The documentary We Sold Our Souls For Rock 'N' Roll , about Ozzfest, will be released.
Director Penelope Spheeris confirmed the release and spoke about the project to The Metal Voice ( via Blabbermouth ): “I went to the Motion Picture Academy Museum [in August] because they recently screened We Sold Our Souls For Rock 'N' Roll , which is a film I made with Sharon and Ozzy [Osbourne] 20 years ago. And it was never released.”
"It has Black Sabbath , the original Black Sabbath, and Slipknot , Rob Zombie , System Of A Down , it has Godsmack , Fear Factory , blah, blah, blah, blah, ten bands in it, with Buckethead playing guitar in a cemetery. And it's a great movie. And Sharon says she's going to release it now. After twenty years."
The film, shot in the late 1990s, has been shown at some film festivals, but never on a large scale. The director doesn't have a release date because she's hesitant to "bother Sharon right now. She has a lot going on right now. But I'll get in touch next week and do what I can to help her release the film."
About the documentary
According to Spheeries, the documentary “is like you’re going on tour at Ozzfest and seeing all these bands. I got on a tour bus and went to, like, thirty cities and filmed all ten bands. And I respect the bands. Slayer is in the film. Whatever city we went to – like, for example, San Francisco, we were there. And I said, ‘Oh, where can I film Slayer? Oh, Alcatraz.’ Okay.”
'Oh, Slipknot. We're in DC. Where can I film Slipknot? Oh, at the National Monument.' So you see Slipknot walking through the National Monument in front of Abraham Lincoln . I put them in different locations and went backstage with all the bands and Ozzy; I did a lot of things with Ozzy backstage.”
Why did Ozzfest end?
Ozzfest was a major festival headlined by Ozzy Osbourne. The first edition took place in 1996 and it became an annual event for almost ten years.
Despite this, the frequency decreased over the years, resulting in its last edition in 2017. In an episode of The Osbournes , Sharon Osbourne commented that what led them to end the activities was "because it simply wasn't profitable."
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