Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler spoke with the San Gabriel Valley Tribune about the band’s current North American tour as well as the 3D maze "Black Sabbath: 13 3D" at Universal Studios Hollywood's premier Halloween Horror Nights event, which opens September 20.
"They showed us the images of the maze, the drawings and photographs of the masks and the thing that they're making for it and explained the whole structure of it," said Butler. "It's a maze and each part of the maze is based on particular lyrics from the old songs, so it's really good, it's really interesting. Once it's built, we're going out to visit it and have a tour of it. It will probably frighten us all to death."
The new maze, based on the darkest lyrics from Black Sabbath’s biggest songs and the only attraction at the horror event to incorporate 3D video, will also include scenes inspired by the band’s recently-released album, “13.”
Guests will come face to face with a heart-stopping Lucifer and his bride, blood-soaked dead bodies and bubbling pools of “radioactive water” while rocking to classics like “Iron Man”, “Paranoid”, “War Pigs”, “Electric Funeral” and “Black Sabbath.”
“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,” said John Murdy, Creative Director for Universal Studios Hollywood. “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.”
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