Four new biographies on the life of Black Sabbath are slated for release this year. The four books are titled "Doom Let Loose", "Rat Salad: Black Sabbath: The Classic Years 1969-1975", "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: The Battle for Black Sabbath."
Black Sabbath will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at the Twenty-First Annual Induction Ceremony in New York next March. There are plans to broadcast an edited version of the ceremony on VH-1. We'll keep you posted as the details come in!
Seattle supergroup Mad Season planned on issuing a follow-up album to its 1995 debut, Above, without singer Layne Staley. For reasons unknown, the sophomore effort never materialized.