Black Label Society Release Official Music Video for 'Ozzy's Song' — Watch
Black Label Society have released the official music video for "Ozzy's Song," the closing track from their twelfth studio album Engines of Demolition, out March 27 on MNRK Heavy. The video was directed by Justin H. Reich of Three Thirty-three Creative.
Written on the Same Guitar
The detail that defines this video — and the song behind it — is the instrument Zakk Wylde used to write it. He reached for "The Grail," a Les Paul guitar from his collection that he used in his first writing sessions with Ozzy Osbourne roughly 40 years ago. The choice wasn't incidental.
Wylde wrote the music for "Ozzy's Song" before Osbourne passed away in July 2025. The song existed structurally — the riffs were in place, the emotional architecture was set. What wasn't there yet were the words. Those came later, at home, after the tour dates were done and the noise died down.
Wylde described the process in a conversation with Guitar World: "I wrote the music before Oz passed away. But after Oz passed away, when we went back to England and we laid Ozzy to rest, when I got right from that, I went straight to Pantera celebrations with Phil, Rex, and Charlie. And then when I got done, when we got done with the Pantera celebration run, when I got home, I was just sitting in the house — and this is when I wrote the lyrics and just sang the song. I was just thinking about Oz, and then I just wrote the lyrics."
That sequence matters. The music was already complete before the loss. The loss turned it into something else.
The History Behind the Song
Zakk Wylde first joined Ozzy Osbourne's band in 1987 at age 20, recruited after a home audition that Osbourne and his wife Sharon arranged after hearing a demo tape. He went on to record six studio albums with Ozzy: No Rest for the Wicked (1988), No More Tears (1991), Ozzmosis (1995), Down to Earth (2001), Scream (2010), and the final Ozzy solo record, Patient Number 9 (2022).
The relationship ran across nearly four decades — through personnel changes, multiple band departures and returns, and two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions for Ozzy (with Black Sabbath in 2006). Wylde's guitar style — the heavily pinch-harmonic, blues-drenched, Les Paul-through-a-Marshall sound — became as central to the Ozzy Osbourne live experience as Ozzy himself for large stretches of that era.
"Ozzy's Song" ends Engines of Demolition in the final track slot. It does not attempt to be a formal tribute or an obituary. It is quieter than that, built around the kind of loss that doesn't require announcement — the type you carry in the room with you long after the room has changed.
The Album Context
Engines of Demolition is Black Label Society's first studio album since Doom Crew Inc. (2021), and by most accounts the most emotionally weighted record in the band's catalog. Wylde recorded at his home studio, the Black Vatican, with the album taking shape across four years before Ozzy's death added a layer of meaning that was not in the original architecture of the record.
The album runs 15 tracks. The sequencing is intentional — the record builds toward "Ozzy's Song" rather than placing the tribute piece early or out of context. It earns its position at the end.
Directed by Justin H. Reich of Three Thirty-three Creative, the clip matches the emotional register of the song — understated, weighted, not built for the kind of theatrical excess that defines a lot of tribute content in this genre. It is not a lyric video, not a slideshow of archive photos, not a montage. It functions as a visual extension of what Wylde actually wrote: something built in private, for a specific reason, without performance for its own sake.
On Tour Now
Black Label Society are currently running a North American headline tour. Wylde is doing double duty on the run, with his Black Sabbath tribute act Zakk Sabbath opening each night. The tour continues through early April.
If you haven't yet caught this run live, the setlist has drawn from across the BLS catalog — and "Ozzy's Song" has been performed live for the first time this cycle. Seeing Wylde play a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne on the same guitar used to write it, in front of a room of people who grew up with both of them, is a different experience than listening through a speaker.
