Geezer Butler1968
Geezer Butler picks the name of the band after seeing it on a movie theatre marquee, thinking it sounded doomy & gloomy
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Geezer Butler picks the name of the band after seeing it on a movie theatre marquee, thinking it sounded doomy & gloomy
Writes dark lyrical themes for the debut album, adding occult and anti-war imagery to the band's music.
Records the debut album with heavy riffs that help define the emerging heavy metal style.
Sings on Black Sabbath's debut album, released on Friday the thirteenth in February 1970.
Drums on the debut album Black Sabbath, helping establish the band's slow, heavy power.
Black Sabbath release the Album, "Paranoid". Black Sabbath releases a first album, "Black Sabbath"
Black Sabbath release the Album, "Volume 4". Black Sabbath release the Album, "Master of Reality"
Black Sabbath release the Album, "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
Black Sabbath release the Album, "Technical Ecstasy"
Ozzy Osbourne leaves Black Sabbath in October of 1977 to try and form the first incarnation of "Blizzard of Ozz"
Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne's drinking led to his firing from the band, he is replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio
Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne's drinking led to his firing from the band, he is replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Rejoins Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath release the Album, "Never Say Die"
Joins Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osbourne is dismissed, beginning the Dio-fronted era.
Joins Black Sabbath on drums after Bill Ward leaves during the Heaven and Hell period.
Ozzy Osbourne releases the live LP Speak Of The Devil with the favorites "Paranoid" and "Iron Man / Children Of The Grave" medley
Black Sabbath briefly reunites with Osbourne for a Live Aid concert
Butler re-joins Black Sabbath in 1991 for the reunion of the "Mob Rules" lineup.
Iommi, Butler, and Appice back Ozzy Osbourne as part of what is billed as the singer's final live appearance
Iommi and Butler rejoin Dio and drummer Vinny Appice to record Dehumanizer
Iommi and Butler rejoin Dio and drummer Vinny Appice to record Dehumanizer
Quits Black Sabbath after the Cross Purposes tour of 1994.
The original line up reunites with Osbourne and releases a live album, Reunion
"The Ozzman Cometh" is released. A double-CD retrospective of Ozzy's work, it includes previously unreleased rehearsal tapes of four classic Sabbath songs. The original line up reunites with Osbourne and releases a live album, Reunion
Two-CD set "Reunion" is released, featuring all four of Black Sabbath's original members (Iommi, Osbourne, Butler, Ward)
The early/mid 1980s line-up featuring Iommi, Butler, Dio, and Appice reform under the title, Heaven & Hell
The early/mid 1980s line-up featuring Iommi, Butler, Dio, and Appice reform under the title, Heaven & Hell
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