{"id":387497,"date":"2026-01-02T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387497\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:01:07","slug":"black-sabbaths-geezer-butler-using-ai-singer-to-present-solo-songs-to-vocalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387497\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler Using AI Singer to Present Solo Songs to Vocalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Sabbath<\/a> bassist Geezer Butler<\/a> has embraced AI technology when creating new songs for his upcoming solo album. The metal legend has utilized the help of an AI singer to present tracks to real-life vocalists who will contribute to the forthcoming LP.<\/p>\n

Butler \u2014 who released three solo albums under the monikers g\/\/z\/r, geezer, and GZR from 1995 through 2005 \u2014 was asked if he was working on new solo material during a Q&A session at the recent Steel City Con in Monroeville, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, gosh, I\u2019ve got tons of stuff,\u201d he responded (as transcribed by Blabbermouth<\/a>).\u201dSince we finished the last Sabbath show [at \u2018Back to the Beginning\u2019 in July], I\u2019ve just been going through all the stuff that I\u2019ve written since the \u201980s onwards and updating everything. And what held me back before, I didn\u2019t have a singer when I\u2019m at home, but AI came along. [laughs] So all my songs now, I\u2019ve updated them all and I\u2019m using an AI singer to bring all the lyrics out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He continued, \u201cSo, now I can take it to singers that I\u2019m gonna be working with and go, \u2018This is what I want on the album,\u2019 so they\u2019ve got a better idea. Before I was just, like, playing them a bass riff or something, going, \u2018Can you sing to this?\u2019 And they\u2019d be going, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 [Laughs] But it\u2019s so much better now, \u2019cause you can sit in your studio and do everything on AI, and then take it to proper musicians and let them take over. It\u2019s really helped me. A lot of people think it\u2019s cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n

When further asked about his songwriting process, Butler focused on Black Sabbath, answering, \u201cWith Sabbath,\u00a0we\u2019d sit down in a room together and just jam and jam and jam until somebody came up with something that we could work with. Once we had a good riff to write to, we\u2019d finish the music part of it. Ozzy [Osbourne] would sing his vocal line, then I\u2019d write the lyrics. So, it mainly came from jamming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Butler, who ranks No. 21 on Consequence\u2018s list of the 100 Greatest Bassists of All Time<\/a>, released his first solo album, Plastic Planet, in 1995 with Fear Factory\u2019s Burton C. Bell on vocals. His second two albums \u2014 1997\u2019s Black Science and 2005\u2019s Ohmwork \u2014 featured Clark Brown on vocals.<\/p>\n

See Geezer Butler\u2019s Q&A session at Steel City Con below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has embraced AI technology when creating new songs for his upcoming solo album.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-387497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}