BLACK SABBATH Guitar Legend TONY IOMMI Reveals Heavy Metal’s Bloody Origins In New Animated Short; Video Online
February 19, 2015, 9 years ago
67 years ago today clouds blackened the skies over Birmingham, England to herald the birth of the future Father of Heavy Metal, Anthony Frank “Tony” Iommi of Black Sabbath.
But did you know that if it weren’t for a tragic industrial accident which chopped off the tops of two of the fingers on his fretting hand, he might not ever have created the heavy metal guitar sound that has reverberated through the ages?
VH1.com’s new animated series, The Complete History Of Heavy Metal, explores how the guitarist made “a good thing off a bad thing” in its inaugural episode, Fingers Bloody Fingers.
Read more and watch the above-mentioned video at VH1.com.
