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
41 Responses
I hope Bill Ward is and has everything to do with a new cd! And gets paid equally Sharon you bitch!! I know you had a lot to do with all the great music that has come out of Ozzy but stay out of this one if you can!! Have you ever heard of bills first solo effort called Ward one?? Great great cd!! JAMS!!
Sharon will probably ruin and not pay Bill Ward, The fan turnout out sounded great on the 13 tour.
I gave 13 a good try and never got into it. We used to do Paranoid and that was basically the only Sabbath song I liked until Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules. I love those albums to this day. I also love Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of A Madman, but not Speak of the Devil where he’s back doing Sabbath stuff. Maybe I’m in the minority, but I love the Dio Sabbath years and the Ozzy early solo years.
If Bill can play on the studio album, that would be great..
Awesome! Cant wait!!!!!!!!!
ps-to have Ward on the record or tour would make it really super special!