Black Sabbath Final Show Confirmed for November

Posted by RiffYou On March 23, 2015 0 Comment

Via a video published to promote Ozzfest Japan 2015, Sharon Osbourne has confirmed that the Black Sabbath performance on November 22 will be the band’s “farewell.”

“Ozzfest will be back in Japan on November 21st and 22nd. And this will be Black Sabbath’s farewell,” said Osbourne. “We’re also announcing Korn, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary. Now you can’t miss that.”

During an interview last autumn with Metal Hammer, Ozzy Osbourne stated that Black Sabbath would likely call it a day following one more album and tour.

“The whole Sabbath experience this time around was great,” said Osbourne when commenting on the band’s well-received 2013 album, 13. “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,” he continued. “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 it 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.”

Right now it is unclear if a final Black Sabbath album will be in the cards , or if the band will be satisfied walking away after whichever tour dates they book in 2015. We shall see.