Tony Iommi still writing new songs, says Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler

Black Sabbath’s bassist Geezer Butler revealed that Tony Iommi is still writing new songs and composing melodies regardless of his diagnosis with cancer.

The legendary riff master was recently diagnosed with Lymphoma and it seemed like that the band will have to postpone their release of the new album after 17 years, which consists of the Sabbath’s original line-up.

Butler posted a blog update on January 19 about the band’s progress and revealed that the diagnosis has not dampened Iommi’s spirits at all and he is still determined like he used to be in the past.

The bassist also appreciated all the fans for their support and prayers in the wake of Iommi’s diagnosis.

Butler’s blog post is as follows:

“Greetings Earth people,

Today [Jan 19th] we got the engines back up and running at Tony’s home studio. Far from being down and depressed about his lymphoma diagnosis, Tony had already written the music for two new songs, and I must say it has given us all a kick up the rump — it’s
great to hear him churning out those riffs again, assuaging the Demon C. Takes more than that to stop Tony. Can’t wait for you all to hear our workings, it has been great working on this stuff.

I want to thank the lovely encouraging emails sent to this site giving Tony love and encouragement and great vibes. It really does help, not only Tony, but us as a band- it raises up our spirits and restores our faith in this tarnished world. Sabb fans are
good people, time and again you have proven your faith in us and boosted our endeavour.

   Thanks, love, peace.

    Geezer”.

The band has not yet to confirm about when they would be releasing the album, but it is expected that the album will hit the stores later this year.

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