| More than 30 years after the release of No More Tears, music fans will at last hear a new version of the album’s Hellraiser. The digital release of the album, due out September 17th (Sony), will include an updated version of the track featuring the first-ever official version of the song with a mash-up of vocals from Ozzy and the song’s co-writer, longtime friend and colleague Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead. Hellraiser originally appeared on No More Tears. Motörhead then recorded their own version and released it as a single from their 1992 March Ör Die album. Hellraiser was one of four songs from No More Tears co-written by Ozzy with Lemmy; the others are Mama, I’m Coming Home, Desire, and I Don’t Want to Change the World. |
| “I hope everyone enjoys the song,” Ozzy says. “This is just a small way to honor my friend Lemmy. Sharon and I talk a lot about how much we miss him.” |
| Beyond the digital version of No More Tears Osbourne’s sixth solo album went Top 10 (#7) and certified quadruple platinum–will also be highlighted with two special editions: a 2LP black vinyl version and a special yellow and red 2LP vinyl version with a specially created booklet (exclusively at towerrecords.com) Both configurations will be released simultaneously with the digital version. Pre-order the album here. |
| In its release, No More Tears yielded four top ten singles on the Billboard Rock Tracks chart, Mama, I’m Coming Home (#2), Road To Nowhere (#3), Time After Time (#6) and the title track (#10). In addition, the album’s “I Don’t Want to Change the World earned Ozzy his first Grammy for a live version of the track that was featured on his 1993 Live And Loud album. |
| The album has remained an Ozzy classic, earning a spot (#22) on Loudwire’s “Top 90 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the ’90s” with Ultimate Classic Rock including No More Tears on their list of “Top 100 ’90s Rock Albums.” |
To read more details about the No More Tears 30th anniversary digital and vinyl editions, please go here.
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I love lemmy , but not singing with ozzy on this glossy production , lemmy is awesome with raw production – not so overproduced and perfect , I did not like this version at all
Wow , that was cool .