Ozzy Osbourne latest album was to be worked on before death

Ozzy Osbourne was planning to start working on a new album shortly before his shock death in July.

The Black Sabbath front man passed away over the summer - just weeks after he got the legendary group back together for a massive reunion gig in his hometown of Birmingham, UK.

It has now been revealed that he was hoping to follow up his final concert with a new record and he'd already asked his longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde to join him in the studio.

Wylde told NJ.com: "He was texting me: 'Zakk, let’s do another record. Because I really loved it when you were going through your Allman Brothers, Skynyrd phase when we did No More Tears, it’s heavy but it’s more melodic, it’s not pummeling heavy.'’

"So, I said: 'Alright Oz, whatever you want,’’’ he added.

The album never got off the ground but Osbourne did finish work on his autobiography Last Rites and a BBC documentary.

"We did the show, he ended up finishing his book, they did the documentary, and then he was like: 'All right, I’m out of here'. He finished everything he had to do and then he was like: 'All right, I’m done,'" Zakk Wylde concluded.