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Metallica’s Robert Trujillo: Playing Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning Fest Is the ‘Closing of a Chapter’
Metallica's Robert Trujillo talks to Billboard about playing Black Sabbath's Back to the Beginning festival, saying its the "closing of a chapter."
Being part of the Back to the Beginning festival — Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne ‘s final live performances — on July 5 in Birmingham, England, will be special for the myriad musicians involved. He co-wrote songs for 2001’s Down to Earth and recorded fresh bass parts for 2002 reissues of Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, and introduced his signature, sumo-like “crab walk” stage move while playing Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” with Osbourne. Trujillo says Metallica was one of the first bands approached to be part of the Back to the Beginning event, whose lineup also includes Guns N’ Roses, Slayer, Tool, Patera, Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Sammy Hagar, Billy Corgan and many more, with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello serving as music director.
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