Geezer Butler has confirmed that the newly surfaced recording of a song titled "Slapback" was indeed a Black Sabbath song, it just wasn't one of the songs that wound up being included on any album.

A previously unreleased recording of Black Sabbath rehearsing the Dio-era track “Heaven and Hell” surfaced earlier this winter, published by the estate of live band member and frequent collaborator ...

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi said he is "not at all happy" that an unauthorized 1979 rehearsal recording titled "Slapback" surfaced earlier this week. He also claimed that Ronnie James Dio, who sang on ...

There’s been a lot going on in the world of the late, great Ronnie James Dio lately. His autobiography Rainbow In The Dark is finally getting a long-waited posthumous release on July 27, and the ...

Earlier this week, a rehearsal recording of a previously-unreleased Dio-era Black Sabbath song, “Slapback,” was released. It was unearthed by the estate of former Black Sabbath live ...

Iommi also said it was Dio on bass, not Geezer Butler. In an interview with Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Iommi said he's pissed the song was posted online and that it wasn't even Butler on bass. As ...

I can only imagine what it’s like for someone who’s performed hundreds (thousands?) of live shows to millions of people over the past four decades to hear a demo of an unreleased song they played on ...