Yesterday BraveWords reported that Canada's The Metal Voice recently spoke to Kick Axe co-founder and guitarist Larry Gillstrom about writing for other metal bands in the ’80's including Black Sabbath.

Gillstrom explained how the band was asked to write for Sabbath during the Ian Gillan era he said: ”While we were doing Vices album we got the keys to the studio to go in and record some songs that were supposed to go to Black Sabbath with Ian Gillan singing. That was kind of what was going on at the time. (Producer) Spencer (Proffer) was going to be involved with that and he needed some songs and he asked us to try to write some. So we went into the studio with Hans who was the the second engineer on our Vices album. We were just on our own and we we put together four songs and two of them were songs we wanted to actually do on our second album if they didn't get picked up by Black Sabbath. And they didn't get picked up because the whole Ian Gillen, Black Sabbath kind of didn't work the way Spencer wanted it to work. So we wrote the song 'Hunger', ‘Piece of The Rock’ and two other songs 'Running Wild In The Streets' and another song that really wasn't worth mentioning. But those three songs are all recorded. We did eventually release ‘Hunger’ and 'Nothing's Gonna Stand On Our Way' which is a song we recorded with Randy Bishops. But ‘Hunger' and 'Piece Of The rock' we thought they'd be on our second album but when I went to LA and talked to Spencer he said no they're already on King Kobra's album so...."

Check out the chat below:

However, Black Sabbath bass legend Geezer Butler disagrees. "No," he begins."We were looking for a singer, not a song writer. So those songs were sent to Carmine Appice who used them on his King Kobra album."



(Thanks Joe Siegler!)