Black Sabbath is currently at work on a forthcoming reunion album, and now the band members may be honored in their hometown of Birmingham, England. According to the city's Destination Birmingham, city officials are considering naming one day next summer "Black Sabbath Day."
"Black Sabbath's reunion and their agreement to headline Download Festival in June is an opportunity we should not miss. Early discussions are taking place about how best the city should celebrate this and the council should be supporting any celebrations," Destination Birmingham's Philip Parkin wrote.
"The report is saying that Black Sabbath reforming is significant, Black Sabbath are huge and metal is huge. Given this, it is us saying to the council that we need to celebrate the fact these people come from Birmingham and there could be various ways we could do it."
"Ozzy Osbourne came from Aston and he's an international star," he added.
The band members recently moved work on their new album from California to the U.K. where guitarist Tony Iommi is receiving cancer treatment.
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