Tony Iommi News

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has said he is making a good recovery after receiving stem-cell treatment on an injured hand.

Which rock star, born in 1945 and with six UK No 1 hits to his name, once worked as a gravedigger in Highgate Cemetery?

So much stoner and doom rock tends to be an exercise in heaviness alone. While that certainly has its place, few people can take the steady bludgeoning that it offers even as it fills that need in all who really love heavy metal for the mind-numbing weight of slow, trudging riffs that take Tony Iommi to the extreme.

Guitarist Tony Iommi has offered an optimistic update on his recovery after undergoing stem-cell treatment on his hand.

Halloween's over but the scary men of rock were out in force at the Marshall Classic Rock 'n' Roll Of Honour Awards.

Caption: Black Sabbath performing live in concert at the Sydney Entertainment Centre Sydney, Australia .... BLACK SABBATH guitarist TONY IOMMI is recovering after undergoing stem-cell treatment on his injured right hand.

According to Classic Rock magazine, the heavy hitters and major players of the rock music industry all gathered together tonight at the Park Lane Hotel in London to celebrate the winners of the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour Awards 2009 .

The 61-year-old is credited with helping to invent heavy metal music , but 40 years of playing have taken their toll on his hand.

What would the world be like if Ozzy had never put that "vocalist seeks band" flyer in the record store, which caused soon to be guitar-god Tony Iommi to call him up? Ozzy joined Earth , which later became Black Sabbath, and the rest is Heavy Metal history.

Simply stated, Dave Grohl is "the Man" in terms of rock. Born in 1969, Grohl has been kicking out the jams in a variety of bands since the mid-'80s. As a multi-instrumentalist, Grohl's skills have been featured in a number of bands/albums, including Nirvana, Foo Fighters, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Killing Joke, Pete Yorn and Tony Iommi to name ...

Legendary heavy metal guitarist Tony Iommi will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson 's guest on Friday, October 23 during Bruce 's weekly BBC 6 Music radio program, dubbed "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show" . Listen to the broadcast live via the Internet between 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. U.K. time at BBC.co.uk . The management for HEAVEN & ...

An exploration of the dorian mode, a minor sounding scale that can be used to spice up your guitar solos.

In a feat of rare alchemy - one often repeated throughout the band's career - Black Sabbath turned four measures and a mere six notes into one of the most recognizable phrases in rock music: the main riff of "Iron Man," from 1971's Paranoid .

Vicky Bradley conducted an interview with the veteran British all-female hard rock band GIRLSCHOOL on August 8, 2009 at the Dean Owners of America U.K. faction party at the Albany Theatre in London, England.

Damian of the unofficial BLACK SABBATH web site Black-Sabbath.com conducted an interview with legendary heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio at the final date of HEAVEN & HELL 's North American tour on August 29 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Legal pressure forced Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio, and Vinny Appice to call their band Heaven & Hell instead of Black Sabbath, but in every way this sporadically operational lineup of the long-running Sabbath brand has become its own entity.

HEAVEN & HELL a ' the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi , Ronnie James Dio , Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice a ' took part in a signing session and meet-and-greet yesterday at Sam Ash in New York City beginning at 6:00 p.m. One person who attended the event tells BLABBERMOUTH.NET : "The meet-and-greet held at Sam Ash 48th street on ...

"Gee whiz, man. Ozzy sold more solo albums than Sabbath? Wow, I guess that automatically means Ozzy's solo music is better, hunh? That's YOUR math.

Behind the guitar-bashing, head-banging and thrashing mob of the heavy metal scene is a rich history, and actually a sensitive mindfulness of its promoters.

Summertime concert schedules are filled with classic rock acts cashing in on nostalgia and not much new material.