A bevy of bands who are currently on tour paid tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne during their Tuesday (July 22nd) gigs, including some of his fellow rockers: Pantera, Primus, and Ghost.
Pantera have been covering Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan” for years, having famously included a studio version on 1994’s Far Beyond Driven. Their performance of the song on Tuesday night in Cincinnati was particularly somber and spine-chilling, however, as the band played an accompanying tribute video to Ozzy on the big screen, featuring pics from throughout late singer’s life.
As for Primus, the band didn’t have an immediate Sabbath/Ozzy cover in their back pocket, but Les Claypool and company did sprinkle in bits and pieces throughout their set in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A tease of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” could be heard during opening song “Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers,” and the band later played a partial version of “Crazy Train” — featuring images of Ozzy on the big screen — before tossing in the riff from Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” as the intro to “HOINFODAMAN.”
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Meanwhile, Ghost acknowledged Ozzy’s passing during their gig at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Although the band didn’t cover any material, frontman Papa V Perpetua, aka Tobias Forge, did take a moment midway through the set to dedicate the sold-out MSG show to Ozzy, inciting chants from the crowd: “Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy!” Forge told the audience, “For being the Prince of Darkness, he sure gave us a lot of light.”
In Consequence’s recent cover story on Ghost, Forge told us, “The influence that Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne have had on me is absolutely immense. I fucking love Ozzy. I think he’s amazing, a huge influence for me… I can’t really thank them enough.”
Watch footage of each tribute below.
Pantera played their version of the Black Sabbath song Planet Caravan tonight as a tribute to Ozzy. It was awesome. RIP Ozzy pic.twitter.com/g0ZymmPP1f
— Greg (@giggitygreg) July 23, 2025