Review: Black Sabbath - 13 (Beat)

Black Sabbath is rock music's greatest accident. Forty-four years ago John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne chanced upon Tony Iommi, hands disfigured in a factory, playing heavy blues to give hippies chills. I, along with countless others, feel eternally grateful for rock music's lapse of judgment. - See more at: http://www.beat.com.au/music/black-sabbath-13#sthash.RBgIF1GJ.dpuf

Black Sabbath is rock music's greatest accident. Forty-four years ago John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne chanced upon Tony Iommi, hands disfigured in a factory, playing heavy blues to give hippies chills. I, along with countless others, feel eternally grateful for rock music's lapse of judgment.

Read the rest at Beat.com.au.

Review: The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack (Metal As Fuck)

There's one bad thing and one great thing about The Black Dahlia Murder. They can't keep a line-up from wobbling out of orbit.

So is that the good thing? Or the bad thing?

Find out at Metal as Fuck.

Article: The Beards (Beat)

The Beards want you to grow a beard. Bassist Nathaniel Beard is the world's most outspoken beard advocate and he's been busy planting seeds in Europe's chins to spread global beard "revolution." Nathaniel Beard is quietly fuming underneath his luscious, double arrowhead beard. Chatting while he caught five spare minutes in London, he can still taste bitterness in and around his beard. Two Sundays ago, the band played the Bearded Theory festival, placed on the outskirts of Derby in the UK. The problem was that it lived up to its name. It was bearded only in theory.

Read more in Beat #1373 or online here.