Black Sabbath have been forced to postpone two gigs from their final tour after their frontman, Ozzy Osbourne, fell ill.
The heavy metal pioneers cancelled their Saturday gig in Edmonton, Alberta and also announced that they are going to push back their Monday gig in Calgary. In the band stated that Osbourne is suffering from “extreme sinusitis”. The rescheduled dates will be confirmed at a later date.
Sabbath opened the tour on 20 January in Omaha, Nebraska. The band are set to play across the world before returning back to the US to conclude the tour in Phoenix, Arizona on 21 September.
Due to extreme sinusitis with Ozzy Osbourne the shows in both Edmonton and Calgary have been postponed. Details... https://t.co/b59XeaNgdL
— BlackSabbath (@BlackSabbath) January 31, 2016
The metal icons have vowed that the tour will be Sabbath’s last ever tour, entitling it The End. "We were gonna do [another album] before the tour, but it would take three or four years to write and record an album, by which time I'll be fucking 73 or 72 or something, so we decided just to a farewell tour," Ozzy Osbourne told Digital Spy.
The band had previously announced that a new eight-track LP will be available to buy exclusively on the tour.
Meanwhile, the band will be headlining Download Festival 2016 in the UK, alongside Iron Maiden and Rammstein. Download takes place at Donington Park, Leicestershire between 10-12 June. Tickets are on sale now, and you can buy them here.
