YouTube several days ago.
SABBATH s longtime keyboardist
Geoff Nicholls, shared the track last Friday (March 5), writing in an accompanying message that he had found it on a cassette tape that contained other material recorded during
SABBATH s 1979 songwriting sessions for the following year s album Heaven And Hell .
SiriusXM s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk on Thursday (March 11) what he could remember anything about this purportedly unreleased tune,
Iommi said: I m not at all happy with [
Nicholls s estate releasing the song] at all. And it s left a really bad taste in my mouth. At that point, when we did that,
Geoff wasn t even involved in the band; I hadn t even got
Geezer Butler has confirmed that he is featured on a previously unreleased Ronnie James Dio-era BLACK SABBATH song titled "Slapback" which was uploaded to YouTube. The track was shared by Gary Rees, the stepson and executor
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Tony Iommi offered some insight into the circumstances in which he crafted some of heavy metal s foundational moments.
Iommi s writing made Sabbath s co-founding lineup iconic and inspired generations of musicians to chase the almighty riff in their own music.
When asked in a recent conversation with Songfacts what song he considers to be the defining track from Black Sabbath s original lineup, Iommi named 1970 s Iron Man.
While Paranoid was the title track from the album and record s first single to break through, Iommi says Iron Man is more illustrative of what he and the band were about in that era.
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