“It was like watching Muhammad Ali shadow box – that intense”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on watching Black Sabbath soundcheck at Back To The Beginning

Ozzy Osbourne and Robert Trujillo in 2006.

Metallica’s Robert Trujillo has revealed what it was like watching Black Sabbath soundcheck for their final concert, Back To The Beginning.

Talking on a recent episode of Metallica’s official podcast The Metallica Report, the bassist says that he saw people weeping as three members of Sabbath – guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward – prepared for their swansong at Villa Park in their hometown of Birmingham on July 5.