The guitarist Zakk Wylde recently spoke about plans to Ozzy Osbourne to record a new album”more melodic“.
The death of Ozzy Osbourne In July of this year it was one of the great losses in music in 2025. In a recent interview Zakk Wyldeguitarist and former member of the Ozzy Osbourne Bandrevealed that the English singer and songwriter had plans to work on a new album “heavy but more melodic”.
Wylde expressed that if it had not been for Osbourne’s death, they would have worked together again on an album close to the style of “Patient Number 9″ (22). In conversation with the American portal NJ, the vocalist of Black Label Society spoke about his last performance with Osbourne at the massive concert Back to the Beginningas well as his desire to compose a new album. “He wrote to me, ‘Zakk, let’s make another record. “I liked what you did with the Allman Brothers and with Lynyrd Skynyrd, when we did ‘No More Tears.'” remembered. As for what the job would sound like, Ozzy described the project to him as “heavy but more melodic” and without becoming “extremely heavy”.
Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde first collaborated in the late ’80s with “Rest for the Wicked” (88), including, among others, his participation in the “No More Tears“(91), the “Ozzmosis“(95) or the guitar lines on “Patient Number 9“(22). Despite not being able to make this new album, Osbourne wrote her memoirs”“Last Rites”– published posthumously in October – and two documentaries have been released that reflect his last years of life: “Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home” and “Ozzy: No Escape From Now“.
