New Year’s Eve Ozzfest confirms second stage artists

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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After the surprise New Year’s Eve Ozzfest announcement earlier this week, the names of the artists taking to the second stage have now been revealed

The names of the artists who’ll play the second stage at the special New Year’s Eve Ozzfest have been announced.

It was revealed earlier this week that Ozzy Osbourne (opens in new tab), Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Korn’s Jonathan Davis and Body Count (opens in new tab) would play at The Forum in Los Angeles on December 31.

Now it’s been confirmed that they’ll be joined by Zakk Sabbath, DevilDriver and Wednesday 13.

Now THAT’S what we call a lineup to get excited about!

Revealing Ozzfest, Ozzy said: “I asked Sharon what we’re doing this New Year’s Eve and she said, ‘We’re doing fuck all.’

“So I thought, ‘We didn’t do Ozzfest in 2018, so let’s do a New Year’s Eve Ozzfest.’”

Tickets for the bash are on sale now.

Last week, Ozzy announced that his four postponed US shows from earlier this month would now take place in July next year.

The Prince Of Darkness was forced to pull the plug on the performances due to undergoing surgery on his right hand. Ozzy also went into gruesome detail about the infection, saying that his thumb blew up to ten times it's normal size.

Ozzy will return to the UK and Ireland early next year and has also been confirmed for Download Australia, which will take place in March – and Download Japan, which is scheduled to run on March 21.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.