{"id":893979,"date":"2026-09-13T08:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893979\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:12:16","slug":"tony-iommi-turned-down-the-opportunity-to-make-a-final-black-sabbath-album-with-the-original-lineup-he-was-very-keen-and-a-bit-too-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893979\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Iommi turned down the opportunity to make a final Black Sabbath album with the original lineup. “He was very keen and a bit too excited”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Iommi has revealed that he turned down the opportunity to record a final Black Sabbath<\/a> album with the band’s original lineup.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview in the new issue of Classic Rock<\/a>, Iommi reveals that Andrew Watt, who produced Ozzy Osbourne’s final two albums, 2020’s Ordinary Man<\/a> and 2022’s Patient Number 9<\/a>, had approached him in the early 2020s about making a Sabbath album with the original lineup.<\/p>\n

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Read our exclusive interview with Tony Iommi in\u00a0the new issue of Classic Rock<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d met Andrew Watt when he was producing Ozzy,\u201d says Iommi. \u201cHe was very keen and a bit too excited. He also didn\u2019t know what it was like working with the original Sabbath, working with Bill [drummer Bill Ward]. Also, we\u2019d done 13<\/a>, and I didn\u2019t like the idea of: \u2018Now here\u2019s another album.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ward was initially slated to appear alongside Iommi, Ozzy and bassist Geezer Butler on 13, but the recording lineup was eventually completed by Rage Against the Machine<\/a> and Audioslave drummer Brad Wilk after Ward backed out of the sessions following a contractual dispute.<\/p>\n

In early 2014, Ozzy told Classic Rock<\/a> that 13 wouldn’t be the band’s final album.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe whole Sabbath experience this time around was great,\u201d he said. \u201cWe all made friends, we didn\u2019t fuck around, we all knew that we had a job to do, and we did it. It was a lot of fun. So we\u2019re going to do one more album, and a final tour.”<\/p>\n

While Sabbath completed their year-long The End tour in early 2017, the only new release from the band was an accompanying EP, which included four previously unreleased tracks from the 13 sessions and four live tracks from their 2012\u20132014 reunion tour.<\/p>\n

The new issue of Classic Rock is on sale now<\/a>. Iommi\u2019s forthcoming album, From The Dark<\/a>, is due for release on October 23 via BMG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Iommi has revealed that he turned down the opportunity to record a final Black Sabbath album with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-893979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}