Ozzy Talks Inspiration for New Sabbath Single

Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne went on the BBC in England to discuss the band's new single, "God Is Dead?" and the inspiration behind the track. Ozzy explained, "I was in somebody's office and there was a magazine on a table and it just said, 'God Is Dead,' and I suddenly thought about 9/11 and all these terrorist things and religion and how many people have died in the name of religion. When you think about the tragedy that's happened throughout time, it just came in my head. You'd think by now that their God would have stopped people dying in the name of, so I just starting thinking that people must be thinking, 'Where is God? God is dead' and it just hit me."

Ozzy added that the question mark at the end of the title is his way of showing that he's not sure about the answer himself, saying, "At the end of the thing, there's still a bit of hope because there I sing that I don't believe that God is dead. It's just a question of when you see so many dreadful people killing each other with bombs, and blowing the tube trains up and the World Trade Center."

"God Is Dead?" is taken from the new Sabbath album, 13, which arrives on June 11th.
It's the first Sabbath record in 35 years to feature Ozzy, guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler all playing together.

Details of the album's deluxe edition surfaced on Friday (April 19th), with the band revealing that the eight-song effort will be accompanied by three bonus tracks called "Methademic," "Peace Of Mind" and "Pariah."

Sabbath kicked off its world tour in support of 13 on Saturday (April 20th) in Auckland, New Zealand