This guy really, really loves Black Sabbath which to be serious is what the band Heaven & Hell is about. Learned about him from the Heaven & Hell twitter account: http://twitter.com/hvnandhelllive

While the Ozzy lawsuit aimed at Iommi seems to be trying to make Ozzy part of the story it’s obvious that fans like this don’t care these days what the boys call themselves. Right now the band Heaven & Hell are cashing in on the Black Sabbath name, catalog and history.

And another Sabbath alumni vocalist Tony Martin is trying to do the same thing with his band named after Sabbath album: Headless Cross:

He continued, "So the idea is to commemorate 20 years since ‘Headless Cross’ and I can reveal that some of the songs have NEVER been done live before… like ‘Black Moon’… It’s a REALLY complex track, but we’re gonna bring it to the stage and show it off. Also, we’ve just left behind the anniversary of ‘Eternal Idol’, so there’s gonna be some more off that album too like ‘Born To Lose’.

Actually, Martin claims this wasn’t his idea, it was the promoter’s but hey, why not do this?  Good for them, I say. Ozzy should have made a new album with Sabbath during the Ozzfest years. I’d say the chance of that happening any time soon due to these new legal tangles is unlikely.

Now can we see Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan go out and form a band called Born Again please. In 9th grade if I’d known better I’d have been at that concert when they rolled through Green Bay, Wisconsin. Speaking of Deep Purple, here is a video of 1,683 people playing Smoke On the Water in Kansas City.

Sabbath with Tony Martin is an era which I haven’t listened to very much but will probably be buying those albums in the coming days as I liked the live version of Headless Cross performed in Brazil in 2008.

Sabbath fans, let’s just hope Ozzy doesn’t die from an ATV accident or anything else before one day the original Black Sabbath lineup can make one more new album together. Hey, the Eagles and Van Halen (sans Michael Anthony) got back together and did it, so why not Sabbath?

Heaven & Hell is playing at the WaMu theater in Seattle on Saturday August 8. Despite being a lukewarm fan of The Devil You Know there is no doubt these guys are a huge part of heavy metal history and I’d like to see them play the Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules stuff live.

Did this post make you go hmm?

Maybe Related Posts (plugin generated)

• Cashier power at Best Buy for Black Sabbath The Dio Years, go armed with web prices
• New Black Sabbath, er Heaven & Hell The Devil You Know
• Ozzy lets Black Rain fall in stores on May 22 on Epic records
• Original Black Sabbath lineup complete — with Ward on drums — for Ozzfest
• Zakk Wylde more involved with new Ozzy album
• Quartz reissue coming