![]() Bill kept playing it, and I just went to this riff.” He started doing it, and I just went (sings bending string bit before the song’s riff) and came up with this thing and thought, That’s cool. Iommi recalled: “I was in a rehearsal room, and Bill started playing this boom, boom, boom. As he has mentioned at points before, the “riffmaster” explained that his riffs just pop into his mind, as if by magic. In a 2021 interview with Songfacts, guitarist Tony Iommi revealed how he created the song’s most defining feature, the riff. It is also worth clearing up at this point, that the ubiquitous Marvel Universe character bears no relation to Sabbath’s, regardless of what the MCU’s nerdy sticklers for easter eggs would tell you. That’s the big difference.Guitarist Tony Iommi also used a similar effect on the guitar solo for ‘Paranoid’. Whereas Jesus died to save people, Iron Man takes his revenge. He’s like, this guy and goes and does good, and then he comes and tries to spread the word and ends up being crucified for telling the truth.” He continues, “that was Iron Man seeing the future and coming back to tell the world how horrible it’s gonna be, and people turn against him. However, this is far from the first time that the term’s origins have been thrown into question with many crediting Steppenwolf as inventing the phrase in their 1968 hit, Born To Be Wild, with the track’s lyrics reading: “I like smoke and lightnin’/ heavy metal thunder”.Įlsewhere in the interview, the bassist also reminisced over some of the band’s most successful releases, eventually continuing to describe the little-known origins of one of their biggest hits.ĭescribing the 1970 track, Iron Man, Butler confirmed the biblical message behind the lyrics – stating that the inspiration for the song’s protagonist came from Jesus Christ: While intended to be an insult to the band, Butler infers that the members instead sought pride in the label, which eventually distinguished their sound from other artists on the scene. “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.” “When we were on tour in America - I think it was the second tour in the States - I read this review, and the guy said, ‘This isn’t music it sounds like a bunch of heavy metal being smashed together.’” Butler states. Stating that the label first came into existence during the early 1970s, the bassist estimates that the phrase was used exclusively in the United States as an insulting context, saying that Black Sabbath ultimately got “stuck with it”. In an interview with The Eddie Trunk Podcast, Geezer Butler, one of the founding fathers of the heavy metal genre, described how he believes the term first came into existence. ![]() READ MORE: Alex Lifeson Declares His “Touring Days Are Over”, Explains Why He’s No Longer Interested In Soloing. ![]() The musician also went on to describe the backstory behind one of their biggest hits, claiming that the inspiration came from an unlikely source. ![]() Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has described how the term “ heavy metal” was first used as a sarcastic way of describing the band’s music, before being coined as the official name of the genre. ![]()
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