{"id":46719,"date":"2025-09-16T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/judas-priest-and-ozzy-osbourne-war-pigs-cover-will-be-released-soon\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:20:03","slug":"judas-priest-and-ozzy-osbourne-war-pigs-cover-will-be-released-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/judas-priest-and-ozzy-osbourne-war-pigs-cover-will-be-released-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne &#8216;War Pigs&#8217; Cover Will Be Released Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the first ever time in my entire life that I\u2019ve been able to do a duet with Ozzy,&#8221; Rob Halford said about collaborating with the metal legend who died in July <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/judas-priest\/\" id=\"auto-tag_judas-priest\" data-tag=\"judas-priest\">Judas Priest<\/a> are working behind the scenes to get clearance permission to release an official cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/black-sabbath\/\" id=\"auto-tag_black-sabbath\" data-tag=\"black-sabbath\">Black Sabbath<\/a>\u2018s \u201cWar Pigs\u201d featuring the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozzy-osbourne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ozzy-osbourne\" data-tag=\"ozzy-osbourne\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>. During a recent appearance on the<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rob-halford-the-metal-god-on-the-fmj-radio-show-weekend\/id487533355?i=1000726985556\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<em>Full Metal Jackie<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>podcast, frontman Rob Halford\u00a0detailed the process of recording the duet with Osbourne prior to the metal legend\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-dead-obituary-1227265\/\">death in July. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cOzzy\u2019s singing a line and then I\u2019m singing a line, and Ozzy\u2019s singing a line and I\u2019m singing a line,\u201d Halford said. \u201cIt\u2019s the first ever time in my entire life that I\u2019ve been able to do a duet with Ozzy and I\u2019m so eternally grateful and blessed that I was able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHalford revealed that Sharon Osbourne was responsible for bringing them together. She took a liking to the \u201cWar Pigs\u201d cover Judas Priest have performed at other points in their career. \u201cShe approached me with this idea, she said, \u2018I love your version of War Pigs. Is there a way we can get Ozzy?\u2019\u201d Halford recalled. \u201cI was [like], \u2018You\u2019re asking me? This is gonna happen!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHalford didn\u2019t share an official timeline for when the duet was recorded, or when it will be officially released, but noted that \u201cthe green button\u2019s almost ready to go\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s gonna be pretty soon.\u201d In the meantime, the musician is setting the anticipatory bar high. \u201cWhen you hear it, it\u2019s just colossal,\u201d he said. \u201cYou think that you\u2019ve heard the one experience of Priest\u2019s \u2018War Pigs,\u2019 but when you hear Priest\u2019s \u2018War Pigs\u2019 with Ozzy singing on that track, it\u2019s just going to a really special place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFor now, posthumous musical appearances from Osbourne have not yet been released. The musician died of a heart attack on July 22, after which Halford \u201ccurled up in a ball and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/judas-priest-rob-halford-ozzy-osbourne-death-1235411919\/\">bawled my eyes out <\/a>for hours.\u201d Osbourne did appear briefly in the finale of<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-posthumous-appearance-lego-masters-jr-1235425534\/\"><em>Lego Masters Jr.<\/em>,<\/a> the series hosted by his daughter, Kelly Osbourne.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/judas-priest-ozzy-osbourne-war-pigs-cover-tease-1235428183\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the first ever time in my entire life that I\u2019ve been able to do a duet with Ozzy,&#8221; Rob Halford said about collaborating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}