Black Label Society Shares New Music Video for Touching Tribute Track ‘Ozzy’s Song’

Black Label Society have shared a touching music video for their tribute track, ‘Ozzy’s Song’, written in honour of the late Black Sabbath singer.

Black Label Society have shared a new music video for the track ‘Ozzy’s Song’, taken from their new album Engines of Demolition, which was released yesterday via MRNK.

The new track is a surprising ballad that closes out the album and is, of course, about the late Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne. It’s a track that’s been long-awaited from frontman Zakk Wylde, who joined Osbourne’s band when he was only 19 years old.

A live rendition of ‘Ozzy’s Song’ was released as a single ahead of the album’s release. Now the band have released an official music video for the song directed by Justin H. Reich.

You can watch the music video below.

In an interview with São Paulo, Brazil’s 89 FM A Rádio Rock recently, Wylde would go on to reveal he’s had parts of the song written before Ozzy’s passing. Although it wasn’t until his death that Wylde was able to find the words to sing with the track:

“ Yeah, I had the music written ’cause we’d been writing this album for the last three and a half years, almost four years. So, we stockpiled all these songs and I was real happy with the way the music came out. And then I figured eventually I’ll finish the song,” Wylde shared (per MetalSucks).

“But then after we laid Ozzy to rest, when we got back home, we took a break from Pantera celebration [touring with the reformed Pantera]. I sat in a little library room in our house. I just put the headphones on at about one o’clock in the morning and I was looking at a book of Ozzy and I just wrote the lyrics. And that’s what came out.

“My wife would always be listening to it in the truck, Barbaranne, she’d be, like, ‘Babe, put on Ozzy’s song again.’ So that was pretty much just the working title. It’s just, like, well, it’s Ozzy’s song. So, people would always be asking, like, ‘I wonder since Zakk wrote a song for [late Pantera guitarist] Dimebag [Darrell Abbott],’ and now we sing it for [late Pantera drummer] Vinnie [Paul Abbott] as well, ‘with ‘In This River’, I wonder if Zakk will write a song for Ozzy on the new album.’ So, it’s only fitting. We just called it ‘Ozzy’s Song’. So that’s how we ended up with ‘Ozzy’s Song’.”

Black Label Society’s new album, Engines of Demolition, was released yesterday, and if you’re looking for an album to give some closure on the late Prince of Darkness’ passing, this might help.

So, why not settle in, flick on the album and have your face blown off by Wylde’s blistering solos before sobbing at this heart-wrenching ballad to close things out?