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10 obscure but brilliant 70s bands who should have been huge

These 70s bands came, they rocked, and they vanished without trace

Louder · Sep 2

“Equal amounts extreme anxiety and unbelievable pleasure”: Mastodon look back on the pressure and delight of playing Black Sabbath’s final show

The Atlanta metal band opened the last gig before Ozzy Osbourne’s death in July 2025

Metal Hammer · Sep 2

How Ozzy Osbourne conquered personal demons and bitter contract wars to eclipse Black Sabbath. "Part of me wanted to say to them, you fired me, and now I don’t need you, so f*** you"

Forty years after the release of The Ultimate Sin, this is the story of how a fragile but defiant Ozzy Osbourne took on his former band – and won

Metal Hammer · Aug 28

“In loving memory of the Prince of Darkness”: Sophie Lloyd pays tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with a blazing shred cover of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid

The Machine Gun Kelly guitarist and YouTube superstar marks the first anniversary of Ozzy's death by giving a Sabbath classic the full-shred treatment

MusicRadar · Jul 23

“Randy said, ‘Maybe if you tried it in this key…’ He had the patience because he was a guitar teacher. He wouldn’t intimidate me. Because I’m quite easily intimidated”: Ozzy Osbourne on his special writing dynamic with Randy Rhoads

Blizzard of Ozz was the Prince of Darkness' solo debut – but it forever marked Rhoads as a guitar hero for the ages

Guitar World · Jul 22

Ozzy Osbourne’s bandmate Tony Iommi watches ‘dear friend’ on YouTube one year after Black Sabbath frontman’s death

Osbourne is famed for co-founding the chart-topping 1960s group alongside Iommi, bassist Terence "Geezer" Butler, and drummer Bill Ward

The Independent UK · Jul 22

Black Sabbath star Tony Iommi honours ‘dear friend’ Ozzy on anniversary of death

Iommi and Osbourne rose to fame in the chart-topping heavy metal group.

Evening Standard · Jul 22

"We thought, 'What the hell is going on around here?' They thought he was some lunatic who got into the castle." How a ghostly apparition ended Tony Iommi's writer's block and inspired one of Black Sabbath's greatest riffs

With Tony Iommi suffering from writer's block, Black Sabbath did the most logical thing: They hired a haunted castle

Metal Hammer · Jul 15

“I’m just catching a ride, I’m not in retirement or ill or giving up”: Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward declares he’s “still a drummer” despite needing to use a wheelchair

The pioneering heavy metal sticksman “can’t walk very far without needing to rest” but refuses to give up his instrument

Metal Hammer · Jul 9

"That riff is probably the very first heavy metal riff ever": The story of the Hendrix-inspired Cream classic their label boss thought was "psychedelic hogwash"

Cream's Sunshine Of Your Love was a slow-burning success, but it inspired a generation of future rockers

Louder · Jun 30