{"id":831664,"date":"2026-07-29T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831664\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:54:10","slug":"the-wait-is-over-tony-iommi-has-announced-his-first-solo-album-in-21-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831664\/","title":{"rendered":"The wait is over: Tony Iommi has announced his first solo album in 21 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

After speculation reached fever pitch earlier this week<\/a>, Black Sabbath<\/a> legend Tony Iommi<\/a> has officially announced his first solo album in 21 years, From the Dark. Arriving 23 October via BMG, the album will be the Godfather of Heavy Metal\u2019s first solo album since 2005\u2019s Fused.<\/p>\n

Tony Iommi\u2019s riffs are legendary and have literally given birth to and shaped an entire genre, but he couldn\u2019t do it alone, and so he\u2019s pieced together a backing band consisting of Norwegian vocalist J\u00f8rn Lande, Mercyful Fate bassist Becky Baldwin, and former Robbie Williams drummer Karl Brazil.<\/p>\n

Tony Iommi serves as co-producer of the record alongside Mike Exeter, who is credited on Black Sabbath\u2019s final album, 13, released in 2013.<\/p>\n

The announcement arrives alongside the launch of new single World Alone, which you can check out below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As you\u2019d expect from one of the founders of heavy metal, the track is rooted firmly in high-gain guitar riffs and a thunderous rhythm section. Iommi gets creative on the accompanying music video, which features a protagonist named The Believer thrust into a \u201ctwisted video game to save his life and ultimately find salvation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The rest of the album is said to be similarly heavy, with Black Times a \u201csucker-punch strike that takes no prisoners\u201d, and Beyond the Dead featuring a \u201cstately and sinister riff interwoven with epic orchestration\u201d.<\/p>\n

The track was premiered today at a special global streaming event hosted in Iommi and Black Sabbath\u2019s hometown of Birmingham, England, a \u201cstone\u2019s throw\u201d from the famous Black Sabbath Bridge.<\/p>\n

Scent of Dark and Deified \u2013 two other tracks released by the Sabbath guitarist in recent years \u2013 will later be released as part of a deluxe-edition CD.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an album we\u2019ve really enjoyed making. We\u2019re not trying to prove anything \u2013 it\u2019s a great album, it rocks!\u201d says Tony Iommi.<\/p>\n

Check out the full tracklist of From the Dark below:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over The Violent SunBlack TimesWorld AloneBeyond The DeadStormwatcherDeath WakeReturn Of The ArbalistLegacy<\/p>\n

The album\u2019s announcement lands just a few days after the first anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u2019s death. Last week, Iommi paid tribute to his fallen Black Sabbath bandmate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s now a year since Ozzy\u2019s passing and I still can\u2019t believe that he\u2019s not with us,\u201d the guitarist wrote. \u201cI watch him on YouTube and it feels like he\u2019s still here with us. We always stayed in touch, almost every week or so and we\u2019d usually talk about our ailments and then about what we\u2019d been doing that particular week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fans have been absolutely brilliant and the love and respect that they have shown for him has just been amazing. I\u2019m so glad that we were able to play one final show with the original line up of Sabbath at the Back To The Beginning show in our home town of Birmingham! There will never be another Ozzy. I miss you my dear friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the Dark is available to preorder<\/a> now.<\/p>\n

\"Sam<\/p>\n

Sam is the Associate News Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Thoroughly immersed in music culture for the majority of his life, Sam has played guitar for 20 years, studied music technology and production at university, and also written for the likes of Guitar World, Total Guitar, Metal Hammer and MusicRadar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After speculation reached fever pitch earlier this week, Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi has officially announced his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4624,64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-831664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-artist","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831664","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=831664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}