Ozzfest comes back in 2027 with three days, and one of them is somewhere it has never been.
It opens at The National Bowl in Milton Keynes on Saturday 10 July, returns to the Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino on 11 September, the ground where the whole thing started in 1996, and then goes to the Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City on 18 September. Thirty one years and this is the first Mexican edition.
It is also the first without Ozzy Osbourne, who died last year after the Back To The Beginning concert, and the first of any kind since New Year's Eve 2018 at The Forum in Los Angeles.
Sharon Osbourne is curating the bills and says the festival will always remain part of his legacy. That is the whole question the 2027 edition has to answer: whether a festival built around one man on stage works as a memorial to him, or whether it only works while he is on it.
Live Nation promote it and the line-ups come in the following months.