{"id":22388,"date":"2026-07-30T21:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=22388"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:19:44","slug":"tony-iommi-nabbed-queens-brian-may-for-new-solo-album-missed-out-on-geezer-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=22388","title":{"rendered":"Tony Iommi Nabbed Queen&#8217;s Brian May for New Solo Album, Missed Out on Geezer Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1614850\" data-title=\"Tony Iommi Nabbed Queen\u2019s Brian May for New Solo Album, But Missed Out on Geezer Butler\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/07\/tony-iommi-solo-album-brian-may-geezer-butler\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p>Black Sabbath legend <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/tony-iommi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Iommi<\/a> announced his new solo album <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/07\/tony-iommi-new-solo-album-single-world-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>From the Dark<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday, and revealed additional details in an interview with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/tony-iommi-from-the-dark-interview-black-sabbath-ozzy-1235599849\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>, one of which is that his good friend <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/brian-may\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian May<\/a> of Queen is the only special guest on the album.<\/p>\n<p>Iommi\u2019s first solo LP in more than 20 years is set to be released on October 23rd. May provided a guitar solo on the track \u201cDeath Wake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.consequence.net\/collections\/vinyl-records\/?sort_by=title-ascending&amp;filter.p.tag=Black+Sabbath\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\">Get Black Sabbath Albums on Vinyl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a weird riff,\u201d said Iommi of \u201cDeath Wake,\u201d adding, \u201cI like that track as well. I like anything doom. Of course, I got Brian May on it playing the solo on that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Iommi went on to say about first meeting May, \u201cIn the very early \u201970s, he was in one studio, and I was in another. And we just hit it off. We\u2019ve been friends for, God, nearly 60 years. We stay in touch all the time. He\u2019s played onstage a couple of times with me, and then we\u2019ve done a couple of album tracks we played on together. He\u2019s a very, very close friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If it was up to Iommi, May would\u2019ve had a larger presence on the upcoming album, with the Black Sabbath guitarist noting, \u201cI did say to him, \u201cDo you want to play on something else?\u201d He said, \u201cNo, no. Your solos are good. I don\u2019t need to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Iommi and May jammed on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fpMP9dh481U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rendition of Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201cParanoid\u201d<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Iommi also would have liked to have his Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler play bass throughout the album, but it didn\u2019t work out. \u201cI wanted him to play on this album, but he couldn\u2019t do it,\u201d disclosed Iommi. \u201cHe\u2019s doing his own album, I think. Or at the time, something happened there, so he couldn\u2019t come to England. I wanted to get it done and finally get it out, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Iommi tapped Becky Baldwin of Mercyful Fate, saying, \u201cShe plays in Geezer\u2019s style. And that\u2019s what I wanted. 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