Ozzy Osbourne has confirmed that he will continue to release music once Black Sabbath split and that he has already begun work on his next solo album.
Black Sabbath will release one final album in 2015, the follow up to their 2013 album ’13’. Speaking in an interview with Billboard, frontman Osbourne says he understands his bandmates desire to stop touring but that he is not ready to give up yet.
[This will be] our last hurrah…Then it’s no more Sabbath at all. We’re disbanding the name and everything. They don’t want to tour anymore. I get it. But I love it. I’m gonna continue my solo thing,” says Osbourne revealing that he is “in the process of collecting stuff that I’m writing” for his next solo effort.
Talking about his new material, which is being recorded with The Cult and Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison, he adds: “Black Sabbath is slow and demonic; Tony Iommi is untouchable for that kind of stuff. My stuff is more melodic, more structured of a song. It’s more kind of rock than doom-y music. It’s happier, kind of.”
Black Sabbath have released 13 studio albums since forming in 1968. The current line up of the band sees Iommi and Osbourne joined by third original member Geezer Butler on bass.
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