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Black Sabbath is credited with being nothing in need of pioneers within the metallic motion. For the primary time in practically 20 years, legendary frontman Ozzy Osbourne took the stage, together with bassist Geezer Butler, drummer Invoice Ward, and guitarist Tony Iommi.
“It’s my time to go ‘Again To The Starting’… time for me to offer again to the place the place I used to be born,” Ozzy mentioned in a press release, per Billboard. “How blessed am I to do it with the assistance of individuals whom I really like. Birmingham is the true dwelling of metallic. Birmingham Ceaselessly.” Added music director Tom Morello in a press release through Instagram, “This would be the best heavy metallic present ever.”
The time period “heavy metallic,” by the way, didn’t come from Black Sabbath. “We known as it heavy rock,” Tony informed BBC News in a 2017 interview. “The time period heavy metallic happened from a journalist once I got here again from America (within the Nineteen Seventies). “He mentioned ‘you’re taking part in heavy metallic’ and I mentioned ‘no, it’s heavy rock – what’s that?’”
Beneath, we’ve acquired a breakdown of the band’s remaining present.
When Was Black Sabbath’s Remaining Present?
The all-day occasion occurred on July 5, 2025, at Villa Park in Birmingham, England — the band’s hometown.
Who Else Carried out with Black Sabbath in Villa Park?
The farewell celebration will quantity to a pageant of a few of metallic’s most iconic bands. Together with Black Sabbath, followers will see units from Metallica, Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Mastodon, Slayer, Gojira, Pantera, Lamb of God, and Halestorm. Artists together with Billy Corgan, Slash, Tom Morello, Wolfgang Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Fred Durst, Jake E. Lee, and extra will even be part of the lineup. And that’s only the start — in accordance with the band’s Instagram announcement, “extra names can be introduced shortly.”
When Did Black Sabbath Tickets Go on Sale?
Ticket gross sales opened up at 10 AM GMT (Greenwich Time) on February 14, 2025. All earnings from the large day-long rock occasion are going to Remedy Parkinsons, Acorn Kids’s Hospice, and Birmingham Kids’s Hospital.