Ozzy Osbourne announces final Black Sabbath gig as band reunite for ‘greatest heavy metal show ever’ with HUGE line up

ROCK seasoned Ozzy Osbourne volition play his last EVER amusement this summer, amid his worsening conflict with Parkinson’s disease.

The euphony icon has announced helium volition instrumentality to the signifier 1 much clip with his set Black Sabbath for a homecoming amusement astatine Villa Park successful Birmingham, topping a star-studded bill.

Huge names from the satellite of dense metallic including Metallica and Slayer person besides joined the line-up to observe Ozzy’s unthinkable legacy, with proceeds from the performance going to charity.

The one-off gig connected July 5, called Back To The Beginning, is being dubbed “the top dense metallic amusement ever” and volition see Ozzy play a abbreviated set earlier reuniting with Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, and Bill Ward.

It volition beryllium the archetypal clip the archetypal line-up of Black Sabbath person performed unneurotic successful 20 years.

He has vowed it volition beryllium his last show owed to his conflict with Parkinson’s disease, which helium went nationalist with successful 2020.

Pantera, Gojira, Alice In Chains, Halestorm, Lamb Of God, Anthrax, and Mastodon volition besides play astatine the show, with profits being shared arsenic betwixt Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorn Children’s Hospice.

Ozzy said: “It’s my clip to spell Back to the Beginning….time for maine to springiness backmost to the spot wherever I was born.

“How blessed americium I to bash it with the assistance of radical whom I love. Birmingham is the existent location of metal. Birmingham Forever.”

Music Director, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello said: “This volition beryllium the top dense metallic amusement ever.”

Other stars who volition execute see Duff McKagan and Frank Bello from Anthrax, Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit and The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan.

Disturbed’s David Draiman, Jake E Lee and Jonathan Davis from Korn, Mike Bordin from Faith No More volition beryllium determination too.

And Slash, Wolfgang Van Halen, and Zakk Wylde implicit the existent line-up, with much expected to beryllium added.

Tickets for the amusement volition spell connected merchantability astatine 10am GMT connected Friday, February 14, astatine LiveNation.co.uk.

Speaking successful 2022, Ozzy said: “That’s the lone happening that reminds maine I’m getting older: things going incorrect and not moving anymore. But I inactive consciousness young astatine heart.

“I americium determined to get backmost connected stage, adjacent if I person to beryllium nailed to a committee and wheeled on.

“Survival is my legacy.”

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