Black Sabbath To Play Intimate Download Festival Warm-Up Show At Birmingham O2 Academy & Tickets
Monday, 30 April 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
In preparation for their anticipated headline performance at this year’s Download Festival, Black Sabbath have announced an intimate homecoming show at the O2 Academy in Birmingham on Saturday, 19th May. The show will be the band’s first in Birmingham for thirteen years. A donation to Help for Heroes will be made from the proceeds of the show. Tickets for Black Sabbath are on sale this Friday at 9am.
Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler return to their hometown for this exclusive show following November’s announcement that the band are currently working on their first studio album in thirty three years with seven-time Grammy winning producer Rick Rubin. It will be their ninth studio album together and their first since 1978’s 'Never Say Die!'
Following the release of their self-titled debut album in 1970, “The Original” Black Sabbath have gone on to release eight acclaimed studio albums and sell over seventy million albums worldwide. In 2005 the band were inducted into the U.K Music Hall of Fame by Angus Young of AC/DC. This was followed by their induction in 2006 into the U.S Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an honor bestowed on them by Metallica’s James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
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