13 is the nineteenth and final studio album by English
heavy metal band
Black Sabbath. The album was released on 10 June 2013 in Europe and 11 June 2013 in North America, via
Vertigo Records and
Republic Records in the US, and via Vertigo Records worldwide. It is the first studio album released by Black Sabbath since
Forbidden (1995), and their first studio recording with original singer
Ozzy Osbourne and bassist
Geezer Butler since the live album
Reunion (1998), which contained two new studio tracks. It is also the first studio album with Osbourne since
Never Say Die! (1978), and with Butler since
Cross Purposes (1994), the first since
Never Say Die! not to feature longtime keyboardist
Geoff Nicholls, and the first since
The Eternal Idol (1987) on the Vertigo label (outside the US and Canada).