The astonishing claims about the Birmingham-born Black Sabbath icon, who died last year, were made by American heavy metal star Dee Snider, of Twisted Sister.

In a post on X, he claimed Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler penned all of the band's lyrics.

He also claimed Ozzy's first two solo albums featured lyrics written by Bob Daisley, and that the No More Tears album had contributions from Lemmy Kilmister.

Snider also suggested that Sharon Osbourne "doesn't like to share" while discussing the legacy of Ozzy's music, but aded that while many artisits don't write their own material they can still make songs their own.

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[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, wtf. "The bassist writes the lyrics" has been an Ozzy thing forever. There's nothing wrong with it. Especially in Sabbath. They're a band, people contribute. What's the stink about?

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

IDK who penned the words, the album Paranoid is a masterpiece and nobody else has the vocal style of Ozzy and it is a major reason that it's a masterpiece.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

nobody else has the vocal style of Ozzy

Meanwhile there's a whole industry of doom-metal working off Sabbath's and Ozzy's style. E.g. Druidess, Hail Darkness, Stoned Jesus, Castle Rat, etc.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't know these bands, thank you! I will check them out

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh if you like any of those, I have some for you too. In no particular order, and they don't necessarily sound like Sabbath or Ozzy and they all vary a little, and have varying levels of heavyness, but they follow a general vibe (of one of like 4 genres) that was kinda sorta born from the Sabbath roots (an album rec in parentheses, where remembered lol):

Electric Wizard (Dopethrone), Sleep (Holy Mountain), Acid Witch (Witchtanic Hallucinations), Om (Pilgrimage), Baroness (Red Album), Bongripper, Dozer, Kyuss, Earth (Earth 2), Noothgrush, Neurosis, Dystopia, High on Fire, Mastodon, Orange Goblin, Torche, Inter Arma, Weedeater, Yob.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

I have known a couple of these but I will check out the rest. Thank you friend

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Sabbath basically invented doom metal (together with Beatles), so there are a whole lot of bands paying tribute to them, and imitating Osborne's vocals was quite fashionable in stoner rock. These bands are just what I've found in the past few years, though Stoned Jesus are pretty old. Truckfighters are also somewhat similar.