Ahead of the Australian leg of Black Sabbath’s final world tour, lead guitarist Tony Iommi has opened up about his future post-Sabbath in an exclusive interview with theMusic, where he revealed hopes of reuniting with former frontman Tony Martin to record new music, in addition to the re-issues of some of their classic material.
Iommi confirmed that re-releases of Headless Cross and TYR are just around the corner.
“We’ve held back on the reissues of those albums because of the current Sabbath thing with [current frontman Ozzy Osbourne], but they will certainly be happening,” Iommi said.
“…I’d like to do a couple of new tracks for those releases with Tony Martin. I’ll also be looking at working on Cross Purposes (1994) and Forbidden (1995).”
Iommi’s comments come on the back of Martin announcing on his Facebook in January that the two had reconnected for the first time in 15 years and plan to work together.
Martin fronted the band between 1987-1991 and then again from 1993-1997.
This is HUGE fucking news but it’s hope they just get so excited that they forget about doing anything with Forbidden. Some new Martin/Iommi material would be such an awesome and hugely welcome thing after the atrocious “farewell” Black Sabbath tour featuring Ozzy’s grooveless drummer.
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