British metal juggernauts Black Sabbath have been scaring squares and melting faces for more than four-and-a-half decades now, and while it's always been a given that all good things must come to an end, it never makes it any easier (or believable) when a veteran band says they're calling it a day.
However, Sabbath — or at least founding members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, minus estranged drummer Bill Ward — aren't sailing their dark sails into the sunset without saying goodbye, and Australian (and Kiwi) fans are well looked after in the first announcement of locations for the band's just-unveiled 2016 The End tour.
Kicking off the Australian leg at Perth Arena on Friday 15 April, Black Sabbath will tour to Adelaide Entertainment Centre (17 April), Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena (19 April), Sydney's Allphones Arena (23 April) and Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Anzac Day (25 April). New Zealand friends get a look-in on Thursday 28 April, at Vector Arena, Auckland, and on Saturday 30 April, at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium. And, regardless of how little you want to believe it, the band is adamant that, "when this tour concludes, it will truly be the end".
If you missed them in action the last time they were here, you won't have another chance to make up for it, so move fast — Tickets for all shows go on sale from 10am on Monday 21 September.
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