A soulful performance from a heavy metal legend took on a new meaning Tuesday following the death of Ozzy Osbourne. After the announcement that the Black Sabbath frontman and "Prince of Darkness" died at the age of 76,

Ozzy Osbourne’s sisters said the late Black Sabbath vocalist was still cracking jokes in the weeks before his death. Jean Powell and Gillian Hemming spoke to The Mirror about their younger brother, who died on Tuesday,

An upcoming documentary about Ozzy Osbourne’s health setbacks and his desire to stage a farewell concert will still arrive later this year.

That show came several years after his final worldwide tour in 2018. Osbourne kicked off the North American leg of that tour, the “No More Tours 2” show, at Allentown’s PPL Center on Aug. 30, 2018. The PPL Center show marked his first performance in the Lehigh Valley in more than 25 years.

With tears in his makeup-shadowed eyes, Osbourne, the ailing and retiring frontman for Black Sabbath, raged against the twilight of the metal gods.

Osbourne presided over a bill that gave equal representation to almost every strain of metal that Black Sabbath begat, its diversity illustrating how the band didn’t just make a scene: They forged a subculture.