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Metal's grasp of fonts managed to be both wildly inventive and easy to replicate on clothing, and continues to regularly crop up in modern graphic design Arctic Monkeys' new logo appears to be a straight lift from Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality album.

Home Of Metal: a history of the heavy in seven objects 2011

I keep Sabbath's Theater (1995) by my desk along with Coetzee and Hollinghurst to remind myself what the modern novel is capable of, and it's the book I most often give as a gift – especially if the person in question claims they liked, say, On Chesil Beach.

Nemesis by Philip Roth Edward Docx 2010

Yet there are still readers who can only see the frivolity -- that is the comedy, as savage as it can sometimes become -- and the excesses -- Roth's frequently freewheeling style -- and who regard books like Sabbath's Theater and Operation Shylock as fundamentally not serious, as irresponsible treatments of subjects that ought to be treated in a grim and sober way.

Style in Fiction 2009

Created by former LucasArts adventure vet Tim Schafer (Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango) and starring Jack Black alongside a league of metal legends (Judas Priest's Rob Halford, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, Lita Ford, and, of course, Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne), the studio's open-world/driving/lite real-time-strategy opus is every medieval-apocalypse album cover brought to glorious life, finally fulfilling the wishes of two generations of disaffected patched-jean-jacketed and notebook-cover-doodling Hessians.

Boing Boing 2009

"We played one song: two lines from Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man' repeated over and over against a wall of feedback," Kelley said of an early concert at a comic-book convention.

How Will the Future Judge Him? Richard B. Woodward 2012

The 90s saw titles like Sabbath's Theatre and The Shipping News share space with the likes of Cold Mountain.

Historical Fiction 2010

Instead a roadie emerged to sing a ramshackle version of Black Sabbath's Iron Man.

The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011

True to Shatner's cover song fetish, classic metal covers such as Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," Foo Fighters' "Learn to Fly," David Bowie's "Space Oddity," and a spoken word version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" are rumored to be on the album.

William Shatner releases metal album; Shatner's greatest hits Elizabeth Flock 2011

First point of call: Birmingham's Museum and Art Gallery which this summer has a huge exhibition of all things metal, from Black Sabbath's legendary Mob Rules stage cross to handwritten Napalm Death lyrics 6 June-25 September, Chamberlain Square, bmag.org.uk.

Insider's guide to musical pilgrimages: Indie, shoe gaze, grunge, metal 2011

Black Sabbath's antics are hardly a model for how to build a thriving business.

George Osborne's Economic Sabotage 2010