Tony Iommi is Widely Credited with Inventing Heavy Metal Music
It is challenging to develop a new musical genre, as we have stated. However, that is the present, and every genre had to begin somewhere. For instance, after losing his fingertips, renowned guitarist Tony Iommi began playing heavy metal. Iommi lost the tips of two of his fingers when a machine crushed them in 1965 when he was working in a factory.
He had just begun to take music seriously and was concerned that the tragedy would damage his career. So, using his own hands, he started adjusting his technique for playing the guitar to see what he might achieve. He would later contribute that sound to the group Black Sabbath and create the heavy metal subgenre as a result.
Iommi lost the tips of his right middle and ring fingers in an accident on his last day of employment in a sheet metal plant as a youngster, which had a significant effect on his playing technique. In 1968, he briefly left Black Sabbath (then known as Earth) to join Jethro Tull, but he did not release any music with them. In 1969, he rejoined Black Sabbath. Iommi, his debut solo album, was released in 2000. Fused, featuring Glenn Hughes, his former bandmate, was released in 2005. He founded Heaven & Hell after releasing Fused, but the band split up in 2010 after Ronnie James Dio passed away.
Born: 19 February 1948 (age 74)
Years active: 1964–present
