A bevy of bands who’re at present on tour paid tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne throughout their Tuesday (July twenty second) gigs, together with a few of his fellow rockers: Pantera, Primus, and Ghost.
Pantera have been masking Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan” for years, having famously included a studio model on 1994’s Far Past Pushed. Their efficiency of the music on Tuesday night time in Cincinnati was notably somber and spine-chilling, nonetheless, because the band performed an accompanying tribute video to Ozzy on the large display screen, that includes pics from all through late singer’s life.
As for Primus, the band didn’t have a right away Sabbath/Ozzy cowl of their again pocket, however Les Claypool and firm did sprinkle in bits and items all through their set in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A tease of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” may very well be heard throughout opening music “These Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers,” and the band later performed a partial model of “Loopy Practice” — that includes photos of Ozzy on the large display screen — earlier than tossing within the riff from Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” because the intro to “HOINFODAMAN.”
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In the meantime, Ghost acknowledged Ozzy’s passing throughout their gig at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis. Though the band didn’t cowl any materials, frontman Papa V Perpetua, aka Tobias Forge, did take a second halfway by means of the set to dedicate the sold-out MSG present to Ozzy, inciting chants from the gang: “Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy!” Forge advised the viewers, “For being the Prince of Darkness, he positive gave us quite a lot of gentle.”
In Consequence’s latest cowl story on Ghost, Forge advised us, “The affect that Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne have had on me is completely immense. I fucking love Ozzy. I feel he’s wonderful, an enormous affect for me… I can’t actually thank them sufficient.”
Watch footage of every tribute beneath.
Pantera performed their model of the Black Sabbath music Planet Caravan tonight as a tribute to Ozzy. It was superior. RIP Ozzy pic.twitter.com/g0ZymmPP1f
— Greg (@giggitygreg) July 23, 2025