Ozzy Osbourne has his expressed disappointment in Black Sabbath’s closing album, 13.
“To be completely sincere, I didn’t actually get a cost from the album,” Osbourne admitted throughout a dialog with Stereogum. “Though Rick Rubin is an efficient buddy of mine, I wasn’t actually… I used to be simply singing. It was like stepping again in time, but it surely wasn’t a wonderful interval. Although Geezer [Butler] did a number of lyric writing for me, which he’s very, excellent at. It wasn’t an earth-shattering expertise for me.”
The 2013 LP was the primary studio album from Black Sabbath in 18 years, and first with Osbourne since 1978’s Never Say Die! Although 13 was a industrial success, it is clear the band was lower than thrilled with its creation. Ozzy’s emotions on the LP echo that of Butler, who beforehand criticized Rubin’s involvement in 13.
“It was a bizarre expertise, particularly with being informed to neglect that you are a heavy steel band,” the bassist explained throughout an interview with SiriusXM earlier this 12 months. “That was the very first thing [that Rubin] mentioned to us. He performed us our very first album, and he mentioned, ‘Forged your thoughts again to then when there was no such factor as heavy steel or something like that, and faux it’s the follow-up album to that’ – which is a ridiculous factor to assume.”
Regardless of a number of band members admitting disappointment in 13, Ozzy has little curiosity in creating one other album with Sabbath.
“I wish to say it’s fully finished,” the Prince of Darkness informed Stereogum. “I feel it’s time. The one factor I actually remorse, to be sincere, is that Bill Ward didn’t play on the album. It wasn’t actually a Black Sabbath album. I’m not saying that at some point we’d not all go in a room and provide you with the right Black Sabbath album. However I’ll say, [13] wasn’t recorded the best way Black Sabbath recorded data. We’d gone proper again previous the purpose the place we took cost, again to when another person had full management of our recording. Which we by no means did from Vol. 4 onwards.”
