In a newly shared four-minute New Year’s Day video message, pioneering heavy metallic architect Tony Iommi regarded again on a 12 months stuffed with each celebration and loss, whereas additionally confirming what followers have waited many years to listen to: his long-awaited third solo album is coming in 2026.
2025 was a bittersweet chapter for the Black Sabbath guitarist. The 12 months noticed Iommi reunite along with his authentic bandmates — Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, and Invoice Ward — for a closing, star-studded swan music efficiency in Birmingham this previous July. That historic livestreamed occasion served as a definitive sendoff for the band, however solely weeks later, Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne passed away, casting a shadow over what had in any other case been a monumental farewell.
Alongside reflecting on Ozzy‘s dying, Iommi touched on a number of different main initiatives from the previous 12 months, together with the sold-out return of Black Sabbath – The Ballet, his sudden collaboration with Robbie Williams, and numerous releases tied to his legacy. The most important revelation, nonetheless, got here when he addressed his long-in-the-works solo materials.
Talking instantly within the video, Iommi said: “I shall have undoubtedly, undoubtedly my solo album out. And I am actually trying ahead to that. I am having fun with doing it, and it has been nice enjoyable, and I actually hope you take pleasure in it.”
He additionally briefly talked about {that a} new documentary centered on his life and profession is at the moment in improvement via Gibson, including one more milestone mission to his already packed slate.
Iommi beforehand mentioned the standing of his solo album throughout a July 2025 look on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, explaining how work on the report was quickly paused as a result of Sabbath‘s closing present: “I used to be doing my very own album till [the Back To The Beginning event] got here up, after which, after all, I needed to cease and focus on [preparing for] the Sabbath efficiency. However I am persevering with subsequent week on attempting to complete off what I began with this album. After which who is aware of what I am gonna do then?”
When requested whether or not the upcoming launch would comply with the guest-heavy format of his 2000 solo album Iommi, he clarified that the brand new report has taken a special form: “For the time being, no. I’ve acquired one singer on it in the meanwhile, which I initially considered completely different singers. However it began off because it’s gonna be an instrumental album… and it is gone from I’ve acquired some instrumental stuff, however then I assumed, ‘Oh, I wanna attempt it with a singer.’ And so that is what I have been doing.”
In a separate interview at Steel City Con, Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler additionally revealed that Iommi is working with a “nice singer from Sweden” on the report. Please, please be Messiah Marcolin.
“I used to be really gonna do some… Tony‘s acquired this nice album that he’s doing proper in the meanwhile,” mentioned Butler. “He is simply within the course of — I feel he is within the course of of blending it proper now, so it needs to be out someday [in 2026]. He is acquired this nice singer from Sweden on it.
“And he needed me to do three bass tracks, however he needed me to do them in England, and I can not go to England till June [of 2026]. So if he can hold on that lengthy, I would collaborate with him again in June, if he can wait that lengthy.”
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