“Big black shape with eyes of fire

Telling people their desire Satan’s sitting there, he’s smiling

Watches those flames get higher and higher

Oh no, no, please God help me!”

Words that the Orlando based studio are soon to bring to life with a Sabbath inspired labyrinth. It will be the only horror attraction to incorporate a 3D video based on the band’s most famous songs and their most recent billboard No. 1 hit ‘13’.

Ozzy Osborne related his enthusiasm for the creation; “We were all really excited when Universal Studios Hollywood approached us about doing a 3D ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ maze based on our music. I’ve seen the drawings of what it will look like when it’s finished and it looks amazing. I can’t wait to walk through it on opening night in September.’ The occasion will be filled with reference to the bands most famous political chillers, from Iron Man to Electric Funeral to Paranoid, all re-invigorated with Satanic figures, bloody corpses and sombre battle-fields.

The creative director of Universal Studio’s, John Murdy, explained why the attraction was so unique; “Very few bands can claim to have defined a genre of music but Black Sabbath’s remarkable influence in the evolution of Heavy Metal will go down in history. Tony Iommi’s dark, iconic riffs, Ozzy Osbourne’s haunting vocals and Geezer Butler’s foreboding lyrics provide the perfect soundtrack for ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ and endless inspiration for our new haunted attraction ‘Black Sabbath 13 3D’.”

This is of course true. Black Sabbath turned jazz-influenced rock ‘n’ roll into an industrial, menacing force in music, quite unlike any other innovators at that time. The best part about it was it was all-natural. Ozzy’s  mewing drawl, which cannot be described as overtly talented, made their outfit all the more sinister and inimitable.