Ozzy Osbourne on receiving 4 Grammy nods: “I’m overwhelmed”

Ozzy Osbourne has responded to receiving 4 Grammy nominations for his newest album ‘Affected person Quantity 9’, saying that he’s “actually overwhelmed”.

The previous Black Sabbath frontman is within the operating for Greatest Rock Efficiency and Greatest Rock Track for the ‘Affected person Quantity 9’ title monitor (feat. Jeff Beck) in addition to Greatest Metallic Efficiency (‘Degradation Guidelines’) and Greatest Rock Album.

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It marks probably the most nominations Osbourne has ever acquired for a single studio document. He has received three Grammys up to now, and had eight nominations in whole previous to this week’s announcement.

Throughout a latest Q&A (through Consequence), the Prince Of Darkness stated: “I’m actually overwhelmed. Making this document was a good way to me to get again to work as I continued to heal. It’s fairly nice to be acknowledged at this level in my profession.”

Osbourne additionally recalled how the COVID pandemic had afforded him the time and house to create a brand new album so quickly after ‘Strange Man’ (2020).

“Properly, the factor was I had all this time – all of us did via the pandemic,” he defined. “As an alternative of mendacity there and simply doing my bodily remedy, the document really acquired me doing one thing that I like.

“I used to be fascinated about the instances we’ve been residing in. There wasn’t a lot excellent news. It was a fucking conflict in Ukraine and the pandemic. The world appeared to be on the point of a nasty factor.”

Osbourne continued: “The enterprise perpetually surprises me. It’s by no means a protected guess. I’ve carried out issues prior to now the place I inform myself, ‘That is going to be successful’. Then it’s gone down the shitter and different issues I’ve carried out… it’s carried out the alternative. I’m very cheered up by the help.”

Talking concerning the Grammy nod for ‘Degradation Guidelines’ (which options Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi), the singer stated: “I imply that music would’ve made an amazing Black Sabbath monitor. It’s a really well-structured music.

“I’ve identified Tony since I used to be 12 years outdated and I’m glad to say we’ve continued a extremely good friendship. Tony’s been very supportive of me whereas I’ve been recovering from surgical procedure. He’s been in fixed contact, which has been nice.”

The sixty fifth Grammy Awards ceremony is scheduled to happen on the Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles on February 5, 2023. Try the complete record of nominees right here.

In a four-star evaluate of ‘Affected person Quantity 9’, NME hailed the album as “magnificent” and “a fizzing piece of hard-rock magic”.

In the meantime, Ozzy Osbourne has stated he desires an “unknown” actor to play him within the forthcoming biopic about he and Sharon’s life.