Dogmatic

Producer Rick Rubin (Slayer, Audioslave, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System Of A Down) recently told Sunday Herald Associate Editor Alan Taylor that he was in Worcestershire, U.K. to work on a new Black Sabbath album. No further information is currently available.

As previously reported, Black Sabbath guitarist Tomy Iommi is currently working with ex-Deep Purple vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes on material for a new studio album, tentatively due next year on Sanctuary Records. Joining Iommi and Hughes during the recording sessions for the upcoming CD is ex-John Mellencamp drummer Kenny Aronoff.

With regards to the possibility of a new Black Sabbath album, Iommi recently told Rolling Stone magazine, “I’d like to think that we’ll be doing another album. With Black Sabbath, things just happen. We weren’t supposed to be doing the last Ozzfest, but we did.”

In other Sabbath related news, BBC News is reporting that a 12-string Fender guitar and gold and silver Black Sabbath discs have been stolen in a burglary at the home of Ozzy Osbourne’s manager Patrick Meehan.

They were taken in a break-in at outbuildings in Troy Lane, Edenbridge, Kent, Kent Police have revealed.

A gold and a silver disc since advertised on Internet auction site eBay were recovered from an address in Welling, police said on Thursday.

“Master of Reality”, “Paranoid” and “Volume 4″ are among those still missing.

The burglary took place some time between November 20 and December 4, police said.

The discs recovered were advertised on eBay at the beginning of December and had been bought in good faith from a boot fair in Essex.

Black Sabbath singer Ozzy grappled with a burglar who escaped with jewellery worth £2m from his own Buckinghamshire mansion in November.

A spokeswoman for Kent Police said there was no reason to link the two break-ins.

Officers are appealing for help in tracing the guitar and remaining gold and silver discs.