“It’s strange to think about a world without The Prince of Darkness…”  It all started on February 13, 1970, with the ominous sounds of chapel bells, thunder, and pouring rain, and it all ended with an emotionally charged, worldwide downpour of tears from fans across the planet on July 22, 2025, the day that OZZY OSBOURNE, The Prince Of Darkness, bade this world farewell and passed into eternity. Ozzy, for many metal heads, represents “the “beginning” of the heavy metal journey. With a “creepy and unsettling” voice that sounded like no one else before or after him, he was, for all intents and purposes, “the first and the last” of his kind in metal, helping to lay the foundations for the countless heavy metal subgenres that would follow and spawning legions of metal heads that would loyally follow him across multiple generations.  Get ready to “quit dick-docking around” for a little bit because it’s time to JOIN US as we “bless that man & bless that band” and pay tribute to the man who helped birth “the most powerful genre of music in the world” as we salute and bid a fond farewell to The Prince Of Darkness with OZZY OSBOURNE – IN MEMORIAM. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merchand kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “She hangs out…but she doesn’t run off…I said ‘Hey lady’…”/ #markthetime / #Dice / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST, NOW (SADLY) IN A #POSTOZZYWORLD *** / #shizirt / “I know but “just do it already…quit dick docking around…”   (03:11): #PatreonShoutOut ***JOIN US ON THE PATREON AT patreon.com/metalnerdery.com ***/ #TomDick / ***JOIN US on the Social Media at #metalnerderypodcast on #Instagram #Facebook #YouTube and #TikTok ***/ #drumfill / “That was not gay…” / ***LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “I have missed that sound…so much…”/ #PissingPost / “We all knew it was coming…”/ “It’s almost like if suddenly oceans didn’t have water anymore…”/ “Since we’re already in this space…”   (07:56): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: OZZY OSBOURNE – IN MEMORIAM / A #eulogy for #ThePrinceOfDarkness #OzzyOsbourne / Our earliest memories of Ozzy / “His voice as a solo artist was different to me than his voice in Sabbath…”/ “It was a little creepy and unsettling…”/ “He doesn’t sound like anyone else…”/ “I never had any friends that had parents with cool record collections…”/ “Married his 14 year old…cousin…”/ “All our heroes were doing this in the 70’s…”/ “You didn’t realize how mainstream Ozzy was until Tuesday…”/ “He had to do the vocal words…”/ “After you heard the news…what was the first Ozzy song you heard?”   (19:44): “It’s gonna be #OzzyDay from now on…”/ July 22, 2025 #RIP #OzzyOsbourne / “From here on out…”/ “He’s ALWAYS been there…”/ MAMA I’M COMING HOME (No More Tears – 1990) from #JacobDavisGuitar / “The window’s open, the breeze flowing…your balls are out…”/ “Like old #MichaelHedges style…”/ #acousticguitarplayers / “He’s kind of The God of Heavy Metal…”/ “I feel like #TheOsbournes made him more relatable…”/ “She kept that man alive…him and his career…”/ “Think about your parents…Ozzy has always looked like Ozzy…” / #BackToTheBeginning is being proposed to be an annual event/ “The most powerful genre of music in the world…there’s no #PopNerdery podcast, how about that?”   (29:52): “Here’s a thought…”/ #TheFirstAndTheLast #BlackSabbath and #OzzyOsbourne / “Bless that man and bless that band…”/ BLACK SABBATH (Black Sabbath – 1970) / “Get to the fast part…”/ “Vita-macta…facta-mica…”/ P