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5 Memorable Ski Films That Featured Ozzy Osbourne's Music

Originally posted on Powder | By Izzy Lidsky | Last updated Jul 23, 2025 4:22 PM ET

The world lost one of the most iconic and talented heavy metal musicians earlier this week when Ozzy Osbourne passed away at the age of 76.

Osbourne was known for being the lead vocalist of early metal band Black Sabbath from its inception in 1970 until 1979 when he left the band and pursued a wildly successful solo career. Black Sabbath was known as pioneers of the heavy metal genre as was Ozzy in his solo career.

It's no secret that heavy metal and skiing go together as well as peanut butter and jelly so naturally, Sabbath and Osbourne's songs have been used in several ski film segments. Here's a few of the best ski segments that feature the Prince of Darkness' music.

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1. I Just Want You- TWENTY (2014), Poor Boyz Productions

Poor Boyz Productions features Ozzy Osbourne's 'I Just Want You' off his 1995 album Ozzmosis in their 2014 flick, TWENTY. The song is featured in the film's first full athlete segment as a backer to five minutes of Pep Fujas shredding pillows, spines, urban features, and a whole lot of deep pow. It's a banger opening segment and checks a lot of boxes for your classic ski film seg between the Ozzy song and Fujas' skiing.

2. The Wizard (Black Sabbath) - Grand Bizzare (2011), Poor Boyz Productions

The 2011 Poor Boyz flick also has a little Ozzy in it. Riley Leboe's hard hitting and vaguely chaotic segment is set to the 'The Wizard,' a tune off Black Sabbath's first album that was released in 1970. The same year, Sabbath released Paranoid, which had many of the band's most famous tracks like Iron Man, War Pigs, Planet Caravan, and the album's title track. While Sabbath is known as one of the original metal bands, an almost country harmonica twang on 'The Wizard' layered with plenty of guitar distortion is the perfect compliment to a 2011 Riley Leboe segment.

3. Children of the Grave (Black Sabbath) - Eye Trip (2010), Level 1

The closing segment of Level 1's 2010 film, Eye Trip shows a pre-mullet Parker White, Chris Logan, JF Houle, and Tom Wallisch hitting an absolutely massive jump in Sun Valley. Sabbath's Children of the Grave is pretty much the most perfect track that could go in this insane park segment. Wallisch says the rodeo 5 he threw is probably the biggest he'd ever gone on skis, not to mention Parker White's unreal front flip. Tricking a jump that big is pretty metal so throwing in metal for the soundtrack is a no brainer.

4. Over the Mountains - Claim (2008), Matchstick Productions

There are few things I love more in the world than early Sean Petit segments in Matchstick Films, and possibly the only thing that would make me love it more is a banger soundtrack. It's hard to top his Attack of La Nina segment with the Electric Light Orchestra song, but this one comes in close. Petit's Claim segment closes the film with a pithy bit of him as a student before a few minutes of peak Petit shredding. Throwing in a track from one of Ozzy's best solo albums truly enhances the bit, as any film music should.

5. No More Tears - YUP (2023), Sammy Carlson

Sammy C's solo projects have notoriously sick soundtracks so it's not altogether surprising he used one of Ozzy's best songs, and an A$AP Ferg song in the same edit. The 1991 Ozzy banger makes Carlson as well as Vinzenz Keller and Todd Ligare's skiing just that much more cinematic with its heavy bass line, epic guitar riffs and amazing solo in the middle. The song is also almost 7 and a half minutes which makes it pretty primo ski edit length. While it's hard to go wrong throwing an Ozzy or Sabbath song in a ski film, this might be one of the best uses we've seen.

This article first appeared on Powder and was syndicated with permission.

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