Judas Priest to Release Their Version of “War Pigs” Featuring Ozzy Osbourne Tomorrow

There’s been talk about it for a while now, but it sounds like we’re finally going to hear the Judas Priest cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” featuring the late Ozzy Osbourne tomorrow. Not only that, but all profits generated in the U.K. from streams, downloads, and physical sales will be donated to The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation and Cure Parkinson’s.

We’ve known about this version of the classic 1970 track. Around the time of the ‘Back to the Beginning’ show on July 5, Judas Priest was unable to attend. Rather than not pay tribute to Ozzy and Black Sabbath on their final day as a group, Priest dropped their cover and continue spreading the faith for ’em.

Black Sabbath then took the single and uploaded its corresponding music video onto their official Black Sabbath YouTube page, where it’s garnered 4.8 million views. While speaking on the Full Metal Jackie show, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford went into a little more detail about the cover.

“It’s close to five million views on the BLACK SABBATH official site, which is very generous of them to put us on there. ‘Cause we’re friends. We’ve been friends forever. What is cool and what is kind of waiting in the wings is Ozzy singing with me doing ‘War Pigs’ together. We’ve been able to do that. So that’s just kind of — it’s there. We’re just having to go through all the rigmarole of legal clearance and so on and so forth. But when Sharon said, and this is just so beautiful, when she approached me with this idea, she said, ‘I love your version of ‘War Pigs’. Is there a way we can get Ozzy [on it as well]?’ I said, ‘You’re asking me? This is gonna happen.’ So we were able to make it work.

“So you get Ozzy singing a line, and then I’m singing a line and Ozzy’s singing a line and I’m singing a line, and it’s the first-ever time in my entire life that I’ve been able to do a duet with Ozzy. And I’m so eternally grateful and blessed and grieving that I was able to do that. But when you hear it, it’s just colossal. If you think that you’ve heard the one experience of PRIEST’s ‘War Pigs’, but when you hear PRIEST’s ‘War Pigs’ with Ozzy singing on that track, it’s just going to a really special place.”

So yeah, come back and check out the cover tomorrow. Should be interesting, to say the least.

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