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!
Slayer's 1986 thrash metal classic, Reign in Blood, was originally to be distributed by CBS. When the label refused to do so (citing the graphic nature of the material), Rick Rubin and his label, Def American, stepped in.