Ozzy's "Black Rain" goes green

Ozzy Osbourne's latest album, Black Rain, is actually green. The album, which came out on May 22nd, was released in "eco-friendly" packaging, with the CD sleeve made out of recycled paper. In addition, the record came out without a booklet to further save paper, with the lyrics, credits and other inside material available to buyers of the CD at sonymusic.com.

Black Rain features several songs based on current events and the state of the world in general. But Ozzy told us that he hasn't turned into an "issues-oriented" artist: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "Believe me, I've not suddenly woken up and I'm sane. But I'm not one of these guys that can write about boy-meets-girl and, I mean, it's got to mean something to me. I don't write all the lyrics, but I have to say, 'Well, you know, isn't that strange that that happened when this happened,' you know, and I'll get going, you know."

Black Rain debuted at Number Three on the Billboard album chart last week, with first-week sales of 152,000 copies.

Specially marked copies of Black Rain come with a code which fans can use to download tickets to this summer's free Ozzfest, which begins on July 12th in Seattle with Osbourne headlining.
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