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Ozzy Osbourne has confirmed the end of Black Sabbath, stating he will be returning to solo material.
The eccentric star told Billboard that whatever the band does now will be "our last hurrah...then it's no more Sabbath at all. We're disbanding the name and everything. They don't want to tour anymore. I get it. But I love it. I'm gonna continue my solo thing".
It's not all doom and gloom for Sabbath fans though as frontman Ozzy will continue to produce his own material: "I've been not doing my solo stuff for quite a while now — I've been touring with Sabbath, so I just wanted to let everybody know I haven't stopped doing my solo stuff...I'm going to do one more Black Sabbath tour, one more album with Black Sabbath, and it'll take about two or three years before I release solo stuff again. So Memoirs of a Madman is just to say to the fans that I haven't stopped."
He goes on to add that the new material will be different than anything fans have heard from him with the band: "Black Sabbath is slow and demonic; Tony Iommi is untouchable for that kind of stuff," Osbourne explains. "My stuff is more melodic, more structured of a song. It's more kind of rock than doom-y music. It's happier, kind of."
'Memoirs of a Madman' is out now and features a 17-song best-of disc as well as two DVDs featuring performance footage, videos and interviews.
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