Black Sabbath to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Black Sabbath will receive the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award next year, making heavy metal history as the genre's first band to ever receive the honor.

The Lifetime Achievement Award honors musicians who have "made outstanding contributions of artistic significance to the field of recording" in their careers. 

"From their power riffs to their dark, gothic imagery, Black Sabbath arguably invented the heavy metal signposts and influenced every heavy rock band that followed," wrote the Recording Academy in its announcement.

A special award presentation ceremony and concert for the honorees is set for May 1, 2019, in Los Angeles. More details on the ceremony are pending.

Joining Black Sabbath in receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award are George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, Billy Eckstine, Donny Hathaway, Julio Iglesias, Sam & Dave and Dionne Warwick.

Band co-founders Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler retired Black Sabbath in February of 2017 at the conclusion of the band's The End tour, celebrating its 49-year career and groundbreaking history.

Osbourne has since launched his own No More Tours farewell tour, while Butler recently announced his new project, Deadland Ritual, which features Matt Sorum, Steve Stevens and Franky Perez

Iommi has insisted that he plans on returning to music eventually, though he also suggested Black Sabbath could return for a swan song for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, the band's hometown. 

 

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