Producer Andrew Watt Explains Why Final Black Sabbath Album Didn’t Come to Be

Producer Andrew Watt has revealed why a final Black Sabbath album with the original four members rumored to be helmed by him didn’t come to pass. Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi had earlier said that he found Watt to be “too excited,” while also explaining that he was happy with ending the legendary metal band’s recording career with 2013’s 13. In an interview with Rolling Stone (watch below), Watt reacted to Iommi’s comments, and gave further insight into why the album never came to be: “That I think was taken out of context. You know me. I’m definitely an excited musician, person. That would be a true statement. But that’s not why it didn’t happen. Ozzy wanted to continue to work and make stuff and we were making music and he had the idea, we were talking about, ‘Let’s try to do something a little different than the two albums that we made.’ Ordinary Man and Patient Number 9 were different albums but they were of the same DNA. So we were like, what could we do that’s different? Do you want to make something with Tony? Should we make an Osbourne/Iommi album? And then [Ozzy] was like, ‘Let’s make a Sabbath album. We didn’t do an album with Bill Ward.’ I think looking back at all the s...