Black Sabbath makes a comeback, and it seems to be the last of the hevimetal stone leg

”Black Sabbath is always timely, ”I wrote maybe twenty years ago in a press story.

In the world of heavy rock and metal, Black Sabbath has been like a stone base in a tall house. On top of it, everything else is built and on it we all live in the metal world.

In 1968 The title album of the founded Black Sabbath from 1970 has been considered the first release of heavy metal.

The band’s members were young Birmingham dunks who played blues, but slower and heavier than others. The music was gloomy. Words were a murmur of the lost soul or stories about the gloomy world. The verses testified Ozzy Osbourne with a vigorous, suitably ominous voice, which is one of the most recognizable tenors in metal music.

The band’s characteristic heavy sound was born in part because the guitarist Tony Iommi had lost a piece of his two fingers and therefore had to create his own playing style. For decades, numerous doom metal guitarists have since met the same deep softness.

More than 75 million records have been sold.

From the album, the expression of Black Sabbath expanded from the blues to many directions, maintaining a heavy and gloomy atmosphere.

Birmingham group Has done the last tours and concerts before. For example, in 2016, Black Sabbath also performed on The End in Helsinki.

Now the band’s original configuration will appear once more in Julyjust in Birmingham. The concert is suitably called Back to the Beginning. Singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward.

This seems to be really the last gig.

Even the singer Known as an effective business woman in Ozzy Osbourne Sharon Osbourne cannot prevent inevitable. Heavy’s great ghostly voice is dampening when the disease is taking. And other members of the band are no longer young.

The 76-year-old Osbourne, which has made the most successful solo career in metal music, has been plagued by many difficult diseases for years. In the name of his last tour in 2018, the taste of the finals was no more Tours II. However, it had to be largely canceled due to health problems.

Osbourne was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019. He fell and had to cut back and neck.

At the end of 2023 he said to the British Rolling Stone He wants to perform once again to thank their audience.

“I would like to be so good that I could do one gig and say ‘Hi to everyone, thank you a lot for my life’. I strive for that, and if I die at the end of it, I will die happy. ”

He complained in the interview that he could no longer stand straight. In the fall of 2022, he performed briefly twice in Birmingham and Los Angeles. He then used support while standing on stage.

Now he It seems to get the thanks to what they want, with their old band, in their old hometown. Its performers tell about the appreciation they enjoy.

The musical director of the concert on July 5 is Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave Guitarist Tom Morello. In addition to Black Sabbath, there are Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax and Mastodon.

Ozzy Osbourne presents a short solo set before Black Sabbath performs. Visitors are the Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan, Disturbedin David Draiman, Duff McKagan and Slash Guns’ n Roses, Frank Bello and Scott Ian From Anthrax, Limp Bizkit’s singer Fred Durst yes the grains Jonathan Davis.

It could be concluded that some of them sing some of the songs of Black Sabbath. If Ozzy can’t, others will help.

As long as heavy and metal are played and listened, Black Sabbath remains topical. But in July it is already possible to spend a funeral. It’s time for the last black Sabbath.