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Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) is planning to release a new solo album in 2026. The guitarist confirmed the news while reflecting on 2025 in a new video.

Iommi said the following:

“Hello, everybody. I hope you had a great Christmas. We have; we had a great time. 2025 for me started off really well. And we had the Tony Martin [-era Black Sabbath re-]release of ‘Eternal Idol’ come out. And shortly after that I was asked by [British pop singer] Robbie Williams’s drummer Karl Brazil if I’d play on a track with Robbie, which, of course, I said, ‘Yes, that would be great.’ And as far as I was concerned, it was gonna be an album track, but then Robbie released it as a single, which is even better. And we did a video for it. And the track was called ‘Rocket’, and I really enjoyed it. It was really different for me to do that. We also had the launch of my new web site, which I was very pleased with. Sabbath got together, the original Sabbath [members], and we were presented with the Freedom Of The City [award] from [our original hometown of] Birmingham, which was absolutely amazing. I mean, I never thought we’d ever get that, which is a great honor. And also around Birmingham, they’d done ‘Summer Of Sabbath’, which meant that they had a lot of paintings around of Sabbath on the walls, and it was really good. And all Birmingham became sort of a Sabbath city. It was really great seeing [fellow original Sabbath members] Ozzy [Osbourne], Bill [Ward] and Geezer [Butler] for Freedom Of The City. And at that point, of course, we were into rehearsals for the ‘Back To The Beginning’ show at the Villa grounds in Birmingham. And the amount of bands that turned up to support Sabbath on that was just fantastic. What a great event. And, of course, it raised a lot of money for charity. It’s just unfortunate and sad that Ozzy passed away a couple of weeks after that, which, you know, may he rest in peace.

And on a brighter note, I had the release of the Laney TI100 limited-edition amplifier. And I also used those on the ‘Back To Beginning’ [show], which are really great amps. I really like ’em. And Laney have done a great job on that. And also in August I had the release of the Gibson Tony Iommi pickup. Then in September we had the second run of the ‘Black Sabbath – The Ballet’, which went amazingly well. It completely sold out in England. And [Birmingham Royal Ballet director] Carlos Acosta and all the team had done just a fantastic job. And I did play on the London shows, a couple of the shows, with them, and in Birmingham. So it went really good. They are so amazing, those dancers and choreographers and all that, and I take my hat off to them. Really good.

Then in November, December, we had a guitar raffle for Heartlands hospital for their cancer unit, the new cancer unit, which they have done. So we tried to raise money to buy beds and all the equipment that they need. I’m glad to say we raised 53,000 pounds, which is amazing. Thanks to you guys. Also, there’s a Gibson documentary coming out very, very soon. And then, of course, in 2026. I shall have definitely, definitely my solo album out. And I’m really looking forward to that. I’m enjoying doing it, and it’s been great fun, and I really hope you enjoy it. But I’ll keep you more up to date as we go on, what’s happening with that and when it’s gonna be released. In the meantime, very happy new year and take care. All the best.”

[via Blabbermouth]