According to Bravewords.com, MEGADETH has uploaded behind-the-scenes footage from their concert on October 20th stop in San Jose, Costa Rica while on their Latin American Tour with BLACK SABBATH. For complete Megadeth tour dates visit Megadeth.com.
According to Bravewords.com, MEGADETH has uploaded behind-the-scenes footage from their concert on October 20th stop in San Jose, Costa Rica while on their Latin American Tour with BLACK SABBATH. For complete Megadeth tour dates visit Megadeth.com.
Bravewords.com issues: MEGADETH‘s official YouTube channel MegadethTV has posted highlights from their Brazil tour this month opening for BLACK SABBATH in Latin America:
Source: Bravewords.com
As previously reported, former BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward recently suffered a perforated diverticulitis and underwent surgery in California. The procedure was successful, and Ward is expected to make a full recovery over the next several weeks.
Ward’s former bandmate Tony Iommi has passed along the following well-wishes: “Sorry to hear you’ve been unwell hope you make a speedy recovery.”
Subsequently, Bill Ward’s artist reception on October 26 at the Annapolis Collection Gallery in Maryland has been postponed.
“I am truly sorry that I have to postpone the Absence Of Corners gallery reception (scheduled for October 26th),” said Ward. “The feedback I have received from everyone about this project has been astounding, and I was so looking forward to this event. I want to thank the Annapolis Collection Gallery for everything they are doing. I am honored that they are exhibiting my art, and I hope to get there to celebrate this collection with you all very soon.”
The gallery and Bill Ward have agreed to find another date in the future which will allow him time for a complete recovery.
Created over the last year, Ward’s collection Absence Of Corners is a highly limited release of fine art of epic size and conceptual. The collection, in its entirety is now available, along with audio commentary on each piece by Ward. Each piece can be reserved at BillWardDrumArt.com.
Source: Bravewords.com
The artist reception with former BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward on October 26 at the Annapolis Collection Gallery in Maryland is being postponed due to illness. Ward recently suffered a perforated diverticulitis and underwent surgery in California. The procedure was successful, and Ward is expected to make a full recovery over the next several weeks.
“I am truly sorry that I have to postpone the Absence Of Corners gallery reception (scheduled for October 26th),” said Ward. “The feedback I have received from everyone about this project has been astounding, and I was so looking forward to this event. I want to thank the Annapolis Collection Gallery for everything they are doing. I am honored that they are exhibiting my art, and I hope to get there to celebrate this collection with you all very soon.”

The gallery and Bill Ward have agreed to find another date in the future which will allow him time for a complete recovery.
Created over the last year, Ward’s collection Absence Of Corners is a highly limited release of fine art of epic size and conceptual. The collection, in its entirety is now available, along with audio commentary on each piece by Ward. Each piece can be reserved at BillWardDrumArt.com.
An extensive process from start to finish, Absence Of Corners took nearly a year to complete. Working with Los Angeles art team SceneFour, Ward utilized a sophisticated formula to create the collection’s visuals, using an array of drumsticks and rhythmic accessories that produce light, much like a painter utilizing brushes and oils. The movements featured within the captured rhythms are then studied and developed into abstract artwork that showcases a dimension not normally seen by the human eye. Each piece in this limited-edition collection is then numbered. All are signed by Ward.
Ward on the project: “When I’m working on new ideas, musically much of what’s played is guided by a visual appearance or shape. Since my early childhood, I’ve played drums in visuals as well as sound. When I write, there’s always an image, sometimes a color attached to what’s being created. I’ve never ‘listened’ to bass notes; I ‘feel’ them. The keyboard’s black notes are dark to me and represent many sad emotions. These examples are simple, natural, childlike applications that have stayed with me. When SceneFour approached me about doing this project, it sounded like an adventurous progression. I am delighted with the captured expressions from my head and my heart. Their arrival onto canvas is beautiful.”
To develop the art collection, Ward utilized the expertise of art team SceneFour. Based in Los Angeles, SceneFour specializes in working with music visionaries on the creation of fine artwork. SceneFour’s previous art collaborations have included releases with Chuck D, Bootsy Collins, Page Hamilton, and The RZA. Over the last several years, SceneFour’s focus has been on the development and publishing of rhythm on canvas collections, with Ward’s collection being the largest release to date with a total of 18 different pieces featured and ranging in size (30″ x 18″ to the epic 85″ x 30″).
Ward discusses the collection in the following video:
Source: Bravewords.com
BLACK SABBATH’s triumphant 2013 tour – which kicked off earlier this year in Australia – can now be seen by fans around the world via the forthcoming Black Sabbath: Live… Gathered In Their Masses (Vertigo/Republic).
Pre-orders for Black Sabbath: Live… Gathered In Their Masses are available now at BlackSabbath.com.
Black Sabbath: Live… Gathered In Their Masses tracklistings:
DVD / Blu-Ray:
‘War Pigs’
‘Into The Void’
‘Loner’
‘Snowblind’
‘Black Sabbath’
‘Behind The Wall Of Sleep’
‘N.I.B.’
‘Methademic’
‘Fairies Wear Boots’
‘Symptom Of The Universe’
‘Iron Man’
‘End Of The Beginning’
‘Children Of The Grave’
‘God Is Dead?’
‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ (Intro)/’Paranoid’

CD:
‘War Pigs’
‘Loner’
‘Black Sabbath’
‘Methademic’
‘N.I.B’
‘Iron Man’
‘End Of The Beginning’
‘Fairies Wear Boots’
‘God Is Dead?’
‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ (Intro)/’Paranoid’
Due out November 26th, Black Sabbath: Live… Gathered In Their Masses will be available via a variety of formats. Options include:
– DVD standalone
– Blu-ray standalone
– Blu-ray/CD combo pack with a CD featuring live audio from the show, all packaged in a Blu-ray case
– DVD/CD combo pack with a CD featuring live audio from the show, all packaged in an Amaray box
– Deluxe Box with a Blu-ray disc of live show with exclusive bonus visual extras/two DVD discs/a CD featuring live audio from the show/poster/signed set list/photo booklet/guitar picks/official show “ticket”
Black Sabbath: Live… Gathered In Their Masses was recorded April 29th and May 1st, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia when the band kicked off their world tour in support of their 13 album, which entered the charts at #1 in 13 countries (including their first #1 in the US). Meanwhile, Black Sabbath will head to South America and Mexico in October for a headlining stadium tour (where they’re expected to play to more than 300,000 fans) and then onto Europe in November and December.
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According to The Pulse Of Radio, an excerpt from Sharon Osbourne‘s new memoir that was published by U.K. tabloid The Sun over the weekend reveals just how ugly it got between her and Ozzy earlier this year when Sharon found out that her husband of 30 years had relapsed into drug and alcohol abuse.

Sharon writes that she found out about the BLACK SABBATH singer’s drug abuse on their 30th wedding anniversary when she saw texts on Ozzy‘s phone asking people to supply him with drugs and and saying, “Don’t tell the old girl.” Sharon confronted Ozzy and he promised to go to rehab, but ended up fleeing to the U.K. instead.
Sharon retaliated by selling off all of Ozzy‘s prized cars, recalling. “There was no way I was going to risk him getting in one of them while he was drunk and hurting someone . . . Ozzy says now that it proved to be the most expensive drink he’s ever had.”
When the couple reunited in Los Angeles a few weeks later, Ozzy was so “cocky and arrogant” that Sharon says she “snapped,” demanding a divorce and asking for 100,000 British pounds — around $162,000 — a month in spousal support.
Sharon writes that when Ozzy replied, “Over my dead body,” she threw a cup of coffee at his head, adding, “Then I grabbed him and pulled at his precious hair with one hand, while trying to yank off his jewelry with the other. He went for me, trying to grab me in a headlock.”
Ozzy told The Pulse Of Radio a while back that despite critics always saying that Sharon controlled his career and life, the truth was in fact the opposite: “My wife does not get involved with telling me about working. I tried retirement, it sucked. If I don’t want to do anything, my wife can’t make me do anything I don’t want to do.”
The estranged couple met up again in May after Ozzy had finally gone to rehab and was sober for two months. Sharon writes, “It seemed like forever since I’d looked into my husband’s eyes, but now I was looking into sober eyes. The man I loved was present. I could tell he was relieved to be sitting next to me. I put my hand on his, took him in my arms and we cried.”
The couple moved back in together in June.
Sharon‘s book, called “Unbreakable”, is due out this month.