{"id":973456,"date":"2019-11-12T10:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=911204"},"modified":"2019-11-12T10:56:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T17:56:27","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-ozzy-osbournes-heavy-elegy-under-the-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-ozzy-osbournes-heavy-elegy-under-the-graveyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s Heavy Elegy \u2018Under the Graveyard\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the past year or so, Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> has been going through hell. He has overcome a serious staph infection, and now he\u2019s recovering from a fall that has forced him to postpone nearly two years of tour dates. And now that he\u2019s on his journey back, judging from his new single, \u201cUnder the Graveyard,\u201d the Prince of Darkness does not sound pleased.<\/p>\n

The tune is a heartbreaking elegy for himself \u2014 \u201cDeath doesn\u2019t answer when I cry for help,\u201d he sings over stark acoustic guitar in the first verse \u2014 and the self-pity would make it too sad to listen to if it weren\u2019t for prayers of hope like \u201cI don\u2019t wanna be my enemy\u201d and \u201cI ain\u2019t livin\u2019 this lie no more\u201d jutting out of the shadows like bones in a catacomb.<\/p>\n

Then again, doom and gloom is what makes an Ozzy song great, and it\u2019s what makes this one a keeper. The ornately gothic acoustic guitars recall his classic, morose songs \u201cDiary of a Madman\u201d and \u201cKiller of Giants,\u201d while the crushing heavy riffs toward the end of the song evokes the Sabbath swing. But it also sounds wholly new for Ozzy, who (unbelievably?) collaborated with Post Malone producer Andrew Watt on the track and subsequently tried a few new things in the process.<\/p>\n

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There has never been a turnaround in an Ozzy song before like the track\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t take care of me\/Be scared of me\u201d prechorus, which almost sounds caught between a tango and a Texas shuffle and yet still like a modern pop song \u2014 and somehow it fits. Plus, Watt played guitar on the track, and even though he plays pretty standard rock & roll pentatonic spitfire licks in the solo, he uses guitar effects that also sound sort of robotic, giving the tune a postmodern feel for Ozzy. It comes down to combo of Guns N\u2019 Roses bassist Duff McKagan<\/a> and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith<\/a> in the rhythm section to give the song a live feel, which, when combined with Watt\u2019s experiments, makes the song feel fresh yet not too far afield.<\/p>\n

The jury\u2019s still out on the wording of \u201cunder the graveyard\u201d \u2014 is it sort of like a tar pit where bones have liquefied with time and dripped down beneath the sepulchers? \u2014 but the sentiment cuts through. Ozzy\u2019s sick of toughing out his ailments and he\u2019s ready to move on to the next thing. For as much as it all sounds like wallowing, the tune ends with a warning, or possibly words of encouragement, depending on how you look at it: \u201cWe all die alone.\u201d It\u2019s Ozzy saying he\u2019s ready to climb out of the grave and join the living, reaper be damned.<\/p>\n

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Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections on Spotify<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past year or so, Ozzy Osbourne has been going through hell. He has overcome a serious staph infection, and now he\u2019s recovering from a fall that has forced him to postpone nearly two years of tour dates. And now that he\u2019s on his journey back, judging from his new single, \u201cUnder the Graveyard,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 09:44:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}