Black Sabbath tickets LIVE: Pre-sale for legendary band’s ‘greatest heavy metal show ever’ in Birmingham starts today
TICKETS are now on sale for Ozzy Osbourne’s final gig.
It promises to be a who’s who of metal as rock royalty from around the world prepare to descend on Birmingham this summer.
This is the first time the original members of Black Sabbath have reunited in 20 years with many fans fearing it would never happen – not only because of their combined age of 303 but due to fractious inter-band relations.
The concert’s musical director, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, promises it will be “the greatest heavy metal show ever”.
Titled Back to the Beginning, tickets for the charity show at Villa Park are on sale from 10am today and available from the following outlets:
- Ticketmaster – buy
- Live Nation – buy
- US Ticketmaster – buy
Support for the gig on July 5 comes from Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Duff McKagen from Guns N' Roses and many more.
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The show at Villa Park is close to where Ozzy Osbourne grew up before forming the band.
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Here is a quick recap:
- It takes place on July 5 at Villa Park, Birmingham
- Sabbath will be joined by Pantera, Metallica and many more greats of metal
- It will be Ozzy Osbourne's final show
- The artist pre-sale starts today
- The show is entitled Back to the Beginning
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