RANDY BLYTHE (LAMB OF GOD): "If you play in a heavy metal band, or are a fan of any heavy metal music, then know that your roots lay in Birmingham, starting way back in 1968 with four working class Englishmen named Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, & Bill Ward. "

 

RANDY BLYTHE, vocalist of Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. thrash metal warriors LAMB OF GOD reflects on "BACK TO THE BEGINNING", OZZY OSBOURNE and BLACK SABBATH'S final show, 

 

LAMB OF GOD have posted  "CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE" (BLACK SABBATH COVER) .. 

 LAMB OF GOD have posted  "LAID TO REST" (HEALTH REMIX) ,  unleashed 7/18/2024 via streaming platforms . .

LAMB OF GOD have posted "STATE OF UNREST", a collaborative stand alone single with German thrash metal legends KREATOR, unleashed 2/10/2023. 

 LAMB OF GOD, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "OMENS",  unleashed 10/7/2022 via EPIC RECORDS. 

  LAMB OF GOD unleashed "LIVE IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA", the bands anticipated 2020 live stream, 3/26/2021 via I TUNES.

 LAMB OF GOD  re-issued the bands self titled release, unleashed 3/26/2021 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. 

LAMB OF GOD unleashed  the bands anticipated new, self titled release,  6/19/2020 via EPIC/SONY.

 

 

UK metal/doom legends BLACK SABBATH'S BACK TO THE BEGINNING FINAL show featured LAMB OF GOD, SLAYER, PANTERA, TOOL, GUNS N ROSES as the show took place 7/5/2025 @VILLA PARK BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND. 

 

Special guests METALLICA, SLAYER, PANTERA, OZZY OSBOURNE, GOJIRA and MORE HARD ROCK and METAL BANDS. 

 

 

 BLACK SABBATH released "13", unleashed 6/11/2013 via VERTIGO/REPUBLIC

 

 

 

 

 

 

FROM RANDY BLYTHE (LAMB OF GOD): 

 

I do not have the words to explain what merely being at, much less performing at, Black Sabbath’s final show yesterday felt like. I’m still trying to process it- it’s crazy.

I have been in my band for 30 years now, and I have played many, many shows in that time. But the overwhelming energy at this show— in the audience, in the backstage area, and onstage (because I was in all 3 areas at different times)— was something I have never felt before, and I know I never will again.

It was something DIFFERENT, something very, very special.

If you play in a heavy metal band, or are a fan of any heavy metal music, then know that your roots lay in Birmingham, starting way back in 1968 with four working class Englishmen named Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, & Bill Ward.

They created this. PERIOD. For those of us who make this music, there will never be another chance to play with the original creators again. That was IT… & it was amazing.

If you were there in the audience, you should know that every single band member I talked to to- from Mastodon who opened the show up all the way to Metallica who played right before Ozzy- was nervous to go onstage… I do mean EVERYONE (God knows I was.)

It a sign of our respect for the dudes who created this music that we all felt this way. We all wanted to honor them, to show respect, to thank them for this wild-ass life that they have given us, and to do justice to their tunes— all of us get to travel the world & play this music because of what these four guys started.

Then to see those four guys give it one last glorious whirl, four songs… it was earth shattering.

So thank you Black Sabbath, thank you Birmingham, & thank you to all the fans who came out yesterday to help us give Sabbath a proper send off. We also raised A LOT of money yesterday for 3 different charities- Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, & Acorn Children’s Hospice. None of the bands took a single penny for this gig- hell, none of us even got a guestlist!

I am so happy to have witnessed it & beyond grateful to have been asked to be a part of it.

A simply unbelievable day…

 

 

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-