Tony Iommi has written two songs for new Black Sabbath album

Fri, 20 Jan 2012

Earlier this month, Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath announced the terrible news that the guitarist had been diagnosed with Lymphoma and the band revealed they were moving the work on their new album from Los Angeles to the UK so they could continue working on their first album together in 33 years.

As Tony Iommi recovers the band have now set up in his home studio, and bassist Geezer Butler has updated fans on his website of the bands progress so far revealing the guitarist has written two songs already.

"Today [January 19th) we got the engines back up and running at Tony's home studio. 

Far from being down and depressed about his lymphoma diagnosis, Tony had already written the music for two new songs, and I must say it has given us all a kick up the rump — it's great to hear him churning out those riffs again, assuaging the Demon C. 

Takes more than that to stop Tony. Can't wait for you all to hear our workings; it has been great working on this stuff."

Black Sabbath are still aiming to headline this summer's Download Festival as part of their reunion.

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