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Zakk Wylde reportedly plays on every song on the upcoming
Ozzy Osbourne album.
The guitarist, who has been a member of
Ozzy's solo band on and off for nearly 35 years, was excluded from the legendary heavy metal singer's 2020 LP
"Ordinary Man", which was the first
Osbourne effort to be produced by
Andrew Watt.
After
Ozzy recently confirmed that
Zakk makes an appearance on his "work-in-progress" follow-up to
"Ordinary Man", which is tentatively due in 2022,
Diary Of The Madmen - The Ultimate Ozzy Osbourne Podcast recently posed the question on social media: "Does
Zakk play all of the rhythm guitars on the new album?" Someone handling
Ozzy's verified account apparently responded" "Yes
Zakk plays on the entire new record" and added, "He was home from tour this time unlike when I did
Ordinary Man". You can see a screenshot of the exchange below.
Ozzy recently revealed that 15 songs have been recorded for his upcoming LP. He is once again working with
Watt on the album, which will include additional guest appearances by
Jeff Beck,
Eric Clapton and
Tony Iommi.
Asked about his contributions to the new
Ozzy LP,
Zakk told
Music Radar: "The new
Ozzy stuff is sounding great. And for sure, it's an honor to play on a record with all my heroes. It's pretty cool… I can't wait for everyone to hear it. I've always loved
'Blow By Blow' and
'Wired', but honestly, every record
Jeff Beck has put out is amazing."
Wylde went on to say that
Beck "definitely sounds slamming" on the upcoming
Ozzy album. "The same goes for all the guys — what
Tony Iommi played, and then
Eric Clapton and
Jeff Beck, it's all killer, for sure. On those tracks I'm playing rhythm guitar for my heroes… it's crazy! It sounds awesome and I'm beyond honored to be doing it."
Last month,
Ozzy told
Metal Hammer magazine that his new album will be "similar in tone to
'Ordinary Man', but I can't describe it completely. I've not heard it for a while because it keeps going over to the next person to add their parts — we're fucking around with it all the time," he said.
Watt connected with
Osbourne after meeting
Ozzy's daughter
Kelly at a friend's party and pitching her on the idea of
Post Malone and
Ozzy collaborating together.
Seven months ago,
Ozzy told U.K.'s
Metal Hammer magazine that he and
Andrew had completed more than a dozen for his next studio LP. "My only concern right now is finishing the bloody thing," he said. "We've got the same production time as the last time, so there's definitely going to be some similarities. But you'll just have to wait and see what you think."
In December 2020,
Watt told
Guitar World that he and the
BLACK SABBATH legend were "halfway through" the new LP. "There's some songs on there that are like eight or nine minutes long that are these really crazy journeys. I'm really excited about it," he said.
Like
"Ordinary Man", which featured
Watt on guitar,
Duff McKagan (
GUNS N' ROSES) on bass and
Chad Smith (
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS) on drums,
Ozzy's next album will feature guest appearances by a number of other notable musicians. "There's a bunch of people involved,"
Andrew told
Guitar World. "I can't say for sure until the end, but I started doing a bunch of basic tracks with
Chad and
Robert Trujillo [
METALLICA], who used to play in
Ozzy's band. And
Taylor Hawkins [
FOO FIGHTERS] also came in and played a bunch on the record as well, which adds a different flair — it kind of harkened back to
Ozzy's '80s era, in a great way. And I think it's so cool for a rock fan to be able to listen to half an album with
Chad Smith on drums, and then you flip it over and you get to hear
Taylor Hawkins. And you know, the last album was really special for everyone involved. And so there was no point in
Ozzy or me doing this again unless we thought we could bring something new to the table. And I feel like we're achieving that."
Wylde previously told
Classic Rock that he wasn't disappointed to be excluded from
"Ordinary Man". "Not at all," he said. "I thought he and
Andrew Watt did a great job. And I'm not on the new one either. Again it's
Ozz and
Andrew. I understand why I'm not in the studio.
Ozz once said to me that he didn't want to be the lead singer in
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: 'You have your own thing now, so go to it.'
"I don't have to be involved in everything
Ozz does. I'll always be there for him and
Sharon. If they call now and ask me to go over to feed their dogs for three days… I'm there."
This past April,
Zakk told
SiriusXM's
"Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" that he checked out some of the songs on
"Ordinary Man" and liked what he heard. "It came out cool," he said. "I saw the videos and everything like that. It's cool, man. And
Andrew and everything like that — yeah, it was rocking."
Photo credit:
Mark Weiss Photography
Ozzy CONFIRMS directly to Diary of the Madmen - The Ultimate Ozzy Podcast that Zakk Wylde does indeed play guitar on every track on his upcoming album! ?#Ozzy #ZakkWylde
Posted by Diary Of The Madmen - The Ultimate Ozzy Osbourne Podcast on Friday, October 29, 2021