Black Sabbath announce new album, final tour

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Black Sabbath will record a new album and embark on a final tour.

Sixty-five-year-old frontman Ozzy Osbourne announced the news in an interview with Metal Hammer. Black Sabbath last released 13 in 2013, and the album's success encouraged the group to collaborate on one more record.

"The whole Sabbath experience this time around was great," the singer related. "We all made friends, we didn't [expletive] around, we all knew that we had a job to do, and we did it. It was a lot of fun. So we're going to do one more album and a final tour."

The new album will be the band's 20th studio release, and Osbourne expects to begin recording in early 2015. 13 producer Rick Rubin is expected to produce the record.

"It'll be sooner rather than later," he predicted. "Obviously a lot of it is coming down to Tony's health, he's obviously got his cancer treatment, but we'll get onto it next year. I don't know if we'll be writing in England or LA, but I'll fly to the [expletive]ing moon for it if I have to!"

13 debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and also topped the U.K. Albums Chart -- their first record to do so since 1970's Paranoid. The album has sold over 1 million copies as of July.