It’s been 43 years since Black Sabbath, the British rock band, which arguably spawned the entire heavy metal genre, first appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart. But this week it finally earned its first No. 1 album with “13,” selling 155,000 copies during the first week of release, Billboard reported. Released on Vertigo, “13” is the group’s first set of new songs with most of its original lineup — the singer Ozzy Osbourne, the guitarist Tony Iommi and the bassist Geezer Butler — since 1978’s “Never Say Die!” (The original drummer, Bill Ward, is not involved, because of contract disputes.) The only other Top 10 album the band has had in its many incarnations was 1971’s “Master of...
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