METALLICA On OZZY OSBOURNE’s Loss of life: ‘We Are Heartbroken And Devastated By This Loss’

METALLICA has paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne after the BLACK SABBATH singer died earlier immediately on the age of 76.

The San Francisco Bay Space metallic legends took to their social media to write down: ” OZZY RIP. It is inconceivable to place into phrases what Ozzy Osbourne has meant to METALLICA. Hero, icon, pioneer, inspiration, mentor, and most of all, buddy are just a few that come to thoughts. Ozzy and Sharon believed in us and remodeled our lives and careers. He taught us the way to play within the large leagues whereas on the similar time being heat, welcoming, partaking, and throughout good.

“We’re heartbroken and devastated by this loss and ship our love and condolences to Sharon and their household, bandmates, and his very giant circle of buddies. He left an unbelievable legacy and might be sorely missed.”

Ozzy died Tuesday morning (July 22),his household introduced in an announcement.

“It’s with extra unhappiness than mere phrases can convey that we’ve got to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning. He was together with his household and surrounded by love. We ask everybody to respect our household privateness presently,” the household mentioned.

No reason for demise was given, however Osbourne had battled quite a lot of well being points over the previous a number of years, together with Parkinson’s illness and accidents he sustained from a late-night fall in 2019.

METALLICA performed a six-song set at BLACK SABBATH‘s “Again To The Starting” charity occasion on July 5. The San Francisco Bay Space metallic legends opened their efficiency with the SABBATH “Sabotage” basic “Gap In The Sky” and continued with two of their very own songs, “Creeping Loss of life” and “For Whom The Bell Tolls” earlier than returning to overlaying SABBATH with “Johnny Blade” off the latter’s “By no means Say Die!” album. METALLICA concluded its set by taking part in two extra of its basic songs: “Battery” and “Grasp Of Puppets”.

In a current interview with Heavy Consequence, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett said about his band’s look at “Again To The Starting”: “It is an actual alternative to say thanks to Ozzy and Tony [Iommi] and Geezer [Butler] and Invoice [Ward], ‘trigger they fricking wrote the e-book on the style. They developed it, they fleshed it out in order that we will use what they did as a stepping stone to different methods to do that.”

Hammett continued: “If it wasn’t for these 4 guys, man, we’d nonetheless be simply form of like wandering round at midnight. However the truth that they created a style — not solely created it, however then developed it and, and, after which turned it into like just a few various things over the course of their profession — is totally awe inspiring to me and my friends musically. I imply, how do you thank somebody like that? … I really feel fortunate and blessed that I am in a state of affairs the place I can really say thanks to the progenitors of a fricking style. I like these guys. I’ve love for them for what they did. And I simply need them to know that I am simply extraordinarily grateful, ‘trigger my life can be extraordinarily completely different in the event that they did not do what they did.”

Almost twenty years in the past, METALLICA frontman James Hetfield instructed Rolling Stone journal that he was shocked at how choked up he had gotten whereas honoring BLACK SABBATH on the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame induction ceremony in March 2006 on the Waldorf-Astoria Lodge in New York Metropolis. Hetfield — wearing black denims and a black shirt amid a sea of tuxedos — fought again tears as he recalled a younger James, 9 years outdated, stealing SABBATH data from his older brother. “These monstrous riffs lived inside him and spoke the emotions he might by no means put into phrases, sending chills of inspiration by way of him,” Hetfield mentioned. “They helped crack the shell he was caught in. Additionally, scaring his mother and sister was an additional bonus. And now, as the previous nine-year-old speaks to you right here, as an grownup musician — I do know these two phrases actually do not go collectively — I notice that with out their defining sound, there can be no METALLICA, particularly with one James Hetfield. By no means have I identified a extra timeless and influential band. They’ve unfold their great illness by way of generations of musicians. They’re at all times listed as an affect by heavy bands to today. They’re liked and extremely revered because the fathers of heavy music.”

Afterward, Hetfield instructed Rolling Stone, “It was like, ‘Oh, no, I’ll begin crying,'” he mentioned. “I might by no means identified it till I needed to entry all these feelings in entrance of that crowd, however it simply goes to point out how a lot SABBATH imply.”

Along with inducting SABBATH into the Rock Corridor, METALLICA carried out a medley of SABBATH songs (“Gap In The Sky” and “Iron Man”) through the ceremony.

In his induction speech, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich mentioned about BLACK SABBATH: “Invoice, Geezer, Ozzy and Tony, if it weren’t for you, we would not be right here. Clearly if there was no BLACK SABBATH, there can be no METALLICA. If there was no BLACK SABBATH, onerous rock and heavy metallic as we all know it immediately would look, sound and be formed very, very in another way. So if there was no BLACK SABBATH, I might presumably nonetheless be a morning newspaper supply boy — no enjoyable, no enjoyable. So thanks for assembly, thanks for figuring out one another, and thanks for forming a band.

“As one who has fought labeling at any alternative given, I hereby not solely acknowledge however scream from each fucking rooftop that BLACK SABBATH is and at all times might be synonymous with the time period ‘heavy metallic.’

“SABBATH be a part of what I take into account a really brief listing of artists who can declare to be synonymous with their particular style of music — one being Bob Marley with reggae, Bob Dylan with people, Johnny Money with nation, maybe Invoice Haley with rockabilly, however irrespective of the way you fucking slice and cube it, whenever you say ‘heavy metallic,’ the phrases BLACK SABBATH hover within the shadows preventing for pole place. On any given day, the heavy metallic style may as effectively be subtitled ‘music by-product of BLACK SABBATH.’ Certain, we’re all respectful to BLUE CHEER, we’re enamored with LED ZEPPELIN, we’re in awe of DEEP PURPLE and naturally admiring of STEPPENWOLF and John Kay‘s first uttering of the phrases ‘heavy metallic,’ however with regards to defining a style inside the world of heavy music, SABBATH stand alone. They took pre-existing parts of blues, rock and soul, threw in the correct quantity of darkness and avenue cred, and fused these parts with a beforehand undiscovered ‘X’ issue — regardless of the fuck that was — creating one thing unheard, unexperienced, distinctive and completely groundbreaking with their enormous hymns of doom. BLACK SABBATH are an entity of their very own — in my thoughts, the one phrase that matches is the phrase ‘pioneer.’ They had been, and way more importantly, nonetheless are thought-about pioneers of all issues heavy. All of the metallic bands and all of the so-called subgenres of metallic nonetheless hint their lineage to at least one place: 4 children of their late teenagers from the black nation of Birmingham who named their band after a 1963 Italian horror film starring Boris Karloff. Subsequently they modified onerous rock and by doing so your entire household tree of metallic and all the things that metallic, for higher or worse, stands for, was and might be ceaselessly each invigorated and elevated.”

Greater than 40,000 followers attended “Again To The Starting”, which additionally noticed performances from BLACK SABBATH, Ozzy Osbourne, GUNS N’ ROSES, SLAYER, PANTERA, LAMB OF GOD and ANTHRAX, amongst others. Earnings from the present might be shared equally between the charities Remedy Parkinson’s, Birmingham Youngsters’s Hospital and Acorn Youngsters’s Hospice.

The all-day occasion at Villa Park, produced by Reside Nation, was hosted and compered by American actor Jason Momoa, and featured a supergroup of musicians.

A livestream of the daylong occasion was introduced in June. Whereas it was known as a livestream, the video was delayed two hours from the in-arena begin time.