{"id":524827,"date":"2026-04-11T08:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524827\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:08:17","slug":"why-ozzy-osbourne-never-enjoyed-listening-to-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524827\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ozzy Osbourne never enjoyed listening to metal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ozzy<\/p>\n

(Credits: Sony Music UK)<\/p>\n

Fri 10 April 2026 13:00, UK <\/p>\n

There\u2019s never going to be anyone on this planet with half the amount of charisma that Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> had. <\/p>\n

Even though a lot of his greatest performances could be a bit more chemically impaired than others back in his prime, the reason why people loved having him around was that he was genuinely a massive music fan who seemed to love every second he had onstage. But even if \u2018The Prince of Darkness\u2019 was dubbed one of the founders of all things metal, he wasn\u2019t as interested in being one of the most sinister figures every single time he went onstage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Granted, it\u2019s a little hard to consider yourself one of the most wholesome characters of all time when you\u2019re in a band called Black Sabbath. The whole premise behind the band was about making the scariest music that anyone had ever heard, and since Osbourne was trying his best to get the most out of his voice, that often meant sounding like someone who was on the verge of losing their mind every single time he got onstage to sing their namesake track or working on their more haunting material.<\/p>\n

No one was going to tell you that \u2018Children of the Grave\u2019 was a positive rock and roll song by any stretch, but the concept of heavy metal was still relatively new when Osbourne was first coming out. The public hadn\u2019t really had a name for the kind of wild genre that was being created by people like Led Zeppelin<\/a> and The Who when they had first started, but even when looking at the biggest names in heavy music, Osbourne couldn\u2019t really be asked to pay attention to what the heavy hitters of metal were doing.<\/p>\n

He was proud to have started a genre, but the biggest names in metal weren\u2019t something that he listened to on a daily basis by any stretch, saying<\/a>, \u201cI don\u2019t know [when heavy metal was first said] but I love to meet them so I could strangle the git. To be honest, I don\u2019t really listen to that much metal. I listen to Peter Gabriel. I do like Guns N\u2019 Roses. I mean, everything\u2019s under the roof of being metal, and the way they perceive it now is if you have long hair and spandex pants, you\u2019re metal, and that\u2019s not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, it\u2019s not like Osbourne was completely averse to metal bands on principle or anything. The biggest names in the genre like Motley Crue to Metallica have war stories about touring with Osbourne as one of their first major tours across the country, and even if Osbourne listened to more mainstream music, there was no way that he could turn away from a band that had tunes as sturdy as \u2018Master of Puppets\u2019.<\/p>\n

But if you look through Osbourne\u2019s record collection, you\u2019ll tend to find a lot more Beatles and not a whole lot of Slipknot. He was much more interested in melody above anything else, and even when looking at some of the darker moments throughout Sabbath\u2019s discography, you could still hear him reaching up as high as he possibly could to get the fire in his voice for a track like \u2018Hole in the Sky\u2019.<\/p>\n

If anything, the kind of bands that seemed most indebted to what Sabbath were doing were those that were coming out of the Seattle scene years later. Osbourne was as far away from grunge as you could get fashion-wise at the time, but if you look at the riffs to a lot of Alice in Chains records or Soundgarden records, it\u2019s not that hard to imagine his voice soaring over top of all of those songs.<\/p>\n

So while \u2018The Prince of Darkness\u2019 didn\u2019t exactly understand his place among the greatest metal bands of all time, that\u2019s not to say that he couldn\u2019t stand tall as one of the titans of the genre. Sabbath were never meant to be one of the biggest bands in the world when they started, but no one could deny that they managed to transcend any genre labels after they killed the Summer of Love.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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