Ozzy Osbourne was planning to start work on a new album shortly before his shock death in July.

The Black Sabbath frontman, 76, passed away over the summer - just weeks after he got the group back together for a massive reunion gig in his hometown of Birmingham, UK - and it's now been revealed he was hoping to follow up his final concert with a new record and he'd already asked his longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde to join him in the studio.

Wylde told NJ.com: "He was texting me: 'Zakk, let’s do another record. Because I really loved it when you were going through your Allman Brothers, Skynyrd phase when we did 'No More Tears', it’s heavy but it’s more melodic, it’s not pummeling heavy.'

"So I said: 'Alright Oz, whatever you want'."

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