“It’s strange to think about a world without The Prince of Darkness…” 

It all started on February 13, 1970, with the ominous sounds of chapel bells, thunder, and pouring rain, and it all ended with an emotionally charged, worldwide downpour of tears from fans across the planet on July 22, 2025, the day that OZZY OSBOURNE, The Prince Of Darkness, bade this world farewell and passed into eternity.

Ozzy, for many metal heads, represents “the “beginning” of the heavy metal journey. With a “creepy and unsettling” voice that sounded like no one else before or after him, he was, for all intents and purposes, “the first and the last” of his kind in metal, helping to lay the foundations for the countless heavy metal subgenres that would follow and spawning legions of metal heads that would loyally follow him across multiple generations. 

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “She hangs out…but she doesn’t run off…I said ‘Hey lady’…”/ #markthetime / #Dice / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST, NOW (SADLY) IN A #POSTOZZYWORLD *** / #shizirt / “I know but “just do it already…quit dick docking around…”

(03:11): #PatreonShoutOut ***JOIN US ON THE PATREON AT patreon.com/metalnerdery.com ***/ #TomDick / ***JOIN US on the Social Media at #metalnerderypodcast on #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube and #TikTok ***/ #drumfill / “That was not gay…” / ***LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “I have missed that sound…so much…”/ #PissingPost / “We all knew it was coming…”/ “It’s almost like if suddenly oceans didn’t have water anymore…”/ “Since we’re already in this space…”

(07:56): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: OZZY OSBOURNE – IN MEMORIAM / A #eulogy for #ThePrinceOfDarkness #OzzyOsbourne / Our earliest memories of Ozzy / “His voice as a solo artist was different to me than his voice in Sabbath…”/ “It was a little creepy and unsettling…”/ “He doesn’t sound like anyone else…”/ “I never had any friends that had parents with cool record collections…”/ “Married his 14 year old…cousin…”/ “All our heroes were doing this in the 70’s…”/ “You didn’t realize how mainstream Ozzy was until Tuesday…”/ “He had to do the vocal words…”/ “After you heard the news…what was the first Ozzy song you heard?”

(19:44): “It’s gonna be #OzzyDay from now on…”/ July 22, 2025 #RIP #OzzyOsbourne / “From here on out…”/ “He’s ALWAYS been there…”/ MAMA I’M COMING HOME (No More Tears – 1990) from #JacobDavisGuitar / “The window’s open, the breeze flowing…your balls are out…”/ “Like old #MichaelHedges style…”/ #acousticguitarplayers / “He’s kind of The God of Heavy Metal…”/ “I feel like #TheOsbournes made him more relatable…”/ “She kept that man alive…him and his career…”/ “Think about your parents…Ozzy has always looked like Ozzy…” / #BackToTheBeginning is being proposed to be an annual event/ “The most powerful genre of music in the world…there’s no #PopNerdery podcast, how about that?”

(29:52): “Here’s a thought…”/ #TheFirstAndTheLast #BlackSabbath and #OzzyOsbourne / “Bless that man and bless that band…”/ BLACK SABBATH (Black Sabbath – 1970) / “Get to the fast part…”/ “Vita-macta…facta-mica…”/ PARIAH (13 – 2013) / NOTE: It’s Dear Father / “Sounds like #RATM …”/ “I would trade this for Technical Ecstasy…”/ DEAR FATHER / #TheEnd / “It’s all the same…only the names have changed

(41:41): “In terms of an opener…not only an album opener but your (solo) career opener…” / I DON’T KNOW (Blizzard Of Ozz – 1980) / “Perfect…”/ “Chainsaw metal…”/ “The last song on Never Say Die! was…” / SWINGING THE CHAIN (Never Say Die! – 1978) / “Wait, is that Ozzy!?” / OVER TO YOU / “This album is still infinitely better than Technical Ecstasy…”/ “Those 2 albums became southern rock…you’d listen to this on #DazedAndConfused…”/ “That’d be weird if #Liberace was in Black Sabbath…”/ “Well I didn’t see my balls for a couple of days…” / #mycondolences / “It was 4 this time…”/ GOD ONLY KNOWS (Patient Number 9 – 2022) / “As soon as I said the ‘M’ word…”/ DEGRADATION RULES 

 ***NOTE: Degradation Rules was released as a single on 07/22/2022, 3 years to the day before Ozzy’s passing. ***

“Crazy…but that’s how it goes…”  - Crazy Train 

(55:33): “I mean I never shat on it…” / “You held the cheeks apart…handles and everything…”/ “Sid Wilson…from Scranton…”/ “Has anybody ever translated (the runes) the album cover of Speak of the Devil?” / ***Go check out all of our Ozzy and Sabbath episodes!!!*** / GOD BLESS OZZY OSBOURNE FOR EVERYTHING METAL!!! / #untilthenext #outroreel / “What do you wanna hear!?” / #RestInPeaceOzzy