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Sharon Osbourne revealed in a new interview one band that was left out of Back to the Beginning that she 'really wanted.' Continue reading…

At Saint Vitus, of course.

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Hardline Media will bring Death Angel to Australia to play Act III start to finish. It is the San Francisco Bay Area thrash band’s first visit in close to ten years. The band will also play a set of older thrash material.

Death Angel is regarded as a leader of thrash’s second wave in the 1980s and is counted among the genre’s “Big Eight”, alongside Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, Exodus and Overkill. After building an underground following with its first two albums, The Ultra-Violence (1987) and Frolic Through The Park (1988), the band signed with major label Geffen Records in 1989. Act III came out the next year.

The band is now one of the few survivors of the early 1980s Bay Area scene that changed heavy music. It is still putting out albums and touring, and it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance in 2020 for Humanicide, which very few thrash bands can say. The Australian run marks the 35th anniversary of Act III. Local fans have not seen the band since its 2018 Australian tour with Sepultura, so this is the first full headline outing in a while.

Discounted early bird tickets can be found here. On sale tickets will start on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 11 a.m.

A limited number of VIP meet and greet packages are also available. The VIP ticket includes entry to the show, plus:

• Meet and greet and photo opportunity with Death Angel
• VIP laminate and lanyard
• A complimentary Australian tour poster to get signed
• Up to three additional items from your own collection to get signed by the band
• Early access to the merch stands and venue, with VIP guests asked to arrive at 5:45 p.m. for the 6 p.m. meet and greet

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The Ozzy Osbourne final show went ahead against the advice of six doctors who told the family it would kill him, Sharon Osbourne has revealed, and Ozzy’s answer was four words: ‘It’s what I want.’ He played Villa Park on July 5, 2025 and died seventeen days later.

Now Tony Iommi, who spoke to him the day before he died, says the loss has him thinking about his own death at 78: ‘I’m 78, how much longer?’ What’s next for the man who wrote the riffs is a solo album in ten days, no more Black Sabbath, and a conversation with Brian May that he says gets more dismal every time.

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‘They Said It Would Kill Him’: Sharon On The Doctors’ Warning

Sharon Osbourne told Rolling Stone that after Ozzy was discharged from hospital in England, a team of specialists came to the house and advised the family not to do Back To The Beginning.

The run-up was worse than anyone outside the family knew. Ozzy, retired from touring since 2023 because of Parkinson’s disease and a run of other problems, had been in hospital in America before flying to England, then spent a week in hospital there. When he came home, the doctors came with him. ‘We had six different doctors and, like, a quarterback,’ Sharon said, specialists for his heart, his Parkinson’s and his lungs. Their verdict was unanimous. ‘They advised us not to do the show. They said it would kill him.’

Ozzy’s reply, as Sharon tells it: ‘It’s not an option. It’s what I want.’ He didn’t pretend not to understand the risk. ‘I know I’m dying,’ he told her. ‘If I miss a few months of my life, I want to go this way.’ And then the question she couldn’t answer: ‘Another six months, what’s it going to do for me?’

So the show happened: July 5, 2025, Villa Park, a mile from where he grew up in Aston, with Metallica, Slayer, Guns N’ Roses, Tool, Gojira and Mastodon on the bill and Tom Morello directing it. Ozzy sang from a throne. Sharon says he was ‘very, very emotional’ on the day, and that the day itself was ‘beautiful’ and ‘amazing’. Her summary is the line that will outlive the interview: ‘I say he went out like a Viking.’

Seventeen Days

Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22, 2025, seventeen days after Back To The Beginning, at 76.

Nobody in the family has said the show caused it, and Sharon doesn’t say so now. What she’s saying is narrower and harder: that they were told it might, that Ozzy heard the warning, and that he chose the stage over the months. The city of Birmingham has since made July 22 Ozzy Day, and the family has been grieving in public ever since, Kelly most visibly; her account of the last year came out this week too.

The documentary of the night, Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning, gets a limited cinema release on October 28, and Sharon says every artist who performed is in it. Watching it now, knowing what the doctors said that week, is going to be a different experience from the one anyone planned.

Iommi: ‘I’m 78, How Much Longer?’

Tony Iommi told The Telegraph that Ozzy’s death has made him think about his own mortality ‘a lot’, and that he last spoke to Ozzy on July 21, the day before he died.

Asked directly whether the loss had reminded him of his own age, Iommi didn’t soften it. ‘Yes, it does. A lot.’ He’s lost several friends in recent years and talks about it with Brian May, who turned 79 in July; the two of them, he says, compare notes, and ‘he’s more dismal than me.’ Iommi himself has been living with a cancer diagnosis since 2012, which makes the arithmetic less abstract than it sounds.

The last conversation is the detail that stays with you. On July 21, Ozzy told him he was ‘really tired’ and ‘absolutely shattered’. Iommi told him it had been a tough few weeks and that he should rest. Ozzy said he’d try. The next day the phone rang. ‘It was weird,’ Iommi says, which from a man who has spent sixty years choosing his words carefully means something closer to unbearable. ‘He was a part of my life for 60 years. I do miss him.’

No More Sabbath, And A Solo Album Instead

Iommi has shut the door on a final Black Sabbath record and is releasing his own album, From The Dark, on October 23.

Last week producer Andrew Watt claimed that Iommi, Ozzy and Geezer Butler had wanted one more album with the original lineup in the early 2020s, and that it fell apart because Bill Ward couldn’t commit. Iommi’s version, given to Classic Rock, is cooler: Watt ‘was very keen and a bit too excited’ and ‘didn’t know what it was like working with the original Sabbath’. After 13, Iommi says, he ‘didn’t like the idea’ of another one. We covered the album that died in an email when Watt’s story broke; this is the other side of it, and it’s the one that counts.

What he’s doing instead is From The Dark, out October 23 on BMG, previewed by ‘World Alone’ and ‘Stormwatcher’, with May among the guests. It’s the first time Iommi has fronted a record under his own name since Fused in 2005, and it arrives five days before the documentary. The man who kept Sabbath alive after Ozzy left the first time isn’t going to do it again. He’s going to do this.

What The Two Interviews Say Together

One man chose the show over the months; the other is counting the months and choosing the work.

That’s the whole story, and it’s not a sad one, or not only. Ozzy asked what six more months would do for him and decided the answer was less than one night at Villa Park. You can argue with the decision; you can’t argue it wasn’t his. Iommi’s answer to the same question is a record, which is the only answer he’s ever had. Sabbath’s catalogue is finished, Ozzy’s is finished, and the last guitarist standing is putting out new songs in October at 78. Viking is Sharon’s word. It fits both of them.

TL;DR

• Sharon Osbourne told Rolling Stone that six doctors advised the family not to do Back To The Beginning: ‘They said it would kill him.’ Ozzy’s reply: ‘It’s not an option. It’s what I want.’
• Ozzy played Villa Park on July 5, 2025 and died on July 22, seventeen days later, aged 76. Sharon: ‘I say he went out like a Viking.’
• Tony Iommi told The Telegraph that Ozzy’s death has made him think about his own mortality ‘a lot’; he’s 78 and last spoke to Ozzy on July 21, when Ozzy said he was ‘absolutely shattered’.
• Iommi has dismissed a final Sabbath album; his solo record From The Dark is out October 23, and the Back To The Beginning documentary opens in cinemas October 28.

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