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Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has recalled the time that his bandmate Tony Iommi was nearly “sacrificed” onstage by a “lunatic”.Speaking to Reader’s Digest, Butler reflected on growing up in a strict Catholic home, the band’s “satanic” imagery and how that resulted in several weird experiences for the metal pioneers.“My dad wasn’t very pleased when he saw the inverted cross on the sleeve of our first album. But, generally, nobody in the UK or Europe cared that much about our Satanic imagery,” Butler shared.He went on to explain: “In the US, though, people would threaten us and turn up at our gigs with crosses and bibles. In Nashville, someone jumped on stage and went for Tony with a knife.

Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler has set a release date for his upcoming memoir, Into The Void: From Birth To Black Sabbath. The memoir will trace the founding Black Sabbath bassist’s personal and professional life. The latter topic will include a recount of Black Sabbath’s multiple line-up changes and internal struggles, as well as the band’s “beginnings as a scrappy blues quartet”, according to the book’s synopsis.The book will be released this year on June 6 2023, something Butler described on Instagram as “6/6/6” as “2×3=6”.In the full post, which you can see below, Butler wrote: “After spending my entire life creating memories, to eventually set aside how reserved I am, I have put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).“The recollection of my life (thus far) is coming out 6/6/23.

Black Sabbath is set to release a career-spanning autobiography later this year. Titled Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath – and Beyond, the autobiography is due to hit bookshelves on June 6, and will trace the founding Black Sabbath bassist’s personal and professional life. The latter topic will include a recount of Black Sabbath’s multiple line-up changes and internal struggles, as well as the band’s “beginnings as a scrappy blues quartet”, according to an official synopsis.“A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black Sabbath, covering his years as the band’s bassist and main lyricist through his later-career projects, and detailing how one of rock’s most influential bands formed and prevailed,” the synopsis adds.Into the Void is said to include appearances and mentions of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and The Who.

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has said that “heavy metal” started off as a “sarcastic” term before it was coined as a name for a musical genre.Speaking in a new interview with Eddie Trunk, which you can listen to below, Butler said  the term was used derogatorily at first, with Sabbath being “stuck with it” in the early 1970s.“When we were on tour in America – I think it was the second tour in the [United] States – I read this review, and the guy said, ‘This isn’t music; it sounds like a bunch of heavy metal being smashed together,’” Geezer recalled.“Somehow that got over to England, and from then on it was like the sarcastic thing they used to apply to us – ‘this isn’t music, it’s a load of heavy metal being smashed together.’ And for some reason we got stuck with it.”Listen to the full interview here:Ozzy Osbourne‘s wife Sharon recently confirmed that the Black Sabbath legend will be releasing a new album this September.She delivered the news during an appearance on The Graham Norton Radio Show which was recorded in April.“He’s good. He’s really, really good.” Sharon said of Ozzy, noting his recent bout with COVID.

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has finished the first draft of an autobiography, though he can’t quite decide what to call it. There are currently five options and, on Twitter earlier this week, he invited fans to let him know which of those five they prefer.Talking about the autobiography in an interview with Cleveland.com last year, Butler said: “I started out because, when my parents died, I always wished I’d asked them a lot more things… I don’t really know much about my mum and dad, because they were always just there.

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has revealed that he’s finished the first draft of his forthcoming autobiography.The musician confirmed over a year ago that he’d written half of the book, which he hopes will offer his grandchildren an insight into his illustrious career with the Ozzy Osbourne-led metal band.“[It’s] been fun going through stuff – old times and growing up in Birmingham, and all that,” Butler explained at the time. “I’m right in the middle of doing that at the moment.”Taking to Twitter last night (April 6), the bassist told fans that he’d “just turned in the 1st draft of my book” and was now thinking of potential titles.“So far, I have: Into the Void, Basses Loaded, Past Forward, What The Butler Did [and] Bassic Instinct,” he wrote, adding: “Feel free to send me which of those you think would suit my #autobiography.”You can see that tweet below.Just turned in the 1st draft of my book so I’m now thinking of titles.

Black Sabbath‘s Geezer Butler has recalled in a new interview how he first showed Ronnie James Dio the ‘devil horns’ hand sign before the late frontman popularised the gesture.The ‘devil horns’ became synonymous with Dio, who passed away in 2010, during his time fronting Black Sabbath.Speaking in a new interview with SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Butler explained how he’d been doing the ‘devil horns’ sign prior to Dio joining the band and that he has “pictures of me doing it since 1971”.“And I always used to do it in the breakdown in the [1970] song ‘Black Sabbath’ – just before it goes into the fast part at the end, I’d do that sign to the audience,” the bassist said.“On the first couple of ‘Heaven And Hell’ tour shows, Ronnie

Black Sabbath reunion shows.The iconic rock band brought their career to a close in 2017 with a string of area concerts, which concluded with a two-night homecoming in Birmingham. There have been whispers of the group potentially reuniting ever since.In a new interview with Eon Music, however, bassist and lyricist Butler said: “There will definitely be no more Sabbath – it’s done.”He added that his Deadland Ritual supergroup could also be finished.

Contemporary music has a long history of pissing off older generations. In some ways it could be seen as its job, with each new generation of pop stars charged with the task of pissing off the people who, when younger, liked music partly because it was pissing off an earlier generation of older people.Does that make sense? Well, let me give you an example: Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler, having previously made music that pissed people off, is now pissed off by new music himself.