Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Greatest Hits Radio, Queen guitarist Brian May discussed his contribution to William Shatner’s upcoming metal album. Notably, he also confirmed that Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi contributed to the project as well.

May said the following:

“[Shatner] wasn’t a friend of mine, but he is now. We’ve met on Zoom. What a great guy. He’s 95. And he’s full of life and vitality and ambition and anger and all this stuff. He’s like a kid. I really enjoyed meeting him, and I insisted that I do ’cause I just worked on his track remotely and I said, ‘Look, I gotta play this to Mr. Shatner and see his face when he hears it.’ And he loved it, so I’m really pleased.

Yeah, it’s a heavy metal album. Here he is, 95 years old, and he’s full of rage, rage against the dying of the light. You’ll hear it. I mean, I’ve worked hard on it. He loves it, and I love the song ’cause you might think William Shatner… I mean, if you don’t know ‘Star Trek’, it doesn’t mean anything perhaps, but if you’ve lived like we did through all those editions of ‘Star Trek’, he’s a hero, and he’s, in later life, become a real luminary in the world. He does so much for children, so much for the outreach of science. He’s a very active man, and for him to step into… Well, it’s not… I don’t call it heavy metal; I call it rock, really. But it will probably be a heavy metal album because I think Tony Iommi’s gonna play on it now as well. Tony’s really my best mate, so it’s easy for me to pick up the phone to him. And Tony’s like me — he loves a challenge.”

[via Blabbermouth]