Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering singer of pioneering proto-metal group Black Sabbath, has passed on to the great mountain of weed, cocaine, booze, LSD, metal, and good times in the sky.
Terence “Geezer” Butler says he is “so glad” he was able to perform a final time with bandmate Ozzy Osbourne – referring to the band’s reunion on July 5 at Villa Park in Birmingham.
In a social media post, Butler writes: “Goodbye dear friend – thanks for all those years- we had some great fun. Four kids from Aston- who’d have thought, eh?
“So glad we got to do it one last time, back in Aston. Love you.”
It was a long strange journey for those four kids from Aston (in Birmingham, England). As the story goes:
Raised in a working-class family in Birmingham, England, Osbourne dropped out of school at age 15 and held several low-paying jobs. He also engaged in petty crime and at 17 was imprisoned for two months for burglary. After his release, he sang in a number of local rock groups, eventually forming the rock band Earth with guitarist Tony Iommi. To avoid confusion with another band of the same name, the group changed its name to Black Sabbath—after an old Boris Karloff movie. The group developed a grinding, ominous sound, based on the blues but intensely amplified, and drew attention with its tendency to reference the occult in its lyrics. In February 1970 Black Sabbath released its eponymous first album and quickly developed a following in both Britain and the United States.
Black Sabbath released albums each year through the mid-1970s, except 1974. After the tour for Never Say Die (1978), Osbourne left the band.
By the end of the 1990s, Osbourne had reunited the original members of Black Sabbath for a new album and tour, and in 1999 the band won a Grammy for best metal performance for the song “Iron Man.” In 2013 Osbourne made his first studio record, 13, with Black Sabbath after a 35-year absence. “God Is Dead?,” a single from the recording, earned the band another Grammy for best metal performance.
We thank you for all you have done and wish you well on your future adventures.
Tags: black sabbath, Heavy Metal, ozzy osbourne, proto-metal
This one stings inevitable as it’s been for a while. Many thanks owed. Godspeed, Oz.
proto-metal? right… i guess it is my fault to keep falling into the baits…
*tap tap*
Pay attention, young man. Young man, are you paying attention? It is time to pay attention. You are in class and your textbook is open in front of you
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myopic, parochial sheep, you’re wrong. he is wrong.
He’s just a dilettante
I hope you are condemned to a lifespan of using Apple products
Which false narrative are you attempting? That it wasn’t proto-metal yet, or not proto-metal anymore?
Vale, Ozzman
Wow, what a year so far. RIP. Best song Believer. I just hope he evicted Christ from his heart before it was too late.
Ozzy Zig, Completed Gig.
Damn…….thats the most poignant, heartwarming thing I’ve read regarding Ozzy.
And here of all places. Salut
Ozzy got me into metal, and as far as I’m concerned every other gateway is false.
Any thoughts on that shit hole of a tribute concert? Wasn’t the money used to fund AIDS in Afrika?
The $$$ should be used to fund global eugenics starting in Africa.
I doubt global eugenics can exist; it is specific to ethnic groups and localities most likely. But a world purge of idiots would be welcome and the remaining four hundred million of us would have a good time.
Hi Brett, how do you come to that 400.000.000 number?
Also, I wanted to recommend you to look into Sam Vaknin in case you may not know about him. His area of focus is Narcissism (he suffers from the condition) but also has a lot of good insights and I think he is in the same “Politically Orphaned” state that you have described. He also tries to look at the best and the worst, trying to be realist to an extent. I recommend “The Idiocracy Bible: Stupidity for a New Age”, he has a YouTube channel and a fan run website with transcripts of the videos.
Another good one I recommend is Arthur Arcturus, he had a YouTube channel that he finally got deleted through wrong-think, a few of his better videos have been archived. Though he is more pessimist than realist most of the time.
More importantly Hulk Hogan died….
whats ozzy
Black Sabbath Back To The Beginning: The Final Show at Villa Park, Birmingham, UK (July 5, 2025) will be a day to live in infamy!
Is it because I am an old man, I thought a lot of it was boring, because when i think a band I don’t really like much, Pantera was good, something is wrong…
then there was that dickhead Rudy Sarzo playing instead of Bob Daisley : Bob wrote the bass parts for the first 3 albums, one of my fave albums of all time No Rest for the Wicked, and the cut-off point for many (if not before it) No More Tears (1991).
Die hard Ozzy fans know Daisley was screwed and kept swallowing his pride and going back as he needed money.
Ozzy looked like a wide-eyed, freaked out zombie/corpse, going through the motions of singing songs he has done a million times, so, it was not a surprise to hear he died.The guy did not look well. Watch that Final concert if you want to see a ghoul in action.
I’m glad Sabbath did the 1990s reunion shows and we got some new songs, but they should have let it die then.
By the way, Brett will find this amusing,
Lord Vic of Rampage used to say that all heavy metal bands owe their existence to Black Sabbath, it was some kind of Six degrees of separation theory he had.
“Where will you turn if it all goes wrong
And you’re on the run?
Jerusalem, ooh-ooh”
Sharon, arch Zionist shill, exploits metal for money. Ozzfest, Osbournes, “Final Gig,” then he dies. Man was milked. Actually the only “celebrity” I could imagine was “killed off” for the money. More likely than Jackson, Morrison, Elvis etc. I can definitely see Ozzy de-wigged sipping pina coladas on a private beach somewhere. “No, I’m Oswald de Oursdivin, Esquire, you’re simply mistaken.”