The film of the Villa Park farewell arrives on 4K, Blu-ray, CD, vinyl and digital. The deluxe box set, with all thirty-five Osbourne and Black Sabbath songs played that day, won’t follow until April 2027.
Black Sabbath, the Birmingham band formed in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, with a final concert by the original lineup at Villa Park in 2025.
Jørn Lande came in for “maybe a song or two” and ends up singing and co-writing all eight. The only guest left is Brian May, with a solo on “Death Wake”.
The Norwegian says the first track he cut was “Beyond The Dead”, and that it was after the second that Iommi dropped the guest-singer plan. “From The Dark” is out this Friday.
The Mercyful Fate bassist says she got an email from Iommi’s manager and assumed it was fake. The one who put her forward was producer Mike Exeter, who had been following her cover videos.
Rockstar Games has unveiled The Chamber, at 106.6 on the Leonida dial, with the two Slayer men as DJ Tom and DJ Kerry. The game is out on 19 November.
Jack Sabbath opened with “Mr. Crowley” and “The Wizard”, with the sons of Tom Morello and Scott Ian on guitar and bass. Butler came out for the third.
The Black Sabbath guitarist received the honour on 30 September at an investiture at Windsor Castle, for services to music and to charity.
Nineteen unheard demos and fourteen unreleased studio recordings, forty-two non-album tracks and two concerts, one of them at the Hollywood Bowl and still unissued. Out on 13 November.
Eight tracks on BMG, with Jørn Lande singing and co-writing every one of them, Becky Baldwin on bass and Karl Brazil on drums. It’s Iommi’s first record of his own since 2005’s “Fused”.
Kevin Starrs’s seventh album, out on 18 September through Killer Candy Records after years on Rise Above. The plot comes from Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”.
The film of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s Villa Park farewell show, with Metallica, Guns N’ Roses and more, gets a limited cinema run.
Iommi tells Classic Rock he passed on producer Andrew Watt’s pitch for one more Sabbath album after «13» (2013).
Black Sabbath’s original drummer tells Drum Talk TV about a near-finished, genre-blurring new record and two or three more waiting behind it.
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