Back to the Beginning Festival takes place in Birmingham, England, with a huge list of special appearances
The Villa Park Stadium in Birmingham, England, hosts on Saturday, 5, a historic event for Heavy Metal. The festival Back to the beginning marks the farewells of both the original formation of the Black Sabbath how much of the vocalist Ozzy Osbourne.
The event brings a series of guests, such as Guns n ‘Roses, Metallica, Slayer, Gojira, Tool, Alice in Chainsamong many others. And in the opening attraction, there was the special participation of a Brazilian: ELOY CASAGRANDEdrummer of Slipknot and formerGrave, Glory, ANDRE MATOS and more. Another of them emerged as a support musician: João Nogueira.
The first band to take the stage was the Mastodonat 9:30 am local time. They, who bring walnut as a tours keyboardist, performed their own songs “Black Tongue” and “Blood and Thunder”. In addition, they were in charge of playing “SuperNaut”track released by Black Sabbath on the album Vol. 4 (1972). For this, they had the participation of Casagrande, besides the fellow drummers MARIO DOUND (Gojira), Danny Carey (Tool).
Then the Rival sounds emerged with its own “Do Your Worst”the cover “Electric Funeral” – Sabbath, obviously – and also the author “Secret”. Following, the Anthrax I brought only two songs: your classic “Indians” and “Into The Void”heavy anthem of the honored group of the day.
The first band to bring an Ozzy track in a solo career was the fourth of the program, the Halestorm: “Perry Mason”responsible for opening the album Ozzmosis (1995). The American group led by the vocalist/guitarist LZZY HALE also included “Love Bites (I)” and “Rain Your Blood On Me” in your short repertoire.
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The Back to the Beginning Festival will be transmitted online from 11am on the Backtothebeginning.com website. To access, you must pay a ticket of $ 82.25 + eventual fees. Stream is delayed in two hours compared to what happens on site.
Black Sabbath’s farewell
The vocalist Ozzy Osbournethe guitarist Tony Iommithe bassist Geezer Butler and the drummer Bill Ward It will go to the stage together for the last time at a charity festival, with a series of artists and metal bands. See below the list of attractions:
- Black Sabbath
- Ozzy Osbourne (solo)
- Metallic
- Guns n ‘Roses
- Tool
- Slayer
- Panther
- Gojira
- Alice in Chains
- Halestorm
- LAMB OF GOD
- Anthrax
- Mastodon
- Rival sounds
Additional guests:
- Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
- David Draiman (Disturbed)
- DUFF MCKAGAN
- Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit)
- LZZY HALE
- Jake E. Lee
- Jonathan Davis (Korn)
- Kk Downing
- Mike Bordin (Faith no More)
- Pope V Perpetua (Ghost)
- Rudy Sarzo
- Sammy Hagar
- Slash
- Sleep Token II (Sleep token)
- Tom Morello
The event will be charity, with all the profit for three charity institutions: Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and AHREN CHILDREN’S HOSPICE.
The festival Back to the beginning You will be transmitted online starting from 11am on the Backtothebeginning.com website. To access, you must pay a ticket of $ 82.25 + eventual fees. Stream is delayed in two hours compared to what happens on site.
See also:
+++ Read more: Why Black Sabbath brought mobsters to be his entrepreneurs
+++ Read more: Ian Gillan’s opinion on ‘Born Again’, his only album with Black Sabbath
+++ Read more: Black Sabbath’s best song with Ozzy, according to Ronnie James Dio
+++ Read more: the social character of Black Sabbath music, according to Tom Morello
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Source: Rollingstone
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