The Dio Years was released on 3 April 2007, reaching No.54 on the Billboard 200, while the single "The Devil Cried" reached No. For the release, Iommi, Geezer Butler, Dio and Vinny Appice reunited to write and record three new songs as Black Sabbath. While Osbourne was working on his new solo album in 2006, Rhino Records released Black Sabbath: The Dio Years, a compilation culled from the four Sabbath releases featuring Ronnie James Dio. In November 2005, Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, and in March 2006, after eleven years of eligibility, the band were inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band remained on hiatus until mid-2004, when they returned to headline Ozzfest 20. It introduced Osbourne to a broader audience and, to capitalise, Sanctuary Records (who own Sabbath's back catalogue) released the live album Past Lives, featuring material recorded in the 1970s, including the Live at Last album.
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In March 2002, Osbourne's Emmy-winning reality TV show The Osbournes debuted on MTV, and quickly became a worldwide hit. But, for all that, the chemistry just wasn't there." Īfter one more reunion tour in mid-2001, where they again headlined Ozzfest, Sabbath went back on hiatus.
You'd think he'd run out of things to play. He just goes, 'Here you go,' and comes out with one better than you've ever heard in your life. Tony was still firing off these amazing heavy metal riffs. Geezer wasn't writing the lyrics anymore, I was having real big problems coming up with melody lines and topics to sing about. We produced our own stuff and then we handed the tapes over to Rick Rubin and that was the last I heard of it. It may be great, but I haven't heard it since, apart from the one song we were doing live. "We got very scratchy stuff," Ozzy explained in late 2001. It's great fun and we all have a good chat, but it's just different, trying to put an album together." Now everybody has done so many other things. "In days there was no mobile phone ringing every five seconds. It's a shame because were really good." "It's quite different recording now." he added. Tony Iommi recalled: "It just came to an end. These sessions were halted when Ozzy Osbourne was called away to finish tracks for his album Down to Earth, released in October that year.
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After a series of reunion tours from 1997 to 1999 – mostly with Ozzfest – the original line-up began work on a new album with producer Rick Rubin in the spring of 2001.
The following months left the group at a crossroads. It had been 15 years since the last studio track. The album was also certified platinum in four countries.īlack Sabbath released its 18th studio album, Forbidden, in 1995, to negative reviews. It was later certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for selling 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Commercially, 13 was a number-one album in several countries, including the United Kingdom and United States. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014, the band won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "God Is Dead?". 13 received positive reviews from critics praise was directed at the band's songwriting and performance abilities several decades after their formation, though the album has been cited as a product of the loudness war, having a compromised sound quality as a result of an overly compressed dynamic range. The singles " God Is Dead?", " End of the Beginning", and "Loner" were released in promotion of the album. In addition to original members Osbourne, Butler and guitarist Tony Iommi, the band was joined at the recording sessions by drummer Brad Wilk, of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, following original drummer Bill Ward's decision to not participate in the reunion, due to a "contractual dispute." When Black Sabbath announced the end of its hiatus on 11 November 2011, the band announced that they would restart work on a new album with Rubin. The album's development was delayed over a 10-year period, as Osbourne resumed his solo career while the rest of the band members went on to pursue other projects, including GZR and Heaven & Hell. It was also the first studio album with Osbourne since Never Say Die! (1978), and with Butler since Cross Purposes (1994).īlack Sabbath's original line-up first began work on a new studio album in 2001 with producer Rick Rubin. It was the band's first studio recording with original singer Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler since the live album Reunion (1998), which contained two new studio tracks. It was released on 10 June 2013 through Vertigo Records, acting as their first studio album in 18 years (the longest gap between albums during their run) following Forbidden (1995). 13 is the nineteenth and final studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath.