A month ago, the Ozzfest social channels teased a return in 2027. Now, Sharon Osbourne has confirmed the pioneering metal festival’s comeback by saying Ozzfest is “absolutely” returning in 2027, while the fest’s official Instagram page doubled down on Tuesday with new graphic simply stating, “Ozzfest Will Return.”
At a panel discussion at the MIDEM music industry conference in Cannes, France, last month (and just uploaded to YouTube a day ago), Sharon declared, “Yes, absolutely,” when asked about Ozzfest’s return in 2027. “Yeah, we’re gonna do it.”
She continued, “Well, the last one we did was 2018. It was just a month before Ozzy [Osbourne] got sick, and that was at the Forum in L.A. And there was no plans to stop it. We were still gonna do it, but Ozzy couldn’t. And Ozzy and I would talk about it, and he’d say, ‘Do you think Ozzfest would work without me?’ And I’m, like, ‘Yeah, it’s a brand. It will work without you.’ And he said, ‘We should do it.’”
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Back in January, Sharon told Billboard she was in talks with Live Nation about bringing Ozzfest back, saying, ““It was something Ozzy was very passionate about: giving young talent a stage in front of a lot of people. We really started metal festivals in this country. It was [replicated but] never done with the spirit of what ours was, because ours was a place for new talent. It was like summer camp for kids.”
Ozzfest, which started in 1996, is credited with helping to launch the careers of such bands as System of a Down, Disturbed, and others. For the most part, the traveling metal fest was either headlined by Ozzy Osbourne or Black Sabbath throughout the years.
See Sharon’s confirmation and Ozzfest’s Instagram post announcing the festival’s impending return below.
