OZZY OSBOURNE Re-Signs With EPIC, Says 'No' To New BLACK SABBATH Album

March 16, 2005

Billboard.com is reporting that OZZY OSBOURNE has re-signed with Epic Records and is working on material for his next studio release. "Ozzy's writing now, and there'll be something out at the beginning of next year," his wife/manager Sharon told Billboard.com.

One item not likely to see the light of day, however, is a new BLACK SABBATH studio disc, which would be the band's first with Osbourne since 1978's "Never Say Die!"

"I could go in the studio and write a bunch of stuff, but why do an album just for the sake of [drummer] Bill [Ward], [guitarist] Tony [Iommi], me and bassist [Geezer] Butler together playing if it's not up to the BLACK SABBATH standard that I left?," Ozzy told Billboard.com. "It would f*ck it up, you know? It's so sad when you hear these monumental bands do these piece of sh*t records just because they want the money."

That said, Osbourne still revels in playing live with BLACK SABBATH, which will anchor this summer's 10th anniversary edition of the Ozzfest tour. "There is no one on the face of the earth that can play these songs," he said. "The fortunate thing about me is I have two vibes; I can do the Ozzy thing and the SABBATH thing. The SABBATH thing, when we were kids, we didn't say 'We'll, write this song called 'War Pigs' and in f*cking 25 years we'll be icons. We had no idea. We didn't have any musical education."

"The beauty of those days was, we would end the song when we wanted to f*cking stop playing," he continued. "I can honestly say that [with] BLACK SABBATH, nobody ever told us what to play or how to play. It was our gig."

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