In an interview with Billboard the singer explained, "I’m gonna get with [guitarist] Zakk [Wylde] soon and start hopefully writing a new studio [album]. I’ve gotta get a studio album this year."
The last time the two men worked together, it was on the disc Down to Earth in 2001. Osbourne is also working on his musical, entitled Rasputin, that he started ten years ago. The project tells the story of an immortal Russian monk. When asked when the musical would be finished, Osbourne replied, "I don’t know, because I’ve never done it before. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do. It’s gonna be drama, I suppose. Some f*cking guy says, ‘Oh yeah man, I can see it now: These silver things come out of the sky …’ I don’t want ‘Star Trek’ meets f*cking Russia. I want it kind of like authentic, like ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ meets f*cking ‘Phantom.’"