Black Sabbath are to record a final album together, Ozzy Osbourne has exclusively revealed to Metal Hammer.
The heavy metal legends will team up with producer Rick Rubin once again to record the follow-up to 2013’s hugely successful 13 album.
Speaking to Classic Rock at the end of 2013, Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler were hesitant about the possibility of making one final Sabbath album – “I don’t know if it would be the right thing to do,” Iommi admitted. “But who knows. The history of this band has taught me to never say never” – but frontman Ozzy now says that the band will begin work on the album next year.
“The whole Sabbath experience this time around was great,” says Ozzy. “We all made friends, we didn’t fuck around, we all knew that we had a job to do, and we did it. It was a lot of fun. So we’re going to do one more album, and a final tour. Once the dust settled after the last tour we started discussing the idea, because we were getting asked about it all the time. I said to Sharon ‘What’s going on? Because if there’s no more Sabbath I want to get on with my own thing again’ and she came back and said ‘Let me look into it.’ Three weeks later I asked her about it again, and she said ‘Oh, I still have to talk to so and so…’ and I said ‘Sharon, I ain’t fucking 21 any more, if we’re going to do I want to do it before I’m 70!’ Time isn’t on our side! So she made the call and came back and said ‘Yeah, the record company wants another album.’ I believe Rick Rubin is going to do it with us again.”
Although the trio have no new material written for what will be their fourteenth studio album, Osbourne anticipates that sessions will begin early in 2015.
“It’ll be sooner rather than later,” the singer insists. “Obviously a lot of it is coming down to Tony’s health, he’s obviously got his cancer treatment, but we’ll get onto it next year. I don’t know if we’ll be writing in England or LA, but I’ll fly to the fucking moon for it if I have to!”
source: metalhammer.teamrock.com
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I think they showed how good they still are, writing and playing live from the last tour and album…I would love to seen Ward play on a few tracks or even the entire album, but I think touring is out of the question for him. If he can’t, Brad Wilk did an amazing job on 13. Just so glad to hear they are going to be back with more new music…hope Geezer and Tony agree with Ozzy…
Clufetos was PHENOMENAL live….I was blown away by just how good he was/is!!
Saw him drum for Ozzy on his last tour, before the reunion. He was incredible.
Just a thought–“Heaven and Hell” with Dio is better than anything done by the original lineup. Ozzy was better solo than with Sabbath–especially with Randy Rhoads. There, I said it.
And you Iron(y) man speak the truth!!!! Never liked any Sabbath but the Dio music and RR would have been the monarch that all guitar heros wanted to be!!!!
If it’ll be the final album and final tour then they need to get Bill back. The four of them started Sabbath together and therefore it’s only fitting that they end it together.
Bring back Bill or I ain’t buying this one either.
I wonder if Tony and Geezer asked there wives if there would be another album? I know she’s his manager , but don’t you think he should know if there’s going to be another album? She’s to involved and it makes him look bad. I’m henpecked myself but I’m not the Prince of Darkness