Guardian Music — August 1969: Number 17 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicIf there's one single event that pinpoints the birth of heavy metal's satanic image, it would be when a Birmingham band called Earth renamed themselves Black Sabbat... more info

ContactMusic — Ozzy Osbourne is to become an Earth Troll. The former Black Sabbath frontman - dubbed the 'Prince of Darkness' - will make a guest voiceover appearance in an episode of Disney Channel animation series 'Fish Hooks' as the beastly sea creature. E... more info

NME — Metal legend opens up in new documentary 'God Bless Ozzy Osbourne' more info

Metal Injection — Gus G. is taking a break from his lead guitar duties for the Ozzy Osbourne band to hit the road with his personal love, Firewind. The Greek metal machine will be taking out two very suitable openers on the road with them in Arsis and Nightrage. If yo... more info

Metalsucks — Red State Radio Rock reigned supreme once again last week on the increasingly meaningless Soundscam charts. Metal fans won’t find much to be happy about as none of the albums we highlighted last week charted, but there are some interesting stats ab... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — There's only two weeks left until the release of Green Lantern, which means only two more weeks to sit and wonder whether it's going to be awesome or awful. However, awesomeness or awfulness aside, it DOES look like it has some pretty snazzy special ... more info

Metalsucks — The prize for last week’s photo caption contest was a doozy; an Ozzy boxset including reissues of Diary of a Madman and Blizzard of Ozz on both CD and vinyl, plus a full-color book and other goodies. Too bad most of the comment submissions weren’... more info

DrownedInSound — There's something that underpins all teen rebellion. Whatever you do, it has to be something your parents don't like. Playing loud music is ideal. Extreme volume pisses everyone off, especially in the morning and late evening, but how does one really... more info

Metalsucks — We had to remove the photo for last week’s caption contest because some sour-puss pictured didn’t have a sense of humor about his bad life decisions and demanded we take it down. But for the 161 of you who commented before the photo was pulled yo... more info

Metal Injection — Now this is a killer giveaway! One lucky Ozzy junkie will soon be in possession of what you see above, a 30th Anniversary deluxe boxed set featuring remastered versions of Ozzy's first two landmark solo records, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a M... more info