Black Sabbath announces ‘Final’ concert with Metallica, Slayer

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Black Sabbath has announced what is invoiced as the “Final” show of their original lineup – Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – an advantage entitled ‘Back to the Beginning’ in their hometown Birmingham, England, who finds Place on July 5 at the City Villa Park.

Also to appear in “Back to the beginning” will be Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halstorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of Good, Anthrax, Mastodon and a Super Group with Guns N ‘Roses’ Slash, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Korn’s Jonathan Davis, Limp Bizkits Fred Durst, Wolfgang van Halen and rages against the machine’s Tom Morello, who will also serve as a musical leader of the concert.

All profits from the show will be shared equally between Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorn Children’s Hospice.

It marks the original lineup for the first time in 20 years. Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, who has suffered a number of disorders that have caused him to cancel shows in recent years, will play his own short set before joining the black Sabbath for his last bow. While he and the band have announced their pension or last show several times in the past – Osbourne first “retired” in the early 1990s – watching his condition and the group’s age (everyone is 75 or 76 years old) seems to do this to the actual final.

“It’s my time to return to the beginning … Time for me to give back to the place where I was born,” Osbourne said in the announcement. “How blessed am I to do it with the help of people that I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham forever. ”

Morello added, “It will be the biggest Heavy Metal concert ever.”

Sabbath was formed in Birmingham in 1968 and is considered universally considered the godfathers of Heavy Metal and have sold more than 75 million albums around the world across their careers. Still, their influence far exceeds these record sales – almost every hard rock band since the 1970s bears their mark.

All profits will go to the following charities: Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorns Children’s Hospice, a children’s hospice supported by Aston Villa.