Top ticket prices for Black Sabbath’s final ever gig were an eye-watering £834, but that did not stop them selling out within 16 minutes.

The legendary rock band – who have a combined age of 303 – will reunite for one final concert in their hometown of Birmingham in July as part of an all day heavy metal concert at Villa Park.

Fans were keen to get their hands on the tickets which went on sale today, but many reported problems with long queues and high prices.

Ticketmaster said tickets were priced in advance and ranged from £197.50 to £834.

The fundraising concert, which will take place on July 5 in the city where the band was formed in 1968, will mark the first time that Black Sabbath’s original line-up – Ozzy Osbourne, 76, Tony Iommi, 76, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – have played together in 20 years.

Fans took to social media to share their anger over the whopping price tag.

Top ticket prices for Black Sabbath’s final ever gig were an eye-watering £834, but that did not stop them selling out within 16 minutes

The legendary rock band – who have a combined age of 303 – will reunite for one final concert in their hometown of Birmingham in July as part of an all day heavy metal concert at Villa Park ( pictured in the 70s – L-R: (back) Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, (front) Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne – posed, group sH๏τ)

One said: ‘Man, I knew black sabbath tickets were gonna be expensive but over 800 pounds for tickets is actually a crime wtf.’

‘I know it’s for charity but come on now,’ one fan wrote, sharing a screensH๏τ of a seated ticket priced at £487.50.

Another said: ‘Black Sabbath charging £420 for nosebleeds that aren’t VIP is actually f***ing insane.’

One fan claimed to have been asked for £2,932.50 for one ticket in the Gold Circle with an ‘Ultimate Side of Stage Experience’.

He wrote: ‘I’d expect to be rocking out on stage with Black Sabbath for the price of these tickets.’

The all-day event will also include performances from legendary metal acts including Metallica, Slayer, Gojira, Alice in Chains and and Lamb of God, as well as a ‘supergroup’ performance comprising members of Limp Bizkit, Van Halen, The Smashing Pumpkins and Faith No More.

All profits from the event will be shared equally between three different charities: Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, and Acorn Children’s Hospice.

Concert ticket prices have become controversial issues in recent months, with the Compeтιтion and Markets Authority (CMA) launchING an investigation into Ticketmaster over its handling of the Oasis reunion ticket sale, which saw fans hit by alleged ‘dynamic pricing’.

All profits from the event will be shared equally between three different charities: Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, and Acorn Children’s Hospice (pictured  Osbourne)

The group pioneered heavy metal music in the early 1970s with hits such as War Pigs, Paranoid and Iron Man

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Last week, the company denied that it employed the practice as its representatives were questioned by MPs, insisting that the prices were set in advance by the event organiser and did not change during the buying process.

Announcing the concert last month, Sabbath frontman Osbourne, who has been plagued with health issues after he was diagnosed with Parkinsons in 2019, said: ‘It’s my time to go back to the beginning… time for me to give back to the place where I was born.’

‘How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham forever.’

Black Sabbath held their first rehearsal at Newtown Community Centre, a stone’s throw from Villa Park.

They previously played a farewell show to a sold out audience of 16,000 people at the city’s NEC Arena in 2017.

Black Sabbath held their first rehearsal at Newtown Community Centre, a stone’s throw from Villa Park (pictured in 2017)

He previously celebrated his home city in 2022 when he helped close the Commonwealth Games.

He rose to further fame alongside his wife – who he married in 1982 and with whom he has three children, Aimee, Jack and Kelly – through their reality TV series The Osbournes.

The ailing rocker has remained positive despite his poor health.

He has said: ‘I have made it to 2025. I can’t walk, but you know what I was thinking over the holidays for all my complaining, I’m still alive.’

‘I may be moaning that I can’t walk but I look down the road and there’s people that didn’t do half as much as me and didn’t make it.’

‘When you get up in the morning, I have to balance myself, but I’m not ᴅᴇᴀᴅ.’