Slayer feels honoured to be part of Black Sabbath’s final concert

Kerry King revealed in a recent interview with Rolling Stone Brazil’s Igor Miranda that Slayer will perform a cover of Black Sabbath at Ozzy Osbourne and Sabbath’s farewell show on July 5 in Birmingham, England.

It’s such an honor to even be thought of to play that, and I’m glad we were actually in the ‘working mode’ so we can get that offer. It’s gonna be awesome. And I drug my feet and picked our song really late, so when there weren’t as many obvious choices, but the one I picked is gonna work out really cool. I worked it out with my band, so me and Paul could rehearse it. So we’ve already got it. We’ve just gotta get Tom and Gary  on board whenever — probably in June we will rehearse for that. It’s gonna be killer. What we’re doing is cool. I’ve already thought about being at that show very early ’cause there’s a lot of my friends that are gonna be playing Sabbath songs, and I wanna see a lot of it. I’m sure the stage is gonna be a nightmare getting onto, so I’m hoping there’s live feeds backstage so we can just watch it and hear it. I wanna see Metallica. I wanna see Pantera. I wanna see Lzzy Hale, just to name a few.

“Back To The Beginning” is the title of Ozzy‘s final show, which sold out in less than ten minutes last month at Villa Park on July 5. The original Black Sabbath band, which included Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler, and drummer Bill Ward, will perform together for the first time in 20 years at the all-star event. Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Tool, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Alice In Chains, Halestorm, Lamb Of God, Anthrax, and Mastodon are also scheduled to attend.