The legendary English guitarist Tony Iommi is the founding member of Black Sabbath, a group considered (rightly and correctly, it should be said) the creators of Heavy Metal, a style that still makes millions of people happy today. Iommi, who is also known for being the greatest riff maker of all time, recorded songs that have become immortal classics, such as “Paranoid”, “Iron Man”, “Children Of The Grave”, “Snowblind”, “Heaven And Hell” and many others.
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It’s no exaggeration to say that if it weren’t for Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath, Heavy Metal might be different. The guitarist and his band partners paved the way for all the bands that followed the path of heavy music in later years.
However, before becoming one of the strongholds of Heavy Metal, Tony Iommi played Blues. And according to the iconic guitarist, he started to play a heavier rhythm due to an unusual reason, as shown in an interview given by Iommi to Classic Rock magazine in 1992.
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“Well, to be honest, we got so tired of people talking while we played that we said, ‘Screw it, let’s turn it up so they can’t chatter.’ [risos]. The band became increasingly noisy”, reported Iommi, who also told how people reacted when Sabbath started to make their sound heavier and darker.
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“After we wrote ‘Wicked World’ and ‘Black Sabbath,’ we thought, ‘Well, we’re going to have to try them out. [ao vivo]’. When we did that, everyone in the club froze. All the Blues people said, ‘What is this?’. The reactions were very strong, both for and against. But I think most people liked what we were doing because they had never heard anything like it,” concluded the guitarist.
Ultimately, Iommi made the right choice, as Sabbath became a legend and built one of the most respected discographies in metal history.
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