Ozzy Osbourne promises new Black Sabbath album, world tour

BLACK Sabbath will return to the studio next year to record one more album, before embarking on a final world tour.

Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne

BLACK Sabbath has decided to record one last album.

After the success of the band’s recent 13 album, Ozzy Osbourne has revealed plans to return to the studio with guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler in early 2015.

“We’re going to do one more album, and a final tour,” he told Metal Hammer.

Osbourne said the band enjoyed recording 13 last year, leaving the studio on friendly terms.

“Once the dust settled after the last tour we started discussing the idea [of a new album], because we were getting asked about it all the time,” he said. “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.’

On the road ... Black Sabbath perform at Perth Arena. Picture: News Corp Australia

“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 f***ing 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.’

Osbourne added that the album would come “sooner rather than later”.

“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,” he said. “I don’t know if we’ll be writing in England or LA, but I’ll fly to the f***ing moon for it if I have to.”

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