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"God Is Dead?" is a song by English rock band Black Sabbath, the second track on their nineteenth studio album, 13 (2013). It was released as the album's lead single on 19 April 2013, the first Black Sabbath release with Ozzy Osbourne since "Psycho Man" and "Selling My Soul" from Reunion (1998).
God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. ––And we––we still have to vanquish his shadow, too. [17] Still in The Gay Science, the expression is stated through the voice of the "madman", in "The Madman", as follows: God is dead. God remains dead.
On 2 June 2012, Osbourne told NME that Black Sabbath had written "about 15 songs so far." He also said that 2013 was a good clue as to what the album would be called. [31] The band returned to the studio to continue work on the album on 23 August 2012. [32] An interview that October confirmed the title of one of the new songs, "God Is Dead?". [33]
The theme of God's "death" became more explicit in the theosophism [clarification needed] of the 18th- and 19th-century mystic William Blake.In his intricately engraved illuminated books, Blake sought to throw off the dogmatism of his contemporary Christianity and, guided by a lifetime of vivid visions, examine the dark, destructive, and apocalyptic undercurrent of theology.
Ozzy, with the help of his manager/wife Sharon Osbourne, quickly embraced the bat mythology, as it were, as part of his “Prince of Darkness” persona, and never really tried to live it down.
The statement "God is dead," occurring in several of Nietzsche's works (notably in The Gay Science), has become one of his best-known remarks. On the basis of it, many commentators [ 174 ] regard Nietzsche as an atheist ; others (such as Kaufmann) suggest that this statement might reflect a more subtle understanding of divinity.
Jack Black lavished praise on Ozzy Osbourne last night (October 19) as the actor inducted the rock icon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.. Osbourne, 75, was being honored by the institution for ...
A disgruntled Ozzy Osbourne was forced to debunk reports of his demise, after stumbling across his own image in an “in memoriam” video online.. The Black Sabbath frontman, 75, can be heard in ...