane." How Rick Rubin convinced Johnny Cash to record his iconic cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt, and why Trent Reznor originally considered Cash's interpretation 'invasive"

Johnny Cash took some persuading before agreeing to Rick Rubin's idea that he should cover a Nine Inch Nails classic

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“If it sounds like I’m standing over a body that’s just been stabbed to death, then it’s perfect.” The brutal heavy metal masterpiece that had producer Rick Rubin yelling: “More Satan!”

How the evil of Slayer flowed “after a few martinis”…

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Serj Tankian admits he “emotionally checked out” during System Of A Down’s final albums

“I was in a weird place. I contributed creatively, but I didn’t.”

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“Somebody needs to occasionally slap Rick Rubin”: Pete Townshend criticises producer’s mixed messages about creativity

He says creativity is “about everybody”

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It's preparing for a new chapter “beyond accommodations.”

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“There were nine other bass players. I got the job. Then I was told they were picking me up in three hours for a tour – I had to take it or leave it”: Tony Stevens on his rocky ride with Savoy Brown, Foghat and Midnight Flyer

Despite industry woes, he loved the challenge of playing with Kim Simmonds and ‘Lonesome’ Dave Peverett, and loved Acoustic amps and Warwick basses

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“The Foo Fighters discovered a ghostly presence that not only knew how to terrify people, but also about the ins and outs of using Pro Tools”: The scariest places music has been recorded

Here's where you might NOT want to record your next album…

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“She didn't move from the sofa and she sang two takes of Rolling in the Deep and that's what we used”: Adele, Daft Punk and Taylor Swift are among our picks for the best recorded albums of the 21st century

For your Recording Week pleasure, these are the are the most notable albums of the last 24 years…

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Joaquin Phoenix reveals he spoke to Christopher Nolan about playing Joker in The Dark Knight

‘I wasn’t ready then,’ the actor said

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“So I met her, and her dad was from down the road from me in Penarth! As she sang, I remember just thinking, wow”: Bass legend Pino Palladino on getting an unexpected call from Rick Rubin to play on an album by a “young British artist”

“She’s a good laugh, Adele,” he says

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With Bob Rock and Rick Rubin at the helm, he recorded some of rock’s most iconic riffs, and launched side-projects with Jerry Cantrell, John Corabi and The Alarm’s Mike Peters – how Billy Duffy’s guitar playing built a Cult following

Duffy’s unique playing style has made the Cult one of rock’s most enigmatic artists, and this video lesson goes deep inside the Sonic Temple to spill the secrets to his rhythm and lead approaches

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“I played a Gibson SG Junior. It was the guitar I used in my punk band – when my apartment got broken into in New York, it got stolen”: Yes, Rick Rubin played the opening riff on Beastie Boys’ No Sleep Till Brooklyn – he looks back at recording a classic

While Kerry King's searing solo is the star of the show, Rubin sets the tone with his rhythm guitar work on the iconic rap rock track

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“He played a solo that I thought was not great. I said, ‘I feel like you could do better!’”: What Rick Rubin told legendary guitarist Joe Perry during the recording of Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s mega-hit collaboration Walk This Way

The famous producer recalls the making of a groundbreaking classic in an interview with Rick Beato

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“Rick Rubin didn’t like it at all!” Watch Serj Tankian eat his first banana terracotta pie – and explain why he wrote a System Of A Down song about it

19 years after first singing about banana terracotta pie on Vicinity Of Obscenity, System Of A Down singer Serj Tankian has tried one

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“It was ridiculous!” Why Rick Rubin couldn’t stop laughing the first time he saw System Of A Down live

Rubin, who co-produced every System Of A Down album from 1998 to 2005, explains why the band split his sides for an entire set

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“I played him Metallica as an example of what I thought was wrong”: How Rick Rubin shaped the sound of Slayer’s classic Reign in Blood record by ignoring heavy metal norms

The 1986 record was the first metal album Rubin produced – and he singled out one of the genre's biggest names when highlighting what he thought shouldn't be done in the studio

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The 20 songs that defined Slayer's career (and the stories behind them)

The ultimate guide to thrash metal titans Slayer - as told through their greatest songs

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