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Black Sabbath Set Release Date for ‘13’ Album

Band offers revealing look at studio sessions with Rick Rubin

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Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath. Photo: Shane Hirschman/ Flickr

Black Sabbath’s first album with Ozzy Osbourne in 35 years finally has a release date: ‘13’ is slated to come out on June 11th, according to the latest official update for the band. The news was accompanied by a behind-the-scenes video of Sabbath recording in Los Angeles’ Shangri-La Studio with producer Rick Rubin.

“I’ve been a fan of Black Sabbath my whole life, and getting to come in to work everyday and hearing Black Sabbath play, it stimulates something in me just like when I was 14 years old,” Rubin says in the clip. “They just want what’s best, and we’re all sort of working together to find whatever works best for them.”

“He looks like a bit of a guru, but he knows what he’s looking for and when he’s satisfied with what he’s got,” Osbourne says of Rubin.

Recorded last fall, 13 finds Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and guest drummer Brad Wilk (of Rage Against the Machine) resurrecting the ultra-heavy sound of early Sabbath records; tracks like “End of the Beginning” and “Age of Reason” stretch out to as long as eight minutes. “I don’t know what’s going on in the music world,” Osbourne recently told ROLLING STONE. “My wife mentions bands to me and I don’t know what the fuck she’s talking about. We just do what we always did.”

 

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