Posts Tagged ‘Ozzy’

Or not. Nothing special, really. As you can see the album art for the new Ozzy Osbourne album is nothing more than Ozzy standing on a mound, holding a black flag and pointing at…well, I just don’t know. Maybe he’s giving the peace sign; it’s hard to tell in low res. The album will arrive on June 15th through Epic records and contains 11 tracks, including the first single ‘Let Me Hear You Scream‘. I’m very curious as to how the rest of the album sounds. Unlike most people, I kind of liked the single. I didn’t think it was too bad, but then again I only listened to it once. Still, I hope it’s a better record than his last, and the few before that. Tracklisting after the fold. Read the rest of this entry »

It was announced the other day that Ozzy Osbourne has gone with “Scream” as the name for his upcoming album. At least it’s not “Soul Sucka”, right? Below you can kind of preview the track “Let Me Hear You Scream” that will be featured on CSI NY on April 14th. It’s not a bad tune from what I’ve heard here, but I hope there is better songs on the album and ones that showcase Gus G’s talent.

I gotta hand it to the guys in Shadows Fall. Their cover for Ozzy‘s classic Bark At The Moon was pretty damn good. The video only complemented the song by following the original video the best you could 27 years later. I still think Ozzy looked the better werewolf.

The same Revolver Magazine that ahd the Vulgar Display Of Power article also had an excerpt from Ozzy’s new book called “I Am Ozzy“. I’ll share a short piece of it that had me laughing a bit before I went to work this morning. Here Ozzy was talking about when they first started touring America and all the black magic, Satanist types that were constantly thinking the band was “Evil” and into the occult.

“They just wouldn’t fuck off, those Satanists. I’d walk out of my hotel room in the morning, and they’d be right outside my door, sitting in a circle on the carpet, all dressed in black hooded capes, surrounded by candles. Eventually I couldn’t take it any more. So one morning, instead of brushing past them as I usually did, I went up to them, sat down, took a deep breath, blew out their candles, and sang “Happy Birthday.”

“They weren’t too fucking happy about that, believe me.”

Just picturing a young Ozzy doing that with a big smile on his face, made my day. I can’t wait to read this book as I’m sure it’s probably filled with all sorts of fun stories like this.

Normally you don’t see much posting from me on the weekends but I’m going to try to at least get one a day up. A few things went on over the weekend so I’ll get right to them.

• Zakk Wylde was hospitalized after a show Wednesday night ion Montana due to a blood clot[s]. Seems like he’s doing better but he had go back yesterday for further tests or something. Black Label Society will also be touring South America in December.
• Also hospitalized recently was Joey Jordison of Slipknot. They were supposed to headline the Pain In The Grass in Auburn Washington last night but had to cancel. No word as to why Jordison was actually hospitalized but it couldn’t have been anything too major because he’ll be back on stage tonight in Kennewick Washington.
• Dave Mustaine Issued and update on the Megadeth Forums recently where he talked about antagonistic interviewers and passed people that Auditioned for the band. He actually said that he may have made a mistake by not hiring Dimebag and Vinnie Paul.

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I’m sitting here with a pint of Guinness, which is quite wonderful even though 10 years ago I couldn’t stomach it; waiting for my Laptop to get done backing everything up so I can do a full restore after it took a shit on me when I got home. Seems like it’s taking forever. In the meantime I’m using my recording PC listening to Toxic Holocaust. Thanks Alex. it only took me like 6 months to get it. Glad I have a back-up PC, otherwise you wouldn’t see any updates tonight. Anyway, I thought I’d start things off with a simple catch up of what’s going down today in the world of metal. Read the rest of this entry »

After the buzz around the metal web about the new Megadeth song, I noticed a lot of people talking about lyrics and how they don’t think Dave Mustaine can write good lyrics anymore. I understand and I can agree to a certain extent. Thinking about it a little more, most of the veteran metal bands write shitty lyrics these days. In fact, Zakk Wylde even said that Ozzy has hired song writers. Let’s look at a few bands that have been around the mill a bit.

• Metallica: No this isn’t Metallica bashing time. They just fall in to this category. James Hetfield hasn’t really written any solid lyrics to a song in almost 20 years. Like it or not, the Black Album had some great lyrics. Everything after that kind of took a creative nose-dive.
• Judas Priest: Writing lyrics for a concept album isn’t nearly as difficult as writing lyrics for a random song. On Angel Of Retribution, Priest wrote a song about the Lochness monster. Enough said.
• AC/DC: These guys have been writing the same songs about the same things for over 40 years, but still manage to keep it semi-interesting.
• KISS: Hasn’t written a good song in over 40 years. Again, enough said.
• Anthrax: The last time these guys wrote a really solid tune was back when they had John Bush on vocals,
• Ozzy Osbourne: Have you heard Black Rain?

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