**Tobias Forge Honors Ozzy Osbourne at Madison Square Garden: “This One’s for the Prince”**
On Tuesday night, in front of a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden, Ghost frontman Tobias Forge—performing as Papa V Perpetua—brought an entire arena to a hush. As the lights dimmed and the stage settled between songs, Forge stepped to the mic and delivered a quiet, devastating tribute to a fallen legend.
“This one’s for the Prince,” he said, his voice somber. “Not of this city, not of this stage, but of darkness itself.”
Ozzy Osbourne, the man who defined an entire era of metal and rebellion, had died that very morning. Just 17 days earlier, Forge had stood beside him at Black Sabbath’s epic farewell concert, *Back to the Beginning*, at Villa Park in Birmingham. That night, he had performed a searing rendition of *‘Bark at the Moon’*, honoring the icon who inspired so much of his theatrical, genre-bending vision.
But Tuesday night was something different.
Right before launching into *‘The Future Is a Foreign Land’*, Forge paused the theatrics and peeled back the mask—figuratively and literally. “There would be no Ghost without Ozzy,” he told the crowd. “There would be no me. He showed us all how to be strange and sacred, wild and human, at the same time.”
The crowd erupted in applause and scattered sobs, cell phone lights flickering like candles in a cathedral of sound.
And then came the music—hard, epic, and laced with sorrow.
It wasn’t just a tribute. It was a passing of the torch.
On that New York stage, Tobias Forge didn’t just mourn Ozzy Osbourne—he honored him in the loudest, most sacred way possible: with reverence, riffs, and a reminder that the Prince of Darkness may be gone, but his
fire still burns.
