Ozzy Osbourne recalled the time he overheard Metallica taking part in a Black Sabbath music — and believed they had been doing it to bother him.
The second occurred in 1986, simply earlier than the thrash icons moved into the large time with their third album, Grasp of Puppets. In a current interview with Metal Hammer, Osbourne stated he’d met the band in a Los Angeles lodge and shortly determined to take them on the highway as his opening act.
“I keep in mind strolling previous the dressing room and so they had been taking part in Black Sabbath,” the singer recalled. “I had no concept they had been massive followers – I assumed they had been taking the piss!” He added: “I’d maintain seeing James [Hetfield] hanging about, like he wished to ask one thing. Ultimately he walked up and stated, ‘We need to play “Paranoid” with you,’ and we had been like, ‘Certain!’ – then they confirmed simply how massive Sabbath followers they had been.”
Maybe surprisingly, Osbourne stated he did not find yourself partying with Metallica, who’d turn out to be infamous at an early stage for hard-living methods. “No, to us they had been only a good bunch of men!” he recalled. “The wildest we had from them was James, who should have damaged his arm three fucking instances on that tour, skateboarding.”
Osborne stated he’d been “completely” sure that Metallica would obtain greatness, recalling issues “actually took off after they put out the Black Album, particularly with ‘Enter Sandman.’ He continued: “On this enterprise there’s quite a bit that’ll shock you and I’m endlessly being stunned by issues. Clearly the album touched a nerve or one thing. … It’s a kind of albums that got here on the proper time and place, then took off. If we knew precisely what was wanted to make an album go off like that, we’d all do it, however they obtained it completely proper and made an absolute must-have album.”
