Iommi’s confirmation comes after longtime Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde expressed hope that Black Sabbath could tour again in ...

We all know him as the guitarist for Black Sabbath but to celebrate his birthday, here are ten things you might not know ...

Before becoming a rock legend, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi worked in a sheet metal plant, where he lost the tips of two of his fingers in an accident. (It happened during his last day on ...

Iommi's memories of the incident are accompanied by the above animated clip, which is titled The Complete History of Heavy Metal: Fingers Bloody Fingers and seems to be the first in a planned ...

Tool guitarist Adam Jones explains how Tony Iommi's triumph over adversity was every bit as influential as his horror-influenced riffs – and what to expect from his Back to the Beginning collabs with ...

Tony Iommi's 2000 debut solo album, featured contributions from Billy Idol, Dave Grohl, Ian Astbury, and Billy Corgan, among ...

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi is a godfather of heavy metal, but his career was almost cut short. As a 17-year-old, Iommi was involved in an industrial accident that resulted in the loss off the tips ...

He’d lost the ends of several fingers on his fretting hand in an industrial accident when he was 17, requiring that he devise leather thimbles to cover his damaged finger tips. .

The legendary Black Sabbath guitarist is being featured in a new VH1.com animated series The Complete History of Heavy Metal.

Iommi's musical career was nearly derailed prematurely as he suffered a horrible accident at a sheet metal factory, when a machine sliced off the tips of the fingers on his right hand.

Iommi’s loss of the tips of two fingers in his youth—which drove him to invent the stark style that launched a million riffs—is treated perfunctorily and without an ounce of drama.