SYSTEM OF A DOWN honored heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne on Wednesday, August 27 with a special performance of the BLACK SABBATH classic “Snowblind” during their show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Before launching into the track, guitarist and vocalist Daron Malakian addressed the crowd, reflecting on the band’s early days: “When we first started out, they put us on the road and we toured. And New York [and] New Jersey are some of the first places we toured in the United States. And there was one tour that never did more for SYSTEM OF A DOWN: the Ozzfest. We did a few Ozzfests. Some of you are old enough that you were there. Some of you weren’t even born yet. I wanna thank Ozzy Osbourne. We wanna thank Ozzy Osbourne.”
The performance marked SYSTEM OF A DOWN‘s first performance of “Snowblind” since 2002. The cover originally appeared on the 2000 compilation “Nativity In Black II”, the second installment in a series of BLACK SABBATH tribute albums.
