The official trailer for Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning is out, and tickets are on sale for the concert film built around Ozzy Osbourne’s final performance. It is a hometown farewell that now reads as both a commemoration and a last chapter. The film opens in cinemas worldwide on October 28th for a limited run. Tickets are at backtothebeginning.com.
The trailer is not simply a highlight reel. Sharon Osbourne puts the night in one sentence. Ozzy was told he probably would not make it through the show. He said no. He was doing it. Whatever happens, happens.
Seventeen days later, on July 22nd, 2025, he died at 76. A later death certificate listed a heart attack as the primary cause, with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s among the contributing factors. Villa Park was the last time he sang before an audience.
Back where it started
On July 5th, 2025, the founding Black Sabbath lineup (Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward) played together at Villa Park in Birmingham. It was their first show as a four-piece in more than 20 years. It was also their last.
Demand told the story before a note was played. More than three million people chased 44,000 tickets. The stadium sold out. For one day, the city that produced Sabbath became the centre of the music it created.
Ozzy worked from a custom throne and still sounded like himself. Reports from the night talked about a voice that held, a crowd that treated every song like a send-off, and a singer who knew exactly why he was there. He wanted to say thank you.
“You have no idea how I feel,” he told the stadium. In the trailer, the crowd answers by singing Mama, I’m Coming Home back to him.
Geezer Butler later said the feeling in the ground was almost physical. “To me it was like pure love. It was just a wave of love. It’s the only way I can really describe it. I mean I could feel it as if it is like tangible.”
A family reunion with volume
Tom Morello, the night’s musical director, said no show had ever been like it. Jason Momoa hosted. Around Ozzy and Sabbath sat a roll call of bands raised on those riffs: Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Slayer, Pantera, Tool, Alice in Chains, Gojira, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Anthrax, Halestorm and Rival Sons.
Then the all-star sets kicked in. Steven Tyler and Ronnie Wood. Billy Corgan. Yungblud. Sammy Hagar. Travis Barker. Chad Smith. Papa V Perpetua of Ghost. Nuno Bettencourt. A rotating cast that turned the afternoon into a living hard-rock family tree.
James Hetfield kept it simple. “Look at all this love towards heavy metal. Metallica is so grateful to be invited here to see all your beautiful faces and celebrate the band Black Sabbath. Thank you, boys, for giving us a purpose in life.”
Billy Corgan called it one of those rare days you know you will remember for the rest of your life. Yungblud called it a bad dream. Jerry Cantrell did not bother dressing it up. Anybody who plays rock and roll, he said, has been influenced by Sabbath.
The film runs two hours and thirty minutes. It is not a dump of the whole festival. It keeps Ozzy’s solo spots and the four-song Sabbath reunion intact, threads in the tribute performances, and cuts to reflections and backstage footage. Ben Wainwright-Pearce directed it for the screen. Tim van Someren directed the live concert. It will play in Dolby Atmos and 5.1.
Trafalgar Releasing CEO Marc Allenby called the first show a landmark and the cinema release a way for the rest of the world to stand in that stadium after the fact.
The songs in the film
The published running order for the cinematic cut is a rebuilt version of the day:
Ozzy Osbourne, I Don’t Know
Mastodon, Supernaut
Rival Sons, Electric Funeral
Anthrax, Into the Void
Halestorm, Perry Mason
Tool, Hand of Doom
Ozzy Osbourne, Mr. Crowley
Tom Morello’s All Stars with David Draiman, Jake E. Lee, David Ellefson, Mike Bordin and Adam Wakeman, Shot in the Dark
Tom Morello’s All Stars with Whitfield Crane, Scott Ian, Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, II of Sleep Token and Adam Wakeman, Believer
Tom Morello’s All Stars with Yungblud, Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, II and Adam Wakeman, Changes
Lamb of God, Children of the Grave
Alice in Chains, Fairies Wear Boots
Gojira, Under the Sun
Pantera, Electric Funeral
Slayer, Wicked World
Ozzy Osbourne, Suicide Solution
Tom Morello’s All Stars with Travis Barker, Danny Carey, Chad Smith, Tom Morello, Nuno Bettencourt and Rudy Sarzo, Symptom of the Universe
Tom Morello’s All Stars with Billy Corgan, Tom Morello, K.K. Downing, Adam Jones, Rudy Sarzo and Danny Carey, Snowblind
Tom Morello’s All Stars with Sammy Hagar, Nuno Bettencourt, Adam Wakeman, Rudy Sarzo, Chad Smith and Vernon Reid, Flying High Again
Tom Morello’s All Stars with Papa V Perpetua, Vernon Reid, Nuno Bettencourt, Adam Wakeman, Rudy Sarzo and Travis Barker, Bark at the Moon
Tom Morello’s All Stars with Steven Tyler, Ronnie Wood, Nuno Bettencourt, Tom Morello, Andrew Watt, Rudy Sarzo and Travis Barker, The Train Kept A-Rollin’
Tom Morello’s All Stars with Steven Tyler, Nuno Bettencourt, Tom Morello, Andrew Watt, Rudy Sarzo and Chad Smith, Walk This Way
Guns N’ Roses, Never Say Die
Metallica, Hole in the Sky
Ozzy Osbourne, Crazy Train
Black Sabbath, War Pigs
Black Sabbath, N.I.B.
Black Sabbath, Iron Man
Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Ozzy Osbourne, Mama, I’m Coming Home
That last placement is a film choice. On the night, the feeling was already obvious. On screen, the hometown ballad gets the final word.
Why this goodbye stuck
Rock is full of farewell tours that were not farewells. This one was. Ozzy had been trying to close the book since 2018. Parkinson’s, spinal surgeries and a fall kept delaying it. Back to the Beginning was the version that finally felt finished: original Sabbath, home turf, Aston Villa’s ground, the bands he helped raise, and an audience that had waited years to see him one more time.
A cinema cannot bring him back. What it can do is put that afternoon in a dark room with proper sound and let people who never got near Villa Park hear the same songs hit the same night atmosphere.
Sharon Osbourne has said the concert happened because she asked Ozzy what would actually make him happy. He wanted to perform again and thank the fans. That was the request.
The trailer ends on his face in the throne. He is smiling. He looks restless. He still looks like Ozzy. For two and a half hours in October, that is the version cinemas get. Not the obituary. The last time the Prince of Darkness told a football ground to go crazy.
Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning opens worldwide October 28. Tickets: backtothebeginning.com. The official trailer is on the Black Sabbath YouTube channel.
