Rumors about a possible one-off reunion show from heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath have been circulating in recent months, and now the band’s drummer is chiming in.

 

Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward parted ways with the metal legends in 2012 citing an “unreasonable contract,” according to NME

 

Ward was replaced drummer Tommy Clufetos after a falling out between Ward and Osbourne, according to Louder.

 

However, the drummer said on social media this week that he’s “in for playing some of everyone’s old favorites.”

 

“Loved playing them then, I’d love to play them one last time,” Ward wrote on X Thursday, July 25. “I’m not going to talk about my health publicly except to say, everyday I’m pretty good for 76 years old, I’m active musically every day, and I have a very busy and gratifying life.”

 

Original Black Sabbath members Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler have all expressed interest in the band playing one last reunion show.

 

Earlier this year, Osbourne said he felt like Black Sabbath’s story was unfinished and that he would love to play with Ward again during an episode of The Madhouse Chronicles, a podcast series hosted by Osbourne and Billy Morrison.

 

“If they wanted to do one more gig with Bill, I would jump at the chance,” Osbourne said, according to Louder. “I was sad that Bill wasn’t there. I mean Tommy Clufetos, my drummer, did a great job. But he ain’t Bill Ward.

 

Iommi, who is the only constant member of Black Sabbath throughout the band’s history, later responded to Osbourne’s comments during an episode of “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk.”

 

Hinting at the band’s turbulent history and multiple line-up changes, the guitarist said, “We’ll be 90 by the time we do that.”

 

“It’d be a nice idea, but you’re going to get everybody going, ‘Oh, they’re doing it for the money. They’re doing it for this, they’re doing it for that,’” Iommi said. “Well, it wouldn’t be. I mean, it’d be something that’d be a nice thing to actually do, but whether it happens will be another thing. But we’ll see. I mean, who knows?”

 

Meanwhile bassist Butler said that he and Osbourne had “agreed” to play one last concert, Blabbermouth reported in May.

 

“Of course there’s an interest [on my part to do it], but there’s a big ‘but’ — you’d have to speak to Bill [Ward] about it,” Butler reportedly said during another episode of “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk.”

 

“Everybody wants to do it [but I don’t know if he is] capable [of pulling it off],” the bassist reportedly said.

 

This came after Osbourne’s wife and manager Sharon Osbourne said the Prince Of Darkness was planning “two more shows to say goodbye” before he fully retires.

 

However, Osbourne’s Parkinson’s disease and recovery from multiple surgeries could make a reunion show for Sabbath difficult.

 

Last November, Osbourne said a live comeback may not be possible due to his ongoing health issues.

 

“I’m taking it one day at a time, and if I can perform again, I will,” the 75-year-old told Rolling Stone UK at the time. “But it’s been like saying farewell to the best relationship of my life.”

 

Osbourne said he was going through a “slow recovery process” after his final operation in January, NME reported at the time.