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At the big farewell concert by Black Sabbath on July 5, 2025 in Villa Park in Birmingham, Guns N ‘Roses surprised with a set that mainly consisted of Sabbath-coverers. And a faux pas: The band had to cancel the first song and start again. Axl Rose tinted: “That was my mistake”. Then he asked the audience: “Can you hear me?” Shortly afterwards it actually started – and the band opened her set with “Never Say Die” by Black Sabbath.
Guns n ‘Roses play Black Sabbath
Many of the other bands were also ready, but Axl Rose, Slash and Co. meant particularly seriously that evening. Your six songs comprehensive set consisted of four Black-Sabbath cover numbers. GnR opened with “It’s Alright”, followed by “Never Say Die!”, “Junior’s Eyes” and “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”. It was only as a fifth song that there was something of its own “Welcome to the Jungle”. The set was finished with “Paradise City”.
Who has been covering Sabbath so far
Black Sabbath or Ozzy Osbourne Tribute also paid many other bands and artists of the evening – partly with a single song, partly with a whole cover block. Rival Sons, for example, played “Electric Funeral”, while Anthrax had the song “Into the Void”. Halestorm interpreted “Perry Mason” from Ozzy’s solo phase, Lamb of God made a dark version of “Children of the Grave”.
Gojira ventured to “Under the Sun”, while Pantera with “Planet Caravan” and again “Electric Funeral” integrated two atmospheric sabbath pieces into their set. Tool also rely on depth and covered “Hand of Doom”.
Slayer played “Wicked World”. The appearance of Supergroup A with members such as Lzzy Hale, David Draiman, Yungblud, Nuno Bettencourt and Adam Wakeman was particularly comprehensive. You set almost exclusively of covers: “Ultimate Sin”, “Shot in the Dark”, “Sweet Leaf”, “Believer” and an emotional version of “Changes”, sung by Yungblud.
Another Allstar line-up-with Billy Corgan, Steven Tyler, Tom Morello, Ron Wood, Chad Smith and many others-presented a mix of Sabbath and Ozzy classics: “Symptom of the Universe”, “Snowblind”, “Flying High Again” and as a noisy end Aerosmith classic “Train Kept a Rollin ‘”.