JUDAS PRIEST featuring OZZY OSBOURNE – War Pigs (2025) Single

JUDAS PRIEST will release their just recorded version of the BLACK SABBATH classic “War Pigs” featuring Sabbath frontman OZZY OSBOURNE, as a posthumous tribute. The song has been produced & mixed by Priest’s guitarist Andy Sneap using vocal tracks previously recorded by Ozzy. All profits physical CD & vinyl sales of the recording will be donated to The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation and Cure Parkinson’s.

JUDAS PRIEST was unable to appear at SABBATH last-ever performance “Back To The Beginning” on July 5 in Birmingham, United Kingdom, because the band was scheduled to perform at SCORPIONS’ huge hometown 60th-anniversary concert at the Heinz Von Heiden Arena in Hannover, Germany on the very same day.
Rob Halford said; “We were there in spirit, as we said in that brief little thing for Ozzy on the big video screens. And probably even more important, the PRIEST homage to BLACK SABBATH with this cover. It’s not really a version; it’s JUDAS PRIEST playing BLACK SABBATH’s ‘War Pigs’ to about as close as we possibly could. ‘Cause you don’t mess with a song like that. You give it the sounds that you have with your guitars, with your drums, with your bass, with your voice, and you do it in respect, and you do it in a way of saying thank you for BLACK SABBATH and what they did and what they leave us with with their great music.”
In early July, PRIEST released a cover of BLACK SABBATH’s “War Pigs”, the full Judas Priest band. They only made a video-track, this version hasn’t been officially released yet. We have it here as well, audio taken from video.
It’s great to hear JUDAS PRIEST full-band performing this classic, and Halford / Ozzy in a duet.

After hearing the original homage / version of the song, Sharon Osbourne approached Halford with this idea, she said, ‘I love your version of ‘War Pigs’. Is there a way we can get Ozzy [on it as well]?’ Halford said; ‘You’re asking me? This is gonna happen.’
Halford; “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”.

1 – War Pigs [feat. Ozzy] (8:05)
2 – War Pigs [Judas Priest homage] (8:11)

ROB HALFORD & OZZY OSBOURNE – VOCALS
GLENN TIPTON – GUITARS
RICHIE FAULKNER – GUITARS
IAN HILL – BASS
ANDY SNEAP – GUITARS
SCOTT TRAVIS – DRUMS

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