The legendary Black Sabbath They have announced that they say goodbye, this time yes, with a last concert in Birmingham that will have beneficial purposes and in which they are going to throw the house out the window, riding a whole festival with the support of metal icons like Metallica, Slayer and Panther, among others.
On July 5, the original and most emblematic formation of the band, with singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward, will meet for the first time in two decades in the Villa Park of the city that saw her born in 1968.
The news of the last live concert, baptized as ‘Back to the beginning’has been announced this Wednesday, February 5 at the Aston Villa Soccer Stadium by Tony Iommi and Sharon Osbourne, manager and wife of the iconic Frontman. “It’s my time to go ‘Back to the Beginning’ (back to origin) … It’s my time to return something to the place where I was born,” said Ozzy in a statement. «How blessed am I to do it with the help of the people I want? Birmingham is the real home of metal. Birmingham forever ».
In addition to the performances of the metal pioneers with the classical formation, and from another section starring Ozzy Osbourne alone, the event will feature other icons of the scene. This includes performances of the legends of the Thrash Metalica, Slayer and Anthrax, as well as other heavyweights of metal such as Panther, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Alice in Chains, Halestorm and recent Grammy winners for the best metal performance, French Gojira.
They will also participate in the event Billy Corgan, leader of Smashing Pumpkins, David Draiman de disturbed, Duff McKagan and Slash of Guns N ‘Roses, Frank Bello and Scott Ian de Anthrax, Fred Dard Dust of Clean Bizkit, Sammy Hagar, Pope V Perpetual of Ghost , Wolfgang Van Halen, Zakk Wylde, Jonathan Davis de Korn, Lizzy Hale de Halestorm, Sleep Token II of Sleep Token, Kk Downing (former Judas Priest), Jake E Lee, Mike Bordin de Faith No More and Rudy Sarzo.
The soloist and former guitarist of Rage Against The Machine Tom Morello He will also participate in the event and act as a musical director. In a new statement, he describes this summit of legends as “the greatest Heavy Metal show in history.”
Tickets will go on sale next Friday, February 14 at 10 am GMT, and all benefits will go to charity organizations Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorn Children’s Hospice, a child hospice that has the support of the support of the Aston Villa.
Despite having announced his withdrawal in 2023, last year Osbourne declared that “she would take the opportunity” to play a last Black Sabbath concert with the Bill Ward co -founder drummer, and Butler hinted that he and Osbourne had “agreed” to play one last last time together.
The news has run like gunpowder between the forums of hard rock and metal lovers, and there are hundreds of users ensuring in networks that will make whatever it takes to attend the festival. Others, however, point out that from Julio many things can happen with the health of Tony Iommi, which is something delicate after successfully overcoming a lymphoma, and especially from Ozzy Osbourne, which in recent times has forced him to cancel numerous concerts.
«First it was an infection in my hand, then I took pneumonia, then I had the fall, and then the operation. Now I have many more nuts and screws in my neck than in my car. I am going crazy, ”he confessed in 2020, in an interview in which he also added that he suffered” incredible pain twenty -four hours a day, the seven days of the week, “for the strong sequels left by the complex operation to the that had to submit the previous year.
His decline accelerated in 2019, due to a fall he suffered in his home in Los Angeles while he went to the bathroom in the middle of the night. The blow aggravated the neck injury that was made in 2003 in a Quad accident, and that affected him “behind his back, neck and shoulders, where the metal bars they had put me,” the artist revealed.
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