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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi is arguably the most important player in the history of heavy metal. His awesomely heavy riffs served as the basic blueprint for subsequent bands, and of course ...
Few guitar solos are quite as memorable as Iommi’s solo in “Iron Man”. The whole of this 1970 track is legendary, but Iommi really shines as an expert metal guitarist on “Iron Man”.
When it came to guitar solos, Iommi says Dio was an enabler. The story had always been that there were creative tensions by the time Live Evil was recorded and released, that Dio was exerting too much ...
Iommi’s world-altering riffs led to some of the all-star farewell show’s biggest singalongs – no wonder the supporting cast ...
Three years after releasing the instrumental, “Scent of Dark,” Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has released another solo song, also an instrumental titled “Deified.” The song begins ...
Tony Iommi recalled how much he hated the guitar solo on Black Sabbath’s breakthrough single “Paranoid,” and added that he spent time resenting the song. It was written at the last minute ...
READ MORE: The Song That Broke Up Axl Rose + Slash Tony Iommi, on the other hand, was part of one of metal's pioneering bands, Black Sabbath, where his unique style of guitar work can be heard on ...
Tony Iommi, 2023. Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images Three years after releasing the instrumental, “Scent of Dark,” Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has released another solo song, also ...
In 2021, Iommi told Rolling Stone he would love to make more instrumental music. "As you know, I've got loads of riffs," he said at the time. "It's just trying to now get around to doing them." ...