These past few months have seen Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi allude to his plans to record and release new music.
The 72-year-old has kept quiet on the music front since wrapping up with Black Sabbath in February 2017, though maintains that the creative juices are still flowing.
“I want to start putting some stuff down,” he told Guitar World. “I was putting ideas down last year, but I haven’t done anything with them as yet.”
Iommi continued, “I’ve been working on and off with Mike Exeter, who has been my engineer for years now, remixing [Black Sabbath’s 1995 record] Forbidden.
“The old Tony Martin/Cozy Powell/Neil Murray record, and we’ve really taken our time with that. But I said to Mike, ‘Once we’ve got this out of the way, we need to start putting these riffs down.’ So it’s in the pipeline.”
When asked how he envisions this new music to be released, Iommi revealed that he’s interesting in dabbling in the soundtracking world.
“I might do some stuff for films or for a TV series or something. I’d like to just get everything down and then decide if I’m going to have a singer or what else,” he explained. But I’ve got hundreds of riffs.”
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The guitarist revealed that he plans on working on material with Queen guitarist Brian May.
“Brian May came over a few months ago and we sat outside and I was playing him some of them. And he said, ‘You’ve got to do something with these — we’ve got to do something with these.'”
“Because we’ve talked about putting some stuff down. So I gave him three or four CDs full of riffs and he took off with them. And you know, he’s busy with Queen stuff all the time. But when the time is right, I suppose we will do something.”
A musical collaboration between Iommi and May has been in the pipeline for years. “Every time we get together, we go, ‘We must do that,'” he said. “But it’s about getting the time to do it. So it’s just a matter of making a plan.”
Earlier this month, in an interview with Eddie Trunk for SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation, Iommi revealed that “not opposed” to future gigs with Black Sabbath. “I think that it would be good if we could do that,” the guitarist stated.
Sabbath’s 2017 tour ‘The End’ was billed as their final ever. Iommi was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, and his remission journey made it difficult to travel for extended amounts of time.
