Tony Iommi will launch a brand new solo album this yr.
Tony Iommi plans to launch a brand new solo album this yr
The Black Sabbath guitarist confirmed that he’ll “positively” be releasing his first standalone document since 2005’s Fused throughout the subsequent 12 months as he issued a New Yr’s message to his followers.
Talking in a video uploaded to his YouTube channel, Tony stated: “I shall have positively, positively my solo album out. And I am actually wanting ahead to that. I am having fun with doing that, and it has been nice enjoyable, and I actually hope you take pleasure in it.”
In the meantime, the 77-year-old rocker additionally mirrored on 2025, which noticed Black Sabbath play their epic Again To The Starting farewell present at Villa Park in Birmingham in July – simply weeks earlier than frontman Ozzy Osbourne died on the age of 76.
Iommi recalled: “We had been introduced with the Freedom Of The Metropolis from Birmingham, which was completely wonderful. I imply, I by no means thought we might ever get that, which is a superb honour.
“They’d lots of work round of Sabbath on the partitions, and it was actually good. And all Birmingham grew to become kind of a Sabbath metropolis.”
He continued: “It was actually nice seeing Ozzy, Invoice (Ward) and Geezer (Butler) for the Freedom Of The Metropolis. And at that time, after all, we had been into rehearsals for the Again To The Starting present on the Villa grounds in Birmingham.
“And the quantity of bands that turned as much as assist Sabbath on that was simply improbable. What an incredible occasion. And, after all, it raised some huge cash for charity.
“It is simply unlucky and unhappy that Ozzy handed away a few weeks after that, might he relaxation in peace.”
Tony beforehand revealed that he believed that Ozzy “held out” to play one final present with Black Sabbath.
The guitarist advised ITV Information within the aftermath of the music icon’s loss of life: “I feel he actually simply held out to try this present. I actually really feel – and me and Geezer had been speaking about it final evening – that we predict he held out to do it, and simply after that, he is executed it and stated goodbye to the followers. And that was the top of it, actually.
“I feel he will need to have had one thing in his head that stated, ‘Properly, that is gonna be it, the very last thing I am ever gonna do.’ Whether or not he thought he was gonna die or what, I do not know. However he actually wished to do it, and he was decided to do it. And truthful dues, he is executed it.”
