PARADISE LOST’s NICK HOLMES Recollects Touring With OZZY OSBOURNE In 1995: ‘It Was Fairly Surreal’

In a brand new interview with Primordial Radio, PARADISE LOST singer Nick Holmes was requested if he has ever had any encounters with late BLACK SABBATH singer Ozzy Osbourne. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah. We performed with SABBATHand we performed with Ozzy. We did a tour with Ozzy in South America in 1995. We did a full South American tour, enviornment tour. Yeah, it was implausible. Yeah, I met him a couple of instances over time. Nice, nice man. [I was] actually unhappy [to hear about his passing]. Yeah. Prime man.”

Elaborating on what it was like for PARADISE LOST to tour with Ozzy three many years in the past, Nick mentioned: “Yeah, it was fairly surreal. It was the Monsters Of Rock [in] South America. There was PL, there was THERAPY? on it as effectively, and THERAPY? have been similar to we have been; they could not imagine they have been on that tour. After which there was Alice Cooper, Ozzy, MEGADETH and FAITH NO MORE. And I do not know what number of days we did — it was a couple of weeks. However I obtained salmonella poisoning, really, in Mexico Metropolis. And I used to be actually, actually ailing for a couple of exhibits and I used to be type of puking up always. After I was on stage, I used to be puking up as effectively. So that they needed to get me a bucket so I did not break Ozzy‘s carpet. So that they obtained me a bucket. So that they mentioned, ‘Are you able to puke within the bucket, please, as a result of we do not need you to mess up Ozzy‘s carpet?’ ‘Trigger he used to go barefoot on the carpet at the moment. So, yeah, I needed to type of go across the nook and throw up within the bucket. I believe as he talked about us in an interview a couple of years later, and he variety remembered us solely due to that, the puking factor. However, yeah, it was very surreal to do this tour. It was loopy. And there have been so many individuals at exhibits. It was insanity. Yeah. It was nice.”

Again in 2017, PARADISE LOST guitarist Gregor Waterproof coat named BLACK SABBATH‘s 1971 effort “Grasp Of Actuality” one of many 10 albums that “blew” his thoughts. He mentioned on the time: “I’ve to decide on the ‘Grasp Of Actuality’ album as a result of it is probably the most uncooked, with a sludgy guitar tone. It is obtained a number of the most evil, if not groovy, riffs — like ‘Lord Of This World’. And, clearly, [Tony] Iommi‘s soloing and easy manner of taking part in. Then I went by way of every little thing from BLACK SABBATH and I like every little thing now. However ‘Grasp Of Actuality’ is admittedly the one for me, as a result of it sits proper in that type of sludgy, gradual doom I used to be actually moving into on the time.”

PARADISE LOST‘s seventeenth album, “Ascension”, got here out on September 19 through Nuclear Blast Data. The band’s first LP in 5 years, following 2020’s critically acclaimed “Obsidian”, was produced by Gregor Waterproof coat and combined/mastered by Lawrence Mackrory.

PARADISE LOST carried out alongside KING DIAMOND and at festivals in Europe this summer season earlier than embarking on the primary half its “Ascension Of Europe” tour this fall.