Whereas the eponymous Side A closer of Black Sabbath’s 1980 album (their first with Ronnie James Dio replacing Ozzy Osbourne) was typically sludgy, gritty and gloomy, Coheed and Cambria pass some of that muckiness through a brighter, cleaner and more vibrant and epic filter.

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's farewell show featured performances from bands including Tool, Guns N' Roses, and Metallica.

Backed by some of the biggest and most respect bands in the game, Black Sabbath bowed out in spectacular style at the Back To The Beginning event at Villa Park in Birmingham, just down the road from where Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward grew up and formed a band that'd change the world.

Featuring a mocking anti-religious lyric from lapsed Catholic Geezer, the romping After Forever is one of the most musically sophisticated songs in Sabbath’s early canon, and is a result of the quartet feeling the pressure to follow-up the No.1 success of Paranoid with a more ambitious sound.

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The day-long concert special featured standout performances from Osbourne and Black Sabbath, Metallica, Guns n' Roses, Jack Black and more.

With the band's epic farewell show at Villa Park in Birmingham, England, in the books, old and new Black Sabbath fans are showing their love for the heavy metal band and their legendary lead singer Ozzy Osbourne.