Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath will play finals in Birmingham

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath were last reunited, with a fundraising concert in Birmingham on July 5.

Heavy Metal Trail Blazers will hold a spectacular day-long festival in Villa Park, which includes dozens of bands they inspired, including Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Gojira and Anthrax.

The concert will mark the original lineup of the Black Sabbath – Oz Osborne, Tony Emmy, Jizer Butler and Bill Ward – played together for 20 years.

Osborne, who was largely forced to stop the tour due to a combination of Parkinson's disease and spinal injury, will play a brief solo before joining his bandmates.

His wife Sharon and Tommy Iommi of Black Sabbath announced his comeback at Villa Park.

Tom Morello, a machine guitarist who served as music director of the event, told machine guitarist Tom Morello that it would be “the greatest heavy metal show ever.”

Proceeds from the show will support Cure Parkinson's, Birmingham Children's Hospital and Acorn Children's Hospice, an Aston Villa-backed child hospice.

Other actions in the lineup include Alice's Chain, Conrest, the Lamb of God and Mastoden.

In addition, the concert will feature “supergroups” such as Billy Corgan, Ramp, Fred Durst, Wolfgang Van Helen ( Wolfgang Van Halen and Tom Morello. Although not confirmed yet, some guest stars will likely fill for Osborne in the Black Sabbath scene.

The band was founded in Birmingham in 1968, after a farewell show to 16,000-sold-out audiences at the city’s NEC Arena in 2017.

The scene consists mainly of their early songs, including WAR Pigs, Nib and Black Sabbath, before ending their breakthrough hit and signature song Paranoid.

The concert was held at the end of a large, 81-year-old world tour, and Osborne thanked fans for their support for the band’s career.

“I have to tell you something, it's a journey for all of us,” he said.

“We started in 1968 and it’s 2017 – I can’t believe it, man. But, if it weren’t for the fan base, we wouldn’t have survived. So if you’re an experienced fan, that’s great.

After the concert, Osborne released two solo albums – Normal Men and Patient No. 9. However, he suffered a spinal injury in 2019 after a crash involving the ATV and required extensive surgery.

That same year, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and retreated largely after attending the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in 2022.

However, He recently told the British Rolling Stone He longs for a desire to return to the stage.

“I'll do it one day at a time if I can perform again, I will,” he said. “But it's like saying goodbye to the best relationship in my life.”

He added: “I'm not going to stand there, be a half-hearted, looking for sympathy. What's that (exaggeration) point? I'm not going to be in an (expletive) wheelchair.”