Zakk Wylde Plays Black Sabbath on Hello Kitty Mini-Guitar 

Legend has it, that if Zakk Wylde trims his thumbnail, it will become the pick of legends, highly sought after for the skill it imbues into its wielder.

This is like one of those weird dreams you never share with anybody: a giant bearded viking with a giant nail singing a rock song on a Hello Kitty guitar. And on top of that a bunch of goth Hello kitties flying around

Loudwire: "Just play a little song on a Hello Kitty guitar, nothing special" Zakk Wylde proceeds to play the best cover ever. Black Sabbaths version of N.I.B. is now declared a cover of this performance.

As a Sabbath fan for the last 50 years, I'm not afraid to admit this brought tears to my eyes..that was fuckin beautiful

When his daughter says, "Will you play me a bedtime lullaby, Daddy?"

That hello kitty guitar just lived its dream.

I was here to laugh at first but I think I just found the best acoustic cover of NIB?

I never pegged the tune as blues, but man, just an acoustic playing and a sorrowful voice makes it SCREAM blues!

this guys pretty good, I hope his parents get him a real guitar

this video is the very definition of - "it's not the guitar, it is the man who plays it'

The guitar is actually normal sized, and he is just huge

And this is a very real reminder why dude is one of the absolute best.

6 years later and it's still badass!

"Welcome to The Salty Spittoon. How tough are ya?" How tough am I!? I played a Black Sabbath song! "Yeah, so?" On a Hello Kitty guitar. "Right this way, sorry to keep you waiting..."

Unironically the best cover of this song on RU-vid.

"Dad sing me to sleep" -.....

How sad is it that this cover sounds amazing

This might be my favorite performance of this song.

I guess you could say he *nailed* it.

Zakk with a toy Hello Kitty guitar putting on better sets than anything you’ll hear on the radio in 2024! THAT’S a musician ladies and gentlemen.

I love the passion he puts in his playing.

I actually really like his voice

This is perfect representation of "Dont blame your tools blame your skills"

Every time RU-vid brings me back around to this video, I'm reminded it's never the instrument but the artist. In the hands of someone like Zakk Wylde, he manages to make a Hello Kitty guitar sound absolutely ethereal.

Expected to see a joke of a video, got the best NIB cover instead. My day is good again

The internet was invented for stuff like this.

Soooo... Lemme get this straight: A viking play on a hello kitty guitar unplugged, AND sings N.I.B from black sabbath... I didn't came prepared nor drank enough for this...

NIB is an amazing song, sung and played by zakk Wylde himself. On a freaking child's guitar. Perfection.

This kinda reminds me of when my kid was playing minor hockey. All of the other kids on the team had $200 sticks. I am a single dad and hockey is extremely expensive so I could really only afford cheaper $22 wood sticks. He always led his teams in goals and assists and went on to play college hockey and even had a brief shot with the pros. Moral of story after watching Zack bang out NIB on a $10 guitar. If you are talented...you are talented and having a $8k guitar won't matter if you have $5 hands.

Zakk and Mike Portnoy should make a Hello Kitty Band

Hard to believe I first seen this guy debut with Ozzy back in ..I think it was 87/88…something like that..he looked like a badass back then too..

I regularly come back to this vid

That moment when Zakk Wylde is better on the hello kitty first act guitar than you are on your Gibson les paul :(

unironically the best version of this song

Anyone who can make a small pink children's guitar sound badass is a musical legend. They don't have to write amazing music or be a storied composer. Just need to make it sound badass

Zakk Wylde rocks so hard! He can even rock the house with a shitty hello kitty guitar

I'll never look at hello kitty the same way over again. We love ya Ask. Rock on brother BLS FOREVER

I actually LOVED this cover of NIB.

Saw this a few years ago. Popped in my head to watch again tonight. Amazed that the 'Hello Kitty' stayed in tune for the entire song. May be a quality instrument

*sits down to rehearse* "damn, I lost my fingernail. I can't ever keep track of those damn things"

Wow, NIB sounds really nice in acoustic.

Literally one of the best covers I've heard of this song

I expected this to be funny, it was just plain beautiful

The ozzy hello kitties killed me.

This version is so good I took it up as a tutorial and learned to play NIB from this

I met Zakk at DIO’s funeral. I couldn’t not walk up to him. Couldn’t have been nicer. Just a very very good person 👍🏼🙏🏻

You may be metal But you can never be as metal as zakk wylde playing black sabbath on a hello kitty guitar

Zakk wyld + ged lee + master shake

Pure blues and its making me cry😢

This is hilarious but at the same time demonstrated that it is not just the quality of the instrument what matters the most it is also the player abilities to play and adapt to it.

Do a colab with Mike Portnoy on the Hello Kitty drums please!!

Nice to see that Jerry's guitar playing uncle is getting recognition.

I want to die by being stabbed to death by Zack Wyldes thumbnail.

Pretty sure that fingernail would not pass through airport security

The audience was so much in awe they almost forgot to applaud

This video has a great thumbnail

Beautiful rendition! Love the Kittys too

Really Loudwire? A Hello Kitty guitar? Everyone knows the pro’s use Pokémon guitars with blue stars.

Man this sounds soooooo much better than the Hello Kitty drum kit lmao

that hollow off-tune guitar sound, the whispered vocals, this is such a soulful cover lol

Imagine instead of Zakk simply saying “thank you”, he screamed it at the top of his lungs 😂

Legend has it Zakk once gutter a bear with that thumb nail

You can really hear the blues influence on this because of the acoustic guitar

I just swapped my Martin for a Hello Kitty after watching this.

Real talent can make any guitar sound good.

It sounds flawless. Wylde can make a rock sound like chants for the gods

wow. I can see it now. a whole new line of hello kitty. metal master series. just what every 6 year old needs in their Christmas stocking. a custom Zack wylde signature series hello kitty metal master series guitar with custom black sabbath artwork. oh yeah, dude, where are my royalties?

I would hands down buy this if it was on iTunes or bandcamp

I think he is mistaken. That is a 1958 Hello Kitty

this is officially one of the best videos ever

It's not your axe it's the passion you bring! Epic!

The finest example of "It's the musician, not the gear"

he is pretty good at playing guitar. if he keeps practising maybe some day he can be in a famous band

Well, this is my like 97th time watching this video,and it never gets old

Those Ozzy kitties are fucking amazing 😂😂

That sheer concentration he has when tuning the kitty guitar o' doom

what did we do to deserve this man

Oh, yeah Some people say my love cannot be true Please believe me, my love, and I'll show you I will give you those things you thought unreal The sun, the moon, the stars, all bear my seal Oh, yeah Follow me now and you will not regret Leaving the life you led before we met You are the first to have this love of mine Forever with me till the end of time Your love for me has just got to be real Before you know the way I'm going to feel I'm going to feel I'm going to feel Oh, yeah Now, I have you with me under my power Our love grows stronger now with every hour Look into my eyes, you'll see who I am My name is Lucifer, please take my hand Oh, yeah Follow me now and you will not regret Leaving the life you led before we met You are the first to have this love of mine Forever with me till the end of time Your love for me has just got to be real Before you know the way I'm going to feel I'm going to feel I'm going to feel Oh, yeah Now I have you with me under my power Our love grows stronger now with every hour Look into my eyes, you'll see who I am My name is Lucifer, please take my hand

Ok,,,,, I have an Idea for a new RU-vid channel that SOMEBODY NEEDS to make happen. This very guitar, needs to be sent around to various artists, where they video themselves playing one song that was inspirational to them, before being passed on to someone else. Maybe there could even be an episode where some musicians do like a round table, where they just have an off the cuff conversation about music that inspired them to first start playing, and each one of them has a go at the Hello Kitty. And when the series is over, (because unlike American TV where shows run WAY TO LONG! this series will have a satisfying conclusion), the guitar should be placed on display at the Rock Guitar Museum for the world to see and appreciate. This is one of those things that just NEEDS to be done. Let's make something beautiful again.

Loudwire should sponsor a Hello Kitty Band - Zakk Wylde and Bumblefoot on guitars, Mike Portnoy on drums, and Amy Lee on keyboard. :-D

I really didn't expect after a few minutes of this to be wishing this was a full set 😂😂😂

How many of you in some point forgot he was playing on a hello kitty guitar?

I love how the kitties kept popping up on the screen, holding their little candles 😎🔥

He's so badass

“kawaii metal”

Its not about the guitar. Its about a man behind the guitar that makes it different.

He does this better on a joke guitar then I can on a legit one

Simply a thoroughbred musician 👍👍👍

I've started sort of collecting musical instruments some costly, I'm 60, and this person of some fame and capability in the higher musical circles actually got s pretty good sound from it ,somewhere between a ukele and junior guitar, cool I want one, one day all serious collectors/musician will have kitty in their stash

He was feeling that lil acoustic for a minute there

This guy should start a band and play guitar and sing in it. He has talent!

zakk should be the next chuck norris meme, for instance, zakk wylde went to the virgin islands, now it's just the islands.

you know what this legendary video needs? yes! unevenly placed low quality hello kitty gifs every 5 seconds!

When your a metal head but your little sister have a guitar

❤This moment in time, PRICELESS! ❤🤘😁

For some reason this is the best version of this song and the views prove it.

I find his lack of pinch harmonics disturbing.

This is tremendous God how I love unconventional musicians. Avant guard shit like the beat poets and Beefheart.Stuff like this is art at its best.Does Hello Kitty come in drums and a base or what other instruments

The level of badassery it takes to pull this off is beyond any measurement known to exist..

He literally NAIL-ED it