Ozzfest Confirms It Will Return to U.S. in 2027

After saying that it’s going to contact down in late founder Ozzy Osbourne‘s hometown of Birmingham, U.Okay. subsequent yr, Ozzfest revealed that it’s going to additionally hit the U.S. for the primary time in practically a decade in 2027.

In an Instagram publish on Monday (Sept. 21), the exhausting rock fest wrote, “Ozzfest will come to the U.Okay. and U.S. @theozzfest,” with the caption promising, “Extra Data Coming Quickly!!! The place are you hoping Ozzfest 2027 will pop up?” At press time no extra data was accessible on the cities, dates or lineups for the reboot of the previous touring exhausting rock pageant.

Ozzfest introduced final month that the occasion would happen at Villa Park, Birmingham, the 42,000-capacity stadium that hosted Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell present Again to the Starting, which happened in July 2025; the occasion dates and lineup haven’t but been shared for the Villa Park present.

Ozzfest was cooked up by Ozzy’s spouse and supervisor Sharon Osbourne in 1996 after she was unable to e book Ozzy on the Lollapalooza pageant. Ozzfest then rapidly grew to become a preferred annual touring pageant that introduced a day of exhausting rock to the U.S. and Europe by way of 2008. Since then, it has taken place sporadically, most just lately as a one-day occasion in 2018 at The Discussion board in Inglewood, California, with a lineup that featured Rob Zombie, Physique Depend, Marilyn Manson and others.

Since Ozzy’s passing in 2025 — simply weeks after the Again to the Starting present — Sharon Osbourne has spoken a number of instances about eager to carry Ozzfest again. Chatting with Billboard earlier this yr, Sharon revealed that negotiations with Dwell Nation have been underneath method with plans to carry Ozzfest again in 2027. “It was one thing Ozzy was very captivated with: giving younger expertise a stage in entrance of lots of people,” she mentioned. “We actually began steel festivals on this nation. It was [replicated but] by no means completed with the spirit of what ours was, as a result of ours was a spot for brand spanking new expertise. It was like summer time camp for teenagers.”