Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward have announced they're getting the group together again for a tour - but it won't include former lead singer Ozzy Osbourne. The will keep the singer who replaced him in the 1980s: Ronnie James Dio, according to a spokesman for the three.
Osbourne originally left the band over battles concerning his drug abuse.
The tour is scheduled for early next year and will be called Heaven and Hell - after the first album Dio performed on with the group.
Osbourne evidently doesn't recognize the tour or group as Black Sabbath, saying on his official website, "Tony Iommi and Ronnie Dio are working on a project together which has nothing to do with Black Sabbath. There is only one Black Sabbath."
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