Chaos, blood, death, resurrection – Kerry King and Tom Araya look back on the tumultuous journey of the thrash icons who pushed metal to new extremes

The Back To The Beginning show features the greatest metal bill ever assembled. Over the next 12 pages, some of the musicians appearing share just what Ozzy and Black Sabbath mean to them

In this exclusive roundtable interview, Sabbath superfans Lzzy Hale, Joe Duplantier, Brann Dailor and Randy Blythe bow down before the godfathers of metal

How Tom Morello pulled together the bill for the “greatest day in heavy metal history”

Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts

At Baileys nightclub in Leicester in 1975, Frank Worthington dressed up as Elvis Presley (below) and belted out the hits of the King of Rock ’n’ Roll. The iconic forward worshipped Elvis, and did his