Metallica’s Robert Trujillo says Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral was “beautiful”

Posted On August 11, 2025August 11, 2025

Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo has opened up on what it was like to attend the funeral of Ozzy Osbourne, saying the service was “very, very beautiful.”

Trujillo, who has played with Metallica since 2003 but prior to this performed with Osbourne’s solo band in the late 1990s, paid his respects in the private service held at the singer’s family home in Buckinghamshire on July 31st.

He was joined by a range of rock icons who worked with the Prince of Darkness throughout his career, including all his Black Sabbath bandmates, the drummer Zakk Wylde, and Slipknot’s Corey Taylor.

During a recent interview on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Trujillo said: “It was a small group of people, but it was very, very beautiful,” before adding, “It was very sad, but at the same time some of the speeches were – as you could imagine – pretty funny. And there were a lot of tears… Geezer [Butler] broke down into tears. He had a hard time, obviously, speaking, and then he came back up and he delivered an amazing eulogy.”

The bassist also spoke of special moments within the service which epitomised Osbourne’s sense of humour and the character he lived by. “It had been raining at the beginning of the service,” he explained, “and then as it sort of progressed through the service, the weather would change and different things would happen. When Kelly [Osbourne] was singing, her lyrics flew — the wind blew her lyrics away. It was almost like Ozzy was having fun with her.”

He continued: “And then when Geezer spoke, actually spoke, the sun came out. I’m not kidding. The sun actually came out, and then it was beautiful from that moment on – a very magical moment.”

The public aspect of Osbourne’s funeral, which took place the day before in his native Birmingham, saw thousands of fans come out to line the streets in honour of the heavy metal icon.

Due to the thousands of gifts and flowers left at sites such as the Black Sabbath bridge in the city, the Birmingham Business Improvement District (BID) announced that they are now in the process of preserving and archiving these tributes for Osbourne’s family to keep.

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