Black Sabbathilta uusi levy
Black Sabbathin laulaja Ozzy Osbourne on paljastanut Metal Hammerille, että yhtye aikoo tehdä vielä yhden levyn ja soittaa vielä yhden viimeisen kiertueen. Viime vuonna julkaistu ”13” oli ensimmäinen Black Sabbath -levy 18 vuoteen ja 35 vuoteen ensimmäinen, jonka alkuperäisjäsenet Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler ja Ozzy Osbourne tekivät yhdessä. Uuden albumin tekeminen alkaa mahdollisesti vuoden 2015 alkupuolella riippuen kitaristi Tony Iommin terveydentilasta. Iommi sairastui lymfoomaan eli imusolmukesyöpään vuoden 2012 alussa ja tulee tarvitsemaan hoitoa koko loppuelämänsä.
”The whole Sabbath experience this time around was great,” says Ozzy. ”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. 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 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.”
Although the trio have no new material written for what will be their fourteenth studio album, Osbourne anticipates that sessions will begin early in 2015.
”It’ll be sooner rather than later,” the singer insists. ”Obviously a lot of it is coming down to Tony’s health, he’s obviously got his cancer treatment, but we’ll get onto it next year. I don’t know if we’ll be writing in England or LA, but I’ll fly to the fucking moon for it if I have to!”