India, July 23 -- Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne died on Tuesday morning at the age of 76. He was best known as the frontman of Black Sabbath, one of the most iconic heavy metal bands of all time. The late singer helped shape heavy metal as we know it today. Over the decades, he picked up a name that stuck almost as tightly as his stage presence, The Prince of Darkness.

Loudwire reports that the term Prince of Darkness goes way back. The Latin "princeps tenebrarum" appears in religious texts from as early as the 4th century and was later used by English poet John Milton in his epic Paradise Lost to refer to Satan.

But Ozzy Osbourne did not give himself that label. It took root in the early '70s, during Black Sabbath's rise. When the band wou...