Live from Villa Park, Birmingham – July 5, 2025
Diolch, legends. You’ve melted our faces one last time. 🕊️
Here it is, mun — every single performance and every song played at one of the most iconic metal events of all time. A global farewell to the Prince of Darkness, a thunderous goodbye from the Birmingham gods who created heavy metal, and a who’s-who of metal royalty paying tribute the only way they know how — LOUD AF. 🤘
🐘 Mastodon
- Black Tongue
- Blood and Thunder
- Supernaut (Black Sabbath Cover) 🖤
⚡ Rival Sons
- Do Your Worst
- Electric Funeral (Black Sabbath Cover) 🔌
- Secret
👹 Anthrax
- Indians
- Into the Void (Black Sabbath Cover) 🌌
🧛♀️ Halestorm
- Love Bites (So Do I)
- Rain Your Blood on Me
- Perry Mason (Ozzy Cover – Lzzy = unstoppable 🔥)
🐏 Lamb of God
- Laid to Rest
- Redneck
- Children of the Grave (Black Sabbath cover) – brutal and beautiful
🌟 Supergroup #1 (Lzzy Hale, David Draiman, Whitfield Crane, Yungblud, Jake E. Lee, Mike Bordin, David Ellefson, Adam Wakeman, Nuno Bettencourt, Scott Ian, Frank Bello, Sleep Token II)
- Ultimate Sin (Ozzy cover)
- Shot in the Dark (Ozzy cover)
- Sweet Leaf (Black Sabbath cover)
- Believer (Ozzy cover)
- Changes (Ozzy cover – tears, everywhere 😢)
🎭 Jack Black, Revel Ian, Roman Morello (Pre-taped)
- Mr. Crowley (Ozzy Cover – full Tenacious D-style epicness)
🖤 Alice in Chains
- Man in the Box
- Would?
- Fairies Wear Boots (Black Sabbath cover)
🐉 Gojira
- Stranded
- Silvera
- Mea Culpa (w/ Marina Viotti – operatic doom!)
- Under the Sun (Black Sabbath cover)
👑 Supergroup #2 (Billy Corgan, Sammy Hagar, Papa V Perpetua, Steven Tyler, Tom Morello, Nuno Bettencourt, Rudy Sarzo, Travis Barker, Chad Smith, Danny Carey, K.K. Downing, Adam Jones, Adam Wakeman, Vernon Reid, Ron Wood, Andrew Watt)
- Symptom of the Universe (Sabbath cover)
- Breaking the Law (Judas Priest cover)
- Snowblind (Sabbath cover)
- Flying High Again (Ozzy cover)
- Rock Candy (Montrose cover)
- Bark at the Moon (Ozzy cover)
- Train Kept A Rollin’ (Aerosmith cover)
- Walk This Way / Whole Lotta Love (Mash-up madness!)
🐮 Pantera
- Cowboys From Hell
- Walk
- Planet Caravan (Sabbath cover – beautifully trippy)
- Electric Funeral (Sabbath cover – again, but heavier 😵💫)
🌀 Tool
- Forty Six & 2
- Hand of Doom (Sabbath cover – absolute chills)
- Ænema
🔥 Slayer
- Disciple
- War Ensemble
- Wicked World (Sabbath cover – twice? YES PLEASE)
- South of Heaven
- Raining Blood
- Angel of Death
🌹 Guns N’ Roses
- It’s Alright (Sabbath cover)
- Never Say Die! (Sabbath cover)
- Junior’s Eyes (Sabbath cover – rare cut!)
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Sabbath cover – carnage)
- Welcome to the Jungle
- Paradise City
⚫ Metallica
- Hole in the Sky (Sabbath cover – opener from hell)
- Creeping Death
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Johnny Blade (Sabbath cover – deep cut, pure fire)
- Battery
- Master of Puppets (with an Ozzy scream outro 😈)
🎤 OZZY OSBOURNE – The Madman’s Last Roar
Ozzy’s voice may be worn, but his soul? Eternal. What a farewell.
- I Don’t Know
- Mr. Crowley
- Suicide Solution
- Mama I’m Coming Home
- Crazy Train 🚂💥
🕯️ BLACK SABBATH – The Final Bow
Original lineup. Last time ever. In Birmingham. A funeral and a resurrection in one.
- War Pigs
- N.I.B.
- Iron Man
- Paranoid
🖤 FINAL VERDICT?
This wasn’t just a gig, this was a love letter to everything metal has ever meant — power, rebellion, darkness, and unity. Villa Park just hosted the biggest funeral-slash-celebration since Valhalla.
Proper job, lads. We were tamping it had to end, but what a way to go. 🏴☠️💀
#BackToTheBeginning #OzzyForever #SabbathSaves #RiffReportLive
Michael is the founder, editor, and chief riff wrangler behind The Riff Report, an independent Welsh rock and metal publication built by fans, for fans. With a lifelong passion for loud guitars, unforgettable live shows, and the incredible community that surrounds rock and metal, he created The Riff Report to celebrate everything that makes the scene special—from legendary headline acts and grassroots venues to rising bands that deserve to be heard.
A familiar face at festivals across the UK, Michael spends much of the year covering events including Download Festival, Bloodstock Open Air, Steelhouse Festival, Firevolt, Plumpton Revival, and many more. Whether he’s battling the Welsh weather on a mountainside, surviving a weekend in a muddy campsite, or squeezed against the front barrier with thousands of fellow fans, he’s always searching for the next great story to share.
As editor of The Riff Report, Michael writes festival guides, breaking news, album reviews, gig reviews, interviews, opinion pieces, nostalgia features, and behind-the-scenes stories from across the rock and metal world. His writing combines honest opinions, humour, and a genuine love for live music, bringing readers closer to the bands, festivals, venues, and people that keep the scene alive.
Michael is particularly passionate about supporting independent artists, local venues, charities, and the wider UK rock and metal community. He believes every band deserves a chance to be discovered and every festival has a story worth telling. Through The Riff Report, he aims to shine a spotlight on both the biggest names in rock and the future stars waiting to break through.
When he’s not writing or interviewing artists, you’ll probably find him exploring festival campsites, photographing live shows, chatting with fellow fans over a pint, or planning the next road trip in search of more riffs, bigger crowds, and unforgettable moments.
Above all, Michael believes rock and metal are about more than music—they’re about community, friendship, and creating memories that last a lifetime. That’s exactly what The Riff Report exists to celebrate.
Proudly Welsh. Proudly Loud. Always chasing the next great riff. 🤘
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