The Black Sabbath guitarist whose riffs defined a genre and whose playing adapted after a factory accident.
For the pure, heavy blueprint, start with the 1970 Black Sabbath album. His solo track "Into the Night" shows the riff work never stopped.
When Black Sabbath released their self-titled debut in 1970, Iommi's heavy, distorted riffs established a template that bands have been following ever since. Songs like "Into the Night" from his solo work show he kept writing outside the band too. That sound started with a Birmingham teenager listening to B.B. King, then reshaping everything after losing two fingertips.
He started in a band called Earth, which became Black Sabbath. After the 1970 debut, he kept writing for albums like "Paranoid" and "Master of Reality." Later, he released solo material including songs like "Time Is Mine."
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