‘The biggest Heavy Metal Show ever’? Original Black Sabbath Setup for Reunion for Ozzy Osbourne’s Last Concert | Ozzy Osbourne

After being the original voice of Heavy Metal, several seizures of ill health and relieved different bats and pigeons of their heads, Ozzy Osbourne is to bring one of the great performance careers to end with a last concert: a reunion of The original black Sabbath lineup in their original Birmingham together for the first time in 20 years.

With the title back to the beginning, the charity stay in Villa Park will be held on July 5 with tickets for sale from 7 p.m. 10.00 on February 14th. The supporting set -up is a who is who of metal greatnesses, including Metallica, Slayer, Pantera and many more, and the concert’s musical director, Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine, promises: “This will be the biggest Heavy Metal show ever.”

It’s fantasy-fulfilling news for rock fans who didn’t dare to suspect that the original quartet of Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward would ever play back together, not only because of their total age of 303, but due to devastating relationship between them.

Black Sabbath, which has sold a reported 75 m albums around the world, will undoubtedly remain the most influential heavy rock band in history. Plays potent melody and psychedelic moods with crushing power, inspired partly by the industrial sounds of their native Birmingham, they shaped the whole style of heavy metal. Their first eight albums contained Osbourne and included Britain # 1 paranoid as well as classics such as Master of Reality and their self -tapped debut in 1970.

Osbourne traveled to a solo career in 1979, and various other vocalists then entered, including Rainbow’s Ronnie James Dio, Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan and Tony Martin before Osbourne was brought back in the fold in 1997.

The last time the original set -up was made on the Ozzfest Tour 2005, after which Ward left the group. He was later announced as part of the set -up for a tour and studio album in 2012, but left again before contributing to the admission, citing a contract disagreement. Osbourne bred him publicly and said that Ward was not playing thanks to shoulder surgery, writing on Facebook: “Depth that you knew you were unable to make the album and a 16-month tour. .. So how is all this my fault? Stop playing the victim and be honest with yourself and our fans. “

Their last album 13 was released in 2013 and had a rage against the machine’s drummer Brad Wilk filling to Ward.

Black Sabbath later announced an emphatic ending to their career, playing one last tour titled The End, which ended in Birmingham in February 2017. This time Tommy Clufeto’s drums played. But Osbourne said there was friction between himself and the other original members: “I spent nine or 10 years in Sabbath, but I had been away from them for over 30 years. With them I’m just a singer. With me I get to do what I want to do. I got bad vibber from them to be ozzy. I don’t know what the hell else can I be? “

He also said he missed Ward as part of the band. “I didn’t like the fact that Bill Ward wasn’t there … Tommy did well, but we four started this, and it should have been the four of us who ended it. These last performances in Birmingham were bittersweet because you are thinking about how far we got and how much we did and it would have been good to have shared it together. Maybe one day there will be one last concert I don’t know. “

It has now happened, with Osbourne, who said in a new statement: “It’s my time to go back to the beginning … Time for me to give back to the place where I was born. How blessed am I to do it with the help of people that I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham forever. “

The concert will include a short solo set from Osbourne before joining Black Sabbath. Other supporting bands are Gojira, Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of Good, Anthrax and Mastodon, while there will be special appearances from Smashing Pumpkins Frontman Billy Corgan, disturbed Frontmand David Draiman, Duff McKagan and Slash of Guns’ N Roses, Frank Bello Bello And Scott Ian from Anthrax, Halde Bizkits Fred Durst, Korn’s Jonathan Davis and several others.

Profits from the concert are shared between three charities: Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and the Birmingham-based Acorn’s Children’s Hospice.

It had looked like Osbourne’s performance career had already peted out in a rather less emphatic way. He first announced his retirement from filling back in 1992 with No More Tour Tour before turning his decision and later re-entering it without more trips 2 in 2019. He postponed the European dates due to illness, then in 2020 he announced, That he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

By 2022, he had extensive spinal cord surgery after a fall in 2019, which had worsened a previous quad cycle injury. A hope-for-2023 tour was canceled when he continued to recover, with Osbourne said, “Never would I have imagined that my touring days would have ended this way.” A one-time concert that year was announced, then also canceled.

His last performance will be at the home of Aston Villa, the football team based in the Aston area of ​​Birmingham, where Osbourne grew up before forming black Sabbath in 1968. Osbourne recently appeared in a video promoting the team’s 2024-25 season kit, and created an official T-shirt line with the club.

The city has long respected the group – even Birmingham Royal Ballet has hailed and created black Sabbath: Ballet in 2023, commissioned by Carlos Acosta.