Black Sabbath is coming back together for one final performance at the Back To The Beginning festival on July 5th, 2025. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward will play for the first time together in 20 years. The festival takes place at Villa Park in Birmingham, UK.
The all-star event will be a celebration of heavy metal in the birthplace of the genre. It’ll see Ozzy Osbourne play a short set of his solo material before joining Black Sabbath for his final bow.
Here’s what Ozzy had to say about the concert.
“It’s my time to go Back to the Beginning….time for me to give back to the place where I was born. How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham Forever.”
Formed in Birmingham in 1968 and going on to become one of most successful metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath have sold over 75 million albums worldwide across their legendary career. Setting the blueprint for the many routes heavy metal took, Black Sabbath’s influence and importance is as vital today as it was in the early 1970s.
Who Else Is Playing At Back To The Beginning?
Back to the Beginning will also feature sets from Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice In Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax, and Mastodon. The all-day event will also feature a supergroup of musicians including Billy Corgan, David Draiman, Duff McKagan, Slash, Frank Bello, Fred Durst, Jake E. Lee, Jonathan Davis, KK Downing, Lzzy Hale, Mike Bordin, Rudy Sarzo, Sammy Hagar, Scott Ian, Sleep Token ii, Papa V Perpetua, Tom Morello, Wolfgang Van Halen, and Zakk Wylde.
More names will be announced shortly.
Tickets for the show go on sale at 10am GMT on Friday February 14th, 2025 at Live Nation UK.
All profits will go to the following charities: CureParkinson’s, Birmingham Childrens Hospital and Acorn Childrens Hospice, a Children’s Hospice supported by Aston Villa.
Black Sabbath went on a final world tour that ended in 2017 but that tour didn’t feature Bill Ward on drums. This will be the first time in over 20 years that the original lineup of the band will play together. Ozzy Osbourne was originally supposed to play at the Power Trip festival in 2023, but had to drop out due to health issues.
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