The godfathers of heavy metal, BLACK SABBATH, were handed platinum awards by Universal Canada on April 7th in Montreal, Quebec for sales of their 2013 reunion album, 13, (100,000 units) and their live DVD, Live... Gathered In Their Masses (10,000 units). A press conference with Ozzy Osbourne,Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler was also held on the day; footage can be viewed below:

Check out exclusive BraveWords photos by roaming photographer Mitch Lafon prior to their Montreal show at the Bell Centre.

Black Sabbath are in the midst of a string of Canadian dates this month and singer Ozzy Osbourne spoke with Jane Stevenson from TorontoSun.com to promote the shows.

“Black Sabbath has always had a big following, me as well, in Canada,” said Osbourne, pointing out that 1978’s Never Say Die! was recorded in Toronto.

“We lived there for about three or four months. We’d gone up the ladder of success, we’d found out the manager was ripping us off, and we had nobody to direct us. We lost our own direction ourselves. It was a pretty sad time. When we did the album 13 - if that was going to be the last album I ever did with Black Sabbath - it was okay because before in 1978 with Never Say Die! wasn’t a good time for me with Black Sabbath. So if we never do another thing together again, we ended on a better note. The only sad thing was that (65-year-old original Sabbath drummer) Bill Ward never played on it."

About making a follow-up to 13, Ozzy adds: "And all I can say is, ‘I never say never anymore.’ I don’t want to say, ‘Yeah, we’re never going to do another album,’ because if everybody agrees and we don’t take 500 years again to make another album, I’m up for it. I wouldn’t mind doing another Sabbath album.”

Read more at Torontosun.com.

Black sabbath launched the North American leg of their 13 tour at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY on Monday, March 31st. Check out some fan-filmed footage from the concert below.

Black Sabbath performed the following setlist:

'War Pigs'

'Into The Void'

'Under The Sun/Every Day Comes And Goes'

'Snowblind'

'Age Of Reason'

'Black Sabbath'

'Behind The Wall Of Sleep'

'N.I.B.'

'End Of The Beginning'

'Fairies Wear Boots'

'Rat Salad' (with 'Supernaut' + drum solo)

'Iron Man'

'God Is Dead?'

'Dirty Women'

'Children Of The Grave'

Encore:

'Paranoid'