Megadeth have defined why they have been conspicuously absent from Black Sabbath’s latest ‘Again To The Starting’ farewell live performance.
The epic present occurred at Villa Park within the band’s hometown of Birmingham on July 5, the ultimate present from the enduring heavy steel band that took on further poignancy lower than three weeks later when Ozzy Osbourne tragically handed away on the age of 76.
A who’s who of laborious rock music historical past performed units at ‘Again To The Starting’, with Rage Towards The Machine’s Tom Morello serving as musical director and names on the invoice together with Weapons N’ Roses, KoRn, Instrument, Slayer, Pantera, Metallica, Alice In Chains, Gojira, Anthrax, and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.
One main title within the historical past of steel that was not current, nonetheless, was Megadeth, and now the band’s bassist James LoMenzo has revealed the rationale for his or her absence.
In an interview with Burn! journal, it was identified to LoMenzo that his band have been the one one of many conventional ‘Large 4’ that didn’t play. “I’m going to let the cat out of the bag,” LoMenzo replied. “The reality of the matter is, I don’t consider that anyone requested us, which was positive.”
“Not all people will get invited to each get together,” he continued. “However on the similar time, after we have been in Europe final week, David [Mustaine] stated that he was reaching out to all people and telling them that we have been within the neighborhood and that we have been shut sufficient to come back. And in the event that they wished us to, we might keep over for a couple of days and work it out. . . . In the event that they wished us to. I don’t know what our supervisor had achieved with that, nevertheless it didn’t get achieved, so we simply got here residence.”
It has since been confirmed that the present has turn out to be the highest-grossing charity live performance of all time, bringing in over $190million for his or her chosen charities Remedy Parkinson’s, Birmingham Youngsters’s Hospital and Acorns Youngsters’s Hospice.
We additionally know now {that a} movie documenting the gig is at present in manufacturing from Mercury Studios and is ready to reach in cinemas in 2026. It has a reported run time of 100 minutes and is described as “a love letter to Ozzy and the pioneering sound of Black Sabbath”.
For the reason that information of Osbourne’s dying broke, numerous stars of the music world have been paying tribute, together with Oasis, Judas Priest, Metallica, Yungblud, Elton John, Ronnie Wooden, Tom Morello and Alice Cooper.
The likes of Coldplay, Ghost, Gojira and Drake have additionally devoted performances to Osbourne, as followers shared footage and reminiscences from the artist’s closing reside appearances.
