The band toured throughout the Midwest during the early 1980s. On February 5, 1983, the band recorded Trouble Live in Chicago . Drummer Jeff Olson mailed the cassette to Brian Slagel of Metal Blade Records and the band landed their first record deal. Trouble released their eponymous debut (later referred…
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The band broke up in the late 1980s and Wino went west to California to join up with Saint Vitus . Wino recorded three albums, an EP, and a live album with Saint Vitus. Around 1989, the Obsessed reformed and signed to Hellhound Records (Vitus’s then current label), which released…
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with Butler returning to the band in January 1980 and Nicholls moving to keyboards.
Butler temporarily left the band in September 1979 to deal with the divorce from his first wife.
Ward, who was close with Osbourne, was chosen by Iommi to break the news to the singer on 27 April 1979.
Iommi made the decision to fire Osbourne in 1979.
The band spent five months at Sounds Interchange Studios in Toronto , Ontario, Canada, writing and recording what would become Never Say Die! . “It took quite a long time”, Iommi said. “We were getting really drugged out, doing a lot of dope. We’d go down to the sessions, and…
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The band filmed a performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in June 1978, which was later released on DVD as Never Say Die .
Touring in support of Never Say Die! began in May 1978 with openers Van Halen .
On 8 January 1978, Walker made his only live performance with Black Sabbath, on vocals, when they played an excerpt of ” War Pigs ” and an early version of “Junior’s Eyes” on the BBC West Midlands Television programme Look! Hear!