NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Black Sabbath on 23 December 2022. Black Sabbath has been played on NTS over 300 times, featured on 252 episodes and was first played on 20 October 2013.

Black Sabbath was an English heavy metal band formed in Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as Black Sabbath (1970), Paranoid (1970) and Master of Reality (1971). The band had multiple line-up changes following Osbourne's departure in…