Black Sabbath

Style: Heavy Metal / Doom Metal

Origin: United Kingdom ( Birmingham, England )

Years Active: 1968 - 2006 ; 2011 - active

Previous Names: Polka Tulk ( 1968 ) ; Earth ( 1968 - 1969 )

Current line-up:

Ozzy Osbourne - vocal ( Ozzy Osbourne )

Tony Iommi - guitar ( Iommi, ex-Heaven And Hell, ex-WhoCares, ex-Jethro Tull )

Geezer Butler - bass ( Geezer, ex-Ozzy Osbourne, ex-Heaven And Hell )

Past members:

Bill Ward - drums ( Bill Ward )

Eric Singer - drums ( KISS, ex-Avantasia, ex-Alice Cooper, ex-Badlands )

Vinny Appice - drums ( Martiria, Last in Line, ex-Dio, ex-Heaven And Hell, ex-Erik Norlander, ex-Kill Devil Hill, ex-Minoru Niihara, ex-WWIII )

Cozy Powell - drums R.I.P. ( ex-Cozy Powell, ex-Cozy Powell's Hammer, ex-Tony Martin, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen, ex-Rainbow, ex-Emerson Lake & Powell, 
ex-Brian May, ex-Jeff Beck, ex-Michael Schenker Group, ex-Whitesnake )

Bev Bevan - drums ( Bev Bevan's Move )

Bobby Rondinelli - drums ( Rondinelli, Axel Rudi Pell, ex-Sun Red Sun, ex-Warlock, ex-Doro, ex-Blue Öyster Cult, ex-Riot, ex-Rainbow, ex-Quiet Riot )

Ronnie James Dio - vocal R.I.P. ( ex-Dio, ex-Heaven And Hell, ex-Rainbow )

Ian Gillan - vocal ( Deep Purple, Ian Gillan, ex-WhoCares, ex-Gillan & Glover )

Tony Martin - vocal ( Tony Martin, Rondinelli, Giuntini Project, The Cage, ex-Empire, ex-Cozy Powell's Hammer )

Glenn Hughes - vocal ( Glenn Hughes, California Breed, Voodoo Hill, Iommi, ex-Deep Purple, ex-Black Country Communion, ex-Erik Norlander, 
ex-Hughes Turner Project, ex-Gary Moore )

Craig Gruber - bass ( Ravenlord, ex-The Rods, ex-Rainbow )

Dave Spitz - bass ( ex-Impelliteri, ex-White Lion )

Neil Murray - bass ( Empire, Snakecharmer, Rondinelli, Michael Schenker Group, ex-Badlands, ex-Tony Martin, ex-Brian May, ex-Cozy Powell's Hammer, 
ex-Gary Moore, ex-Whitesnake )
Bob Daisley - bass ( ex-Ozzy Osbourne, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen, ex-Rainbow, ex-Gary Moore, ex-Uriah Heep, ex-Chicken Shack )
Laurence Cottle - bass ( Laurence Cottle Big Band, ex-Bill Bruford's Earthworks )


Main discography:
[ 1970 ] Black Sabbath
[ 1970 ] Paranoid
[ 1971 ] Master of Reality
[ 1972 ] Black Sabbath Vol. 4
[ 1973 ] Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
[ 1975 ] Sabotage
[ 1976 ] Technical Ecstasy
[ 1978 ] Never Say Die!
[ 1980 ] Heaven And Hell
[ 1981 ] Mob Rules
[ 1983 ] Born Again
[ 1986 ] Seventh Star
[ 1987 ] The Eternal Idol
[ 1989 ] Headless Cross
[ 1990 ] Týr
[ 1992 ] Dehumanizer
[ 1994 ] Cross Purposes
[ 1995 ] Forbidden
[ 2013 ] 13