Huge Hollywood star to host Black Sabbath's final show at Villa Park in Birmingham
Hollywood star Jason Momoa is set to host Black Sabbath's final ever show at Villa Park on Saturday, July 5.
The Aquaman actor is a huge fan of heavy metal and he will host the all-day event to mark Ozzy Osbourne's final ever gig.
The show features a huge line-up of stars including Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer and Gojira.
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Now more bands have been added to the line-up, which is already being named 'the greatest heavy metal show ever' by music director Tom Morello.
Tool, Guns N' Roses and Rival sons are joining those set to appear alongside Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Andrew Watt, Dave Ellefson, Vernon Reid, from Living Colour and Whitfield Crane from Ugly Kid Joe.
The special event sold out quickly last week as a number of presales across the week attracted more than 100,000 hopeful fans.
Villa Park has a capacity of 40,000 so when tickets went on general sale on Friday, February 14, most were gone within minutes.
Black Sabbath original members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward haven't played together for 20 years and will come together in the neighbourhood where their band started more than 50 years ago.
Announcing the gig on February 5, Ozzy said: "It's my time to go Back to the Beginning... time for me to give back to the place where I was born.
"How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love.
"Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham Forever."
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