Tony Martin, the former singer of BLACK SABBATH, was asked if he would be interested in working with Tony Iommi once more in the future in a recent interview with Niclas Müller-Hansen of RockSverige.
In response, he replied, “I would and I’ve previously stated that I’d be up for it if he felt like doing something. Tony doesn’t seem to be truly What’s the word? I believe he has outlived his need to accomplish things.
This is not necessary for him to perform. He’s not really interested in touring, as you get older and he had that issue with the cancer stuff. I’m not sure whether he needs to, but he could make the strange appearance. Though it’s one of these things, I’d like to
I mean, they could still get Bill Ward back in the band and start again, in theory. Once people start passing along, you can’t sort of do that anymore. I’ve already said that I wouldn’t mind doing something if they were interested. We’ll see how it goes.”
As for whether he was involved with putting together the “Anno Domini 1989-1995” box set of the Martin-era SABBATH recordings, which was made available on May 31 via Rhino, the singer said: “No.
I had nothing to do with putting it together. They did tell me that they were going to do it and I put a few suggestions forward of what we could possibly have on it.
Some of the missing material that I’ve got that hadn’t been used before, but they couldn’t do that because of the contract thing so they couldn’t really have anything considered ‘new BLACK SABBATH‘ so they had to concentrate on what they already had.
They told me, but they handled everything themselves—Immi and his engineers—and they performed an excellent job. A few months back, I went to his place and, as I sat there listening, I thought, “Holy crap, this sounds really good.” Even “Forbidden,” which they remixed, sounds like it’s matured and grown into an adult.
They have the current sound of SABBATH songs. It sounds more like SABBATH, but with a little less synthesizer and more guitar focus.”
For the “Anno Domini 1989-1995” box set, which comes with either CDs or LPs, Iommi has remastered the albums “Headless Cross”, “Tyr” and “Cross Purposes” and even remixed “Forbidden”.
“There’s some great stuff with Tony Martin,” Iommi told DPA in a recent interview. “The funny thing is, though, when we had that lineup together, it was difficult because people wouldn’t quite all accept it at the time.
“I financed that whole project, the touring and buses and everything else. I paid for it personally,” he said. “I really enjoyed the band, I enjoyed the stuff we were doing.”
