“This is quite possibly the most important album I have done in a very long time, probably since No More Tears.”
–Ozzy Osbourne
Yesterday, Ozzy Osbourne teased new music and today we have it! “Under The Graveyard” is the first solo track we’ve had from Ozzy in album 10 years and is set to appear on a brand new album called Ordinary Man, due out in early 2020. Ozzy says of the record:
“This album was a gift from my higher power–it is proof to me that you should never give up.”
Recorded in Los Angeles, the album features producer Andrew Watt on guitars, Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses) on bass and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) on drums. Ozzy explained how the recording of this record began:
“It all started when [his daughter] Kelly comes in and says ‘do you want to work on a Post Malone song?’ My first thing was ‘who the fuck is Post Malone?!’ I went to Andrew’s [Watt] house and he said we will work really quick. After we finished that song, he said ‘would you be interested in starting an album.’ I said ‘that would be fucking great, but now I am thinking I don’t want to be working in a basement studio for six months! And in just a short time, we had the album done. Duff [McKagan] and Chad [Smith] came in and we would go in and jam during the day and I would go work out the songs in the evenings. I previously had said to Sharon I should be doing an album, but in the back of my mind I was going ‘I haven’t got the fucking strength…’ but Andrew pulled it out of me. I really hope people listen to it and enjoy it, because I put my heart and soul into this album.”
