{"id":351057,"date":"2026-01-04T03:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:42:08","slug":"geezer-butler-using-ai-voice-for-solo-album-but-tony-iommi-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351057\/","title":{"rendered":"Geezer Butler Using AI Voice for Solo Album, but Tony Iommi Isn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/geezer-butler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geezer Butler<\/a>\u00a0recently hailed the advantages of artificial intelligence, saying it helped him develop songs for his upcoming solo album.<\/p>\n<p>Butler was asked about his current activities following <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/black-sabbath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black Sabbath<\/a>&#8216;s Back to the Beginning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/black-sabbath-final-concert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">farewell show<\/a> in July 2025 at the recent Steel City Con in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, during a session hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/dee-snider\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dee Snider<\/a>. You can watch the video below.<\/p>\n<p>The bassist\u00a0said his former bandmate and Sabbath guitarist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/tony-iommi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Iommi<\/a> was collaborating with a human vocalist on <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tony-iommi-album-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his next solo album<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and he explained why he might not make a guest appearance on the record.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/geezer-butler-briefly-fired-by-black-sabbath\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geezer Butler Enjoyed Being Briefly Fired by Black Sabbath<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTony\u2019s got this great album that he\u2019s doing right at the moment,\u201d Butler said. \u201cI think he\u2019s in the process of mixing it right now, so it should be out sometime [soon].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got this great singer from Sweden on it. And he wanted me to do three bass tracks \u2013 but he wanted me to do them in England, and I can&#8217;t go to England until June. So if he can hang on that long, I might collaborate with him in June.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch Dee Snider Interview Geezer ButlerIs Geezer Butler Cheating by Using AI to Make His Solo Album?<\/p>\n<p>Turning to his own album plans, Butler said: \u201cI\u2019ve got tons of stuff. Since we finished the last Sabbath show I\u2019ve been going through all the stuff I\u2019ve written since the \u201880s onwards and updating everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cAnd what held me back before [was] I didn\u2019t have a singer when I\u2019m at home. But AI came along! \u2026 I\u2019m using an AI singer to bring all the lyrics out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AI skeptics, fear not: Butler said he&#8217;s merely using the technology as a jumping-off point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Before I was just playing them a bass riff or something, going, \u2018Can you sing to this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Butler asserted: \u201cIt\u2019s so much better now \u2013 you can sit in your studio and do everything on AI and then take it to proper musicians and let them take over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt\u2019s really helped me. A lot of people think it\u2019s cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Black Sabbath Live Albums Ranked Worst to Best<\/p>\n<p>Together, they paint a portrait of a band that lived hard, worked hard and played hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/author\/bryanrolli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryan Rolli<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geezer Butler\u00a0recently hailed the advantages of artificial intelligence, saying it helped him develop songs for his upcoming solo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-351057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}