Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath reunite, to play a concert on Birmingham funds on July 5.
The pioneers of Heavy Metal will be directed by a spectacular one-day festival in Villa Park, which will be on a dozen bands that have been inspired, including Metallica, Panther, Slayer, Gojira and Antrax.
The concert will be marked for the first time that the original line of Black Sabbath – Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – played together in 20 years.
Osbourne, who was mostly forced to stop touring because of the combination of Parkinson’s and spinal injuries, would play a short solo set before joining his colleagues.
His return to Villa Park was announced by wife Sharon and Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath.
Rage against the Morello Machine guitarist, who serves as a music director of the event, said it would be the “biggest heavy metal show ever”.
The exhibition revenues will support the Parkinson’s girls, a children’s hospital in Birmingham and the Acorn Children’s Hospice, a children’s hospice supported by Aston Villa.
Other works on the line include Alice in chains, halestrom, lambs of God and mastodon.
In addition, there will be a “supergroup” concert, with stars like Billy Corgan, Slash, Freda Durst, Wolfgang Van Halen and Tom Morella. Although not confirmed, it is probably that some visiting stars will fill for Osbourne during the Black Sabbath set.
The band, which was founded in Birmingham in 1968, had previously played a farewell show -sold out to a sold -out audience of 16,000 people in the City Arena 2017.
The set consisted mainly of songs from their early days – including war pigs, NIB and Black Saturday – before they ended up on their breakthrough hit and a signed song, Paranoid.
The concert came at the end of the extensive, 81th world tour, and Osbourne thanked the fans for supporting the band’s career.
“I have to tell you something, what kind of path we had,” he said.
“We started it in 1968, and now it is 2017. – I don’t believe it, man. But you know what? We wouldn’t have survived had it not been for a fan base. So if you are a veteran, great if you are new but I can’t tell you How grateful we are for your support.
After that concert, Osbourne released two solo albums – an ordinary man and patient number 9. However, he suffered a spine injury in 2019 after a collision involved in ATV, which required an extensive surgery.
In the same year, he was diagnosed with Parkinson and mostly departed from the tour after playing the COMMONWALTH 2022 Games ceremony.
However, Recently said Rolling Stone UK his wishes to return to the stage.
“I’m taking it one day, and if I can perform again, I will,” he said. “But it was like saying goodbye to the best relationships in my life.”
He added, “I will not get up there and do the half -conscious Omansan looking for sympathy. What is the (exp aff Withdent) point in that? I do not go there in the (explicit) wheelchair.”