A full -day Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne celebration began in Birmingham on Saturday (5), with tens of thousands of fans waiting for what the heavy metal legends said they will be yours Last live presentation together.
Almost six decades after helping to create Heavy Metal’s pioneering song with a homonymous song that enchanted and scared the audience, Black Sabbath is ready to return to his home in Aston to “” Villa Park Stadium.
More than a dozen artists, including Metallica, Slayer, Tool and Guns N ‘Roses, will also perform to a sea of black t -shirt fans, with a mix of their own songs and interpretations of Black Sabbath numbers.
Atlanta, Mastodon rockers, began music, followed by Anthrax, Halestorm and Lamb of God. Black Sabbath should take the stage later.
The unique show, whose profits will be destined for charity, was announced as Osbourne’s last performance, five years after the 76 -year -old “Prince of Darkness” revealed that he suffered from Parkinson’s evil.
“The goal is very simple: creating the largest day in the history of Heavy Metal as a greeting to the band that started everything,” Tom Morello, a member of Rage Against The Machine and music director, told Metal Hammer magazine.
The show will bring together Sabbath’s original formation, with bassist Geezer Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward and vocalist Osbourne, for the first time in 20 years.
Runo Gokdemir, a London teacher, said he sold a car for 400 pounds (about $ 3,000) to pay the ticket.
“I love Ozzy so much,” he told Reuters. “When I went through difficult times in my teens, I heard Black Sabbath, and Ozzy helped me overcome a lot.”
Lisa Meyer, who organized an exhibition of Black Sabbath in Birmingham in 2019, said the band built a lasting legacy by offering a heavier alternative to Beatlemania and the 1960s hippie music.
“That’s what really reverberated among fans, giving voice to this anger, anger and frustration, but doing it in a really cathartic way,” Meyer, co-founder of the Home of Metal project, told Reuters.
Sabbath’s murals and tracks appeared throughout the city in central England, whose factories were one of the influences for the band’s heavy sound, with tall and distorted guitars and aggressive vocals.
This Saturday’s extravagance also includes presentations by Pantera, Gojira, Alice in Chains and Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst.
