After somewhat teasing, Judas Priest is now streaming their cowl of Black Sabbath‘s “Warfare Pigs” that includes vocals from the late and nice Ozzy Osbourne. All proceeds from the one will go to The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Basis and Remedy Parkinson’s. Or to make use of the precise company communicate on this one – “earnings of Sony Music Leisure UK Ltd and Epic Data within the UK from audio streams, downloads, and bodily gross sales.” Simply so we’re all on the identical web page, clearly. Get it here.
In a current interview with Rock Of Nations With Dave Kinchen And Shane McEachern, Judas Priest drummer Scott Travis addressed why Judas Priest have been absent from Black Sabbath‘s historic last efficiency, which happened on July 5, 2022 at Villa Park in Birmingham, UK. “We knew in regards to the Sabbath reunion or the Sabbath last present that was developing within the U.Okay., however as I am certain you are conscious, we had already contracted and agreed to do the Scorpions‘ 60th-anniversary present in Germany [on the same day]. So we could not do the Ozzy factor.”
As an alternative, Judas Priest determined to honor Sabbath with a recorded tribute – the one you are listening to now. “We thought it might be cool to file a Sabbath music as a tribute to Ozzy. And, after all, we bought the blessing from [Ozzy‘s wife and manager] Sharon Osbourne. So we did our model of ‘Warfare Pigs’. However we did that nicely earlier than — not solely earlier than the Black Sabbath present however earlier than Ozzy handed. In order that was type of bizarre that we have been in a position to try this.”
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