06/08/2026
I played this tour but not with Disturbed… 🤘🏻
The 2001 edition of Ozzfest wasn’t just a festival; it was a high‑water mark for nu‑metal, featuring a main stage that looked like a “Best of the Era” playlist:
MAIN STAGE 🔥
· 🤘 Black Sabbath (the original gods, headlining)
· 🎩 Marilyn Manson
· 😤 Slipknot
· 🧢 Papa Roach
· 🎤 Linkin Park
· 🎸 Disturbed
· 🍕 Crazy Town
· 🎸 Black Label Society
SECOND STAGE (The Real Ones Know) 🎧
· Disturbed (again, pulling double duty!)
· Mudvayne
· Cold
· Taproot
· Hatebreed
· Drowning Pool
· Nonpoint
· American Head Charge
· Otep
· and many more… 💀
DID YOU KNOW? 🤯
· The tour was famously booked with help from Ozzy’s son, Jack Osbourne, who was a teenager at the time and “knew what the f**k was going on.” 🗣️
· This was a 12‑hour marathon of heavy music, drawing over 50,000 fans at some stops. ⏳
· A rare documentary from this tour, We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll (directed by Wayne’s World's Penelope Spheeris), captured all the backstage chaos. 🎬
If you could build your dream Ozzfest lineup today, which ONE band from the 2001 bill would you absolutely have to include?