Black Sabbath crowd boo 'controversial' supergroup at Ozzy Osbourne festival

The inaugural supergroup performance at the Black Sabbath gig yesterday received a polarised response, with a portion of the audience expressing their disapproval through boos. The concert saw some of the biggest names in metal and rock music come together to honour Ozzy Osbourne as he performed for the final time with Black Sabbath.

Huge music stars came together to perform a number of Black Sabbath's hits at his Back to the Beginning festival - however as the first supergroup arrived on stage, some fans weren't too impressed.

"We got our first supergroup of the day. Lzzy Hale is fronting it, one of the only - if not the only - woman on today's bill," Birmingham Live's Kirsty Bosley reported.

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"Members of Faith No More (Mike Bordin), Megadeth (David Ellefson) Ozzy Osbourne's legendary guitarist Jake E Lee. They're playing The Ultimate Sin by Ozzy."

However, she noted that the entrance of a particular artist was met with negative reactions from the fans.

She continued: "David Draiman from Disturbed is now joining them to huge boos from the crowd. He's caused controversy with his political opinions online and the crowd are not welcoming.

"Despite boos, hands are still up in the air to clap along to the Draiman-fronted rendition of 1986 Ozzy track Shot In The Dark."

Disturbed, widely recognised for their sombre cover of Simon and Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence, found their vocalist David Draiman at the centre of controversy post-Glastonbury earlier this week.

Draiman released a video in which he criticised Bob Vylan after they chanted "death, death to the IDF" during their livestreamed set at Glastonbury.

Posting on his Instagram page, Draiman said: " I just wanted to speak my mind a little bit about the events of this past weekend.

"No one should ever use any stage at any festival anywhere in the world to incite hatred and violence against anyone. I think it's disgusting. I think it's irresponsible and contrary to the whole reason people get together at these festivals to begin with."

He added: "More importantly, just from a human perspective, what exactly do you really think you're going to achieve here? You know, death to the IDF. Every citizen of the state of Israel has to serve. Every citizen.

"So you're saying that the majority of world Jews should die, should be killed? That's what you're saying. Good luck with that. Iran saw how easy that wasn't so I'm not sure what you want, what you're trying to achieve other than virtue signalling and instant fame that this selling of Jew hatred has seen to gift everyone with these days."

The Mirror has reached out to David Draiman for comment.

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