Black Sabbath have posted a video on Youtube featuring interviews with the band concerning their forthcoming album '13', which is due to be released in New Zealand on June 7th.  

The video, which was directed by Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack Osbourne, sees the band and producer Rick Rubin talk about the sound of the new album and includes snippets of some of the new songs.  

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Artist:  Black Sabbath with support from Shihad

Date / Venue:  Saturday April 20th, Vector Arena, Auckland

Last night was unquestionably a bucket list moment, and to be honest one that I never thought would eventuate.

The reformed Black Sabbath returned to New Zealand and played their first show on our shores since appearing at The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival way…

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Black Sabbath are currently six songs into the recording of their upcoming album, which is looking to be released in April next year.  

Guitarist Tony Iommi told The Guardian "We've written the 15 songs and we've played them all, but now at the moment we're recording them. We're about six tracks in at the moment."

Iommi added that original Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward is not part of the proc…

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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has revealed that work on the band's new album is going well despite undergoing chemotherapy as part of his cancer treatment.  

In a statement on his website Iommi wrote "I've had the last dose of chemotherapy so hopefully my body will start to get back to normal soon, the steroids were the worse. I've now got three weeks of radiotherapy coming up which I'm tol…

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Black Sabbath have responded to drummer Bill Ward's statement that he might not take part in the band's upcoming reunion.  

Ward had commented that he would not be part of the reunited Black Sabbath unless he was presented with a "signable contract."  Now the remaining members; Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler have assured fans the reunion will still go ahead.  

The band released…

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