Does it truly matter who's going to be President? Not when the latest word from Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath is, "We have six new songs recorded with nine more to go."
Ozzy Osbourne and the English chums music critics hold responsible for masterminding Heavy Metal find themselves to be pretty distant from hanging up the strings and sticks.
You don't need a Radio Jock to expose their sessions of success. Anytime anyone brings up Black Sabbath and Paranoid - the next step is to whip out an Ipod and prepare the soul for a date with extremely loud, gut generated metal boiling in a pair of Dr Dre Beats ready tear up what little ears you have left.
The Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame writes: With their riff-based songs, extreme volume, and dark, demonic subject matter, Black Sabbath embodied key aspects of the heavy-metal aesthetic. Yet in their own words, Black Sabbath saw themselves as a “heavy underground” band. That term denoted both the intensity of their music and the network of fans who found them long before critics and the music industry took notice. In a sense, though they’ve sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, they still are a heavy underground band. Although they became eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, they weren’t inducted until 2006. The truth is, they remain one of the most misunderstood bands in rock history.
Back home in 2012 Sabbath sits pretty high on the confidence meter knowing nearly a dozen new songs an album are laid and find no need to rest. Guitarist Tony Iommi told Blairing Out in an interview. "We've written the 15 songs and we've played them all, but now at the moment we're recording them," Iommi said. He continued, "We're about six tracks in now at the moment."
Drummer Bill Ward isn't a part of the Black Sabbath revival, and Iommi doesn't foresee Ward rejoining the group anytime soon. "We'll always have a heart for Bill, but I think it's gone past that now, because it's gone on so long, that I don't see that happening at the moment," Iommi said.
The guitarist also mentioned producer Rick Rubin and his creative process. "He's just a vibe merchant, really. He vibes you up. He's not one who gets involved hands-on," said Iommi. "He leaves it to you to do it and he sort of says, 'Yeah, I like it,' you know, or, 'I don't like it.'"
As a cancer survivor, Iommi also shared some thoughts on the late Ronnie James Dio and his Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund. "It's great that there's somebody doing something about it and trying to get rid of this awful disease," said Iommi. "You can't praise it enough, things like this is what it needs to make people aware of what's going on."
The interview
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