Black Sabbath: Not Dunzo After All?
When Sharon Osbourne announced in spectacular video fashion last month that Black Sabbath’s appearance later this year at Ozzfest Japan would be their “farewell,” I don’t think very many people believed it. Sharon is gonna run that ship into the ground until Ozzy is dead or physically incapable of performing — if you believe that he isn’t already. We’ve been through this whole Ozzy/Sabbath farewell thing for the better part of two decades now (anyone remember “No More Tours”?), and we’ve seen how this script plays out. Even if Sharon was being sincere, surely she meant farewell to Japan, not the entire world, and reveled in her ambiguity knowing full well the press it would generate. There’s also this bit: Ozzy said late last year that Sabbath would record one final album and tour in support of it.
And so: after all that hullabaloo, now it appears as if Black Sabbath won’t even be playing Ozzfest Japan at all.
A Facebook post appeared on Black Sabbath’s page last night announcing that the Brits will not be traveling to the land of the rising sun, although Ozzy’s solo band will be performing in their stead:
The question is: what happened? A contractual dispute between band members (there is precedent)? A health scare (hopefully not having to do with Tony Iommi’s much-publicized battle with cancer)? A million and one other possible reasons?
Who knows. But let’s get back to caring about bands who’ve made relevant music in the past twenty years. Hey, Minsk’s new album came out this week, anyone listened to it yet?
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