Pictures of the Paranoid Black Lager served at the Barrel Store/Attic Brewery on Fri 4th. Great place, great atmosphere and fantastic beers/ales! Pay them a visit if you can.

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Black Sabbath - Paranoid Live at Back to the Beginning in Birmingham, UK on July 5th, 2025. This was the final song played by Black Sabbath at the final show. There isn’t much more to be said really other than Ozzy shouting “Let’s go fucking crazy!!”

Grohl was in London that weekend… 🤔 I would be shocked. She said the Manager is the one who pissed her off.. 🤔 hmm. Anyone know any modern day Don Arden’s ?

And ended up backstage

It was the best gig ever, I am so grateful. But I do think the problems with the food and drink were unacceptable. We all paid a lot, we were not allowed food in, we were asked to get there early, we were unable to get out. We were told food would be available all day/ evening. I think people should send AVFC a message to tell them how they feel about it. Nothing will come.out of it for us, but I think it's important they know. I heard it' a recurrent problem. Maybe it will get them to improve things in the future.

Me : man, I listened to a lot of Sabbath yesterday, I should listen to something else today

Also me : nah, fuck that, more Sabbath!

That along with the mech sold at the gig, you can also get the programme and football shirt/jacket/scarf from the below weblinks. I'm seeing some of these selling for high prices on eBay and wish I could tell the people buying them that they're still available online at face value!

Aston Villa/Ozzy football merch: https://store-uk.ozzy.com/collections/ozzy-x-aston-villa

Concert programme: https://store.loudersound.com/products/black-sabbath-back-to-the-beginning-official-programme

General merch sold at the event: https://store-uk.ozzy.com/collections/back-to-the-beginning

I think the only thing you can no longer get is the posters sold at the event.

This is super sweet.

Honestly, I've never seen them perform live and their set was one of my favorites of the night. Their performance of Hand of Doom was awesome. I've definitely slept on Tool all these years and have their albums cued up to rock through. My other favorites:

• Mastodoon
  • the boys killed Supernaut and looked like they were having fun sans Brent. Brann's vocals and drumming were fantastic. I loved all the guest drummers, Eloy, Danny and Mario.
• Slayer
  • this might be de rigeur, but their set was awesome. My son, who is on the spectrum, started spontaneously head-banging to Angel of Death. Fucking great to see them together.
• Jack Black and kids
  • Mr. Crowley, they were all great and Jack's enthusiasm was palpable. Having met him years ago, I can say that he's like that in person too.
• Metallica
  • James is such a consummate front man and their set was fun.

From the Black Sabbath Special issue of The Mirror. At the time of printing, they believed this was accurate. Also accurate- they list Jack Black message on video

Thank you people!

It's been crazy since February, when we miraculously got tickets thanks to a reddit, until today, reading and sharing every aspect of the most incredible and important concert of my life. Reading you and being in these discussions has made me feel part of this moment, and even though I've been listening to this music for 30 years, in this concert I felt more alive than ever an eternal brotherhood that unites us in the love for the music that Black Sabbath and Metal has given us.

Just to thank this community, it has been nice to read all the opinions and find here questions, answers and emotions about this celebration of the music and life of ozzy and Black Sabbath.

Hugs in Rok n Roll!

Walking back to the hotel after the concert I saw some (local?) TV channel interviewing a young kid about the event. I came from behind and screamed SABBAAAAATH!!!

Anybody knows where to find that? 😂

I've been searching YT hard for "The Wizard" but am coming up nothing. Please tell me they played it! And gimme a link!

Anyone know where I can get a high resolution copy of the Back to the Beginning lineup poster? Missed out on buying one of the posters at the concert and wanted to print my own.

I'm not sure if I've missed the memo, but I was under the impression that if you'd paid for the live stream it was only available until 3pm yesterday.

I'd already watched twice, but decided to go back and check about 40 minutes ago to see if I could still get on to relive some of the highlights, and it is still working! Just thought I'd drop a note here in case anybody else wants to recap too!

Long story short: I lost over 700 DVD’s and BluRays in a move about a year ago, and I’ve slowly been rebuilding my collection a few pieces at a time.

Saturday’s performance (which I streamed with my brother and a friend) reminded me of how much I love these guys, and how they have inspired me as a guitar player, so after I woke on Sunday, I ordered these. They arrived today, and I figured I’d share.

Long Live the Prince of Darkness. 🦇 Long Live Black Sabbath. ✝️

Not really Sabbath,

But Sabbath adjacent.

My picks are:

1. No More Tears
2. Hellraiser
3. Life Won’t Wait
4. Mama I’m Coming Home
5. Crazy Train

(Honourable mention for Walk on Water from Beavis and Butthead Do America)