
25/07/2025
Children of Doom!
Alright now. This has taken a while to sink in. Honestly, I had been expecting the news of Ozzy’s passing for decades now, given his formerly extreme lifestyle. Still, it is a shock. A caesura.
Many years ago, a voice wailing the words ‘What is this that stands before me? Figure in black which points at me…’ opened wide the gates of Heavy Metal and Doom for me and completely changed my life… which would have been much different and, most likely, significantly shorter otherwise.
How it all started has been disputed for ages. Yes, there may have been chunks of proto-Metal floating around in the primeval soup of the 1960s, but I have always been an obstinate proponent of the Big Sabbathian Bang theory. Black Sabbath are the fathers of Heavy Metal, and Ozzy’s voice was its birth cry. And what would the world be like without Heavy Metal? The thought makes me shudder.
Heavy Metal is my heart. Doom is my blood. And I owe it to Black Sabbath and Ozzy. Rest in peace, madman.
† DOOM † is æternal. Ozzy is æternal.
Doomchild