A bevy of bands who’re at the moment on tour paid tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne throughout their Tuesday (July twenty second) gigs, together with a few of his fellow rockers: Pantera, Primus, and Ghost.
Pantera have been protecting Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan” for years, having famously included a studio model on 1994’s Far Past Pushed. Their efficiency of the music on Tuesday evening in Cincinnati was significantly somber and spine-chilling, nonetheless, because the band performed an accompanying tribute video to Ozzy on the massive display screen, that includes pics from all through late singer’s life.
As for Primus, the band didn’t have a right away Sabbath/Ozzy music of their again pocket — though they famously lined Sabbath’s “N.I.B.” with Ozzy again in 2000 — however Les Claypool and firm did sprinkle in bits and items all through their set in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A tease of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” could possibly be heard throughout opening music “These Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers,” and the band later performed a partial model of “Loopy Prepare” — that includes pictures of Ozzy on the massive display screen — earlier than tossing within the riff from Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” because the intro to “HOINFODAMAN.”
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In the meantime, Ghost acknowledged Ozzy’s passing throughout their gig at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis. Though the band didn’t cowl any materials, frontman Papa V Perpetua, aka Tobias Forge, did take a second halfway by means of the set to dedicate the sold-out MSG present to Ozzy, inciting chants from the group: “Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy!” Forge informed the viewers, “For being the Prince of Darkness, he certain gave us numerous mild.”
In ipromiseyoumedia’s latest cowl story on Ghost, Forge informed us, “The affect that Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne have had on me is totally immense. I fucking love Ozzy. I believe he’s wonderful, an enormous affect for me… I can’t actually thank them sufficient.”
Watch footage of every tribute beneath.
Pantera performed their model of the Black Sabbath music Planet Caravan tonight as a tribute to Ozzy. It was superior. RIP Ozzy pic.twitter.com/g0ZymmPP1f
— Greg (@giggitygreg) July 23, 2025
