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November 11, 2012
Singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bass player Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward told a news conference at legendary Sunset Strip club Whisky a Go Go on Friday they would perform at the Download Festival in England in June 2012, and then embark on a world tour.
The band, which first got together under the Black Sabbath name in 1969, said they were working on new material for the album for release in the fall of 2012.
There is no title as yet but it will be produced by Rick Rubin.
"It's now or never. We are getting along great. Everything's really good," Iommi told reporters at the club where Black Sabbath played their first show in Los Angeles exactly 41 years ago.
"It's like putting on an old glove. It's fantastic," Iommi added.
The four musicians, now all in their 60s, released their last studio album of all original material in 1978 with Never Say Never.
Rumors of a possible reunion of the English metal band, regarded as one of the pioneers of heavy metal with hits like "Iron Man" and "War Pigs," had been swirling for months.
"It's just time," Osbourne said, noting that the four had tried in the past to work together again. "This time, for some magical reason, we have written about seven or eight songs."
Nothing has been recorded yet and no dates were announced on Friday for the world tour.
The band also announced the launch of its first official website, Blacksabbath.com, and said it would be making its first foray into social media via Facebook and Twitter.
Frontman Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979, leading to a revolving line-up for a number of years.
The original foursome reunited for the 1998 release Reunion and played again together sporadically for shows in the early 2000s.
Black Sabbath was inducted to the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 and has sold more than 70 million albums worldwide.
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Sweet ! R.I.P Ronnie James Dio! Rest in Peace Bettie Boo. See u soon. | |
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It was quite inevitable the originals would reunite. Dio's gone (RIP) but this is good news. Wish them well. Love some Sabbath. | |
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Same here. I loved the Ozzy and Dio years of Sabbath. I was quite the metal head once upon a time. lol. | |
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Ooooooh can't wait!!!!!....yes R.I.P., Ronnie James! Whenever you say that you can't, that's when you need to be trying. | |
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I just hope they release a neo-traditional doom album
modern metal is cool for post-90s Ozzy but NOT for the Sabbath...
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Sabbath Reunion November 2011
The founding members of Black Sabbath took to the stage Friday at the Whisky A Go Go to announce another reunion tour in 2012, but this time is much different: The British heavy metal originators have begun working on an album of new material, their first since 1978.
"It’s now or never for us. We’re getting along great," said guitarist Tony Iommi, sitting beside singer Ozzy Osbourne, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward, all now in their early 60s. “We’ve got some music to play.”
As his wife, Sharon, watched from the balcony, Osbourne added, “It was just time. We couldn’t do it any earlier.”
Osbourne had long been the band member most doubtful that Sabbath could record new material to match its early classics such as "Iron Man" and "War Pigs."
"We tried, but it didn’t work," he said Friday. "This time, for some reason, we’ve written seven or eight songs that are really good. I’m not just saying it." "It really is back to the old Sabbath sound," Butler said. "We know this time it’s going to happen."
The album will be released next year through Vertigo/Universal Republic Records, accompanied by a worldwide arena tour, including a stop as a headliner on June 10 of the multiday Download Festival in England. Veteran producer Rick Rubin, who has worked with the likes of Metallica, Johnny Cash and the Beastie Boys, among many others, is working with the band on the album.
As for the live show, Iommi said the set list will be much more than the usual hour of hits the band has performed since its first reunion in 1997. "If you think we’ll be doing the same set as last time, it won’t be," Iommi said. At the news conference, Rubin predicted a "no-pressure situation" in the studio for the band. "I’ve been in the room while they’ve played, and they sound remarkably like Black Sabbath," he said. "It’s inspiring hearing what’s coming out."
Asked how Rubin — a multiple Grammy-winning producer of many genres — won the gig, Iommi smiled behind his Guy Fawkes goatee and joked, "He kept phoning us up every five minutes."
Osbourne added, "He was the obvious choice. He wanted to do it a long time ago."
The announcement at the Whisky was made on the same stage where the band made its Los Angeles-area debut in 1970. On Friday, the band members and Rubin all wore black, with symbolic poppies pinned to their chests in honor of Veterans Day in the U.S. and Armistice Day in Britain.
Drummer Bill Ward remembered that 41 years before, the band performed at the Whisky in white tuxes and "wrecked the place."
The rented outfits, which had become filthy, were all returned, except for Ward's. "They wouldn’t take it back," he said. "I’m now thinking of giving it to the Hall of ... something."
The band received an enthusiastic introduction from former Black Flag singer Henry Rollins, who spoke emphatically of Black Sabbath's impact on hard rock and generations of listeners. Rollins listed each of the band's albums, in order, without notes or teleprompter.
"I was a very alienated young person, and when I heard Black Sabbath, I realized my life had a soundtrack," remembered Rollins, now a solo artist and spoken-word performer. "These are records that keep on giving. I’m 50 damn years old, and I still listen to Black Sabbath as passionately and with as much interest as I ever did."
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