The first video for the first and title-track to Ozzy Osbourne’s forthcoming (13th) album, Patient Number 9, is all kinds of awesome!
It’s directed by legendary comic book artist Todd McFarlane (Spawn / Spider-Man) and reunites the prince of darkness with the Todd-father since their last collaboration – McFarlane and Osbourne previously worked together on two official Ozzy Osbourne action figures — the first in 1999, and the second in 2004. But McFarlane is no stranger to music videos – he’s directed videos for Pearl Jam, Korn and Disturbed. But Ozzy was a different bird… or bat in this case.
McFarlane told ComicBook.com in an exclusive interview:
“This one, at the beginning, everybody sort of conceded that it was going to — because we were dealing with Patient 9 who was maybe insane — the way to get there and make it the craziest, would be to add the animation element. Mostly because of budget, because you can draw whatever you want and it costs the same amount of money. If you’re trying to film all that, it gets big and expensive. We just went, ‘Hey, once we go into his head, we go into his mind. Why don’t we go animate it — and given that we knew that we were going to have a limited amount of time filming Ozzy himself live, let’s just keep that to the performance, and not worry about sort of the acting part of it. We’ll just get there.”
Ozzy’s Album Patient Number 9 drops – September 9th (9/9)
[YouTube: Ozzy Osbourne] [ComicBook.com]
