The metal luminary, 76, took the stage with his original bandmates at a farewell festival in his Birmingham, England, hometown on Saturday night.

Jake E. Lee, Ronnie Wood and Nuno Bettencourt were among the six-string royalty joining the likes of Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Gojira for the nine-hour celebrat

Iommi also explained that the band only agreed to reunite for the Back to the Beginning concert because it would be a charity show. "It’s absolutely the end,” he said of Black Sabbath, which he formed in 1968 with Osbourne, Butler, and Ward. “There’s no way we could go out and do a tour.”