{"id":940494,"date":"2026-10-20T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940494\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:10:09","slug":"andrew-watt-explains-why-the-final-black-sabbath-album-didnt-come-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940494\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Watt Explains Why the Final Black Sabbath Album Didn’t Come to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Producer Andrew Watt<\/a> has revealed why a final Black Sabbath<\/a> album with the original four members rumored to be helmed by him didn\u2019t come to pass.<\/p>\n

Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi had earlier said that he found Watt to be \u201ctoo excited,\u201d<\/a> while also explaining that he was happy with ending the legendary metal band\u2019s recording career with 2013\u2019s 13.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Rolling Stone (watch below), Watt reacted to Iommi\u2019s comments, and gave further insight into why the album never came to be:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat I think was taken out of context. You know me. I\u2019m definitely an excited musician, person. That would be a true statement. But that\u2019s not why it didn\u2019t happen. Ozzy wanted to continue to work and make stuff and we were making music and he had the idea, we were talking about, \u2018Let\u2019s try to do something a little different than the two albums that we made.\u2019 Ordinary Man\u00a0and\u00a0Patient Number 9\u00a0were different albums but they were of the same DNA. So we were like, what could we do that\u2019s different? Do you want to make something with Tony? Should we make an Osbourne\/Iommi album? And then [Ozzy] was like, \u2018Let\u2019s make a Sabbath album. We didn\u2019t do an album with Bill Ward.\u2019<\/p>\n

I think looking back at all the stuff he wanted to do, making an album with Bill was really important to him. And this was before \u2018Back to the Beginning\u2019 was happening. I think the idea of doing something with Bill was very, very important. So one of the first incarnations of that was a potential album. As Ozzy does, he gave me the marching orders: \u2018Call Tony, then you call Geezer [Butler, Black Sabbath bassist], then you call Bill.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Bill Ward, who famously was left out of the Black Sabbath reunion that produced their final album\u00a013, as well their farewell tour, was clearly an important aspect of the band they all felt strongly about. However, it was Ward\u2019s inability to do the album due to personal reasons that inevitably sank the project.<\/p>\n

So, I called Tony. \u2018Would you want to do it?\u2019 \u2018That sounds cool. If Bill would do it, yes.\u2019 Geezer, \u2018If Bill would do it, yes.\u2019 It was all about if Bill would do it, yes. So, then I had to have a conversation with Bill. And that was one of the strangest and funniest and coolest \u2014 because it\u2019s Bill Ward \u2014 conversations. It was a long conversation. He was speaking in tongues which now knowing him, being friends with him, makes sense. Long story short, without going into it too deeply, he was unable to do the album for personal reasons. There was a nice, beautiful, long email sent to all of us \u2014 and I was on an email with the original members of Black Sabbath which is pretty cool \u2014 then it was like, \u2018Bill can\u2019t do it, there\u2019s no reason to do it.\u2019<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure Tony didn\u2019t feel like going into all of that. Tony\u2019s awesome. He\u2019s a great friend to me, a great mentor. We have a couple songs together on Ozzy\u2019s album and had an amazing time working together. I was definitely excited that it was going but that wasn\u2019t the reason why we didn\u2019t make the album. I think he\u2019s just taking the piss.<\/p>\n

In the same interview, Watt revealed there are unreleased Ozzy tracks<\/a>, perhaps the ones intended for the proposed Black Sabbath album.<\/p>\n

Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning, the concert film documenting Ozzy and Sabbath\u2019s final concert, had its world premiere<\/a> hosted by the Osbourne family on October 14th with its wide release coming on October 28th. Tickets to the global release are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch the full interview between Rolling Stone and Andrew Watt below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Producer Andrew Watt has revealed why a final Black Sabbath album with the original four members rumored to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-940494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}