“Goodbye Lament” by Tony Iommi

"Goodbye Lament" opens a door you wouldn't expect on Iommi, the 2000 debut solo album from British heavy metal guitarist Tony Iommi: it's Dave Grohl on the microphone and behind the kit at the same time. The record took nearly five years to put together, and every track was written by Iommi, producer Bob Marlette and whoever was singing it, so here the writing credit reads Grohl, Iommi and Marlette.

Iommi supplies the riffs, Brian May drops in extra guitar, Laurence Cottle plays bass, and Marlette produced, engineered and mixed it. What comes out is a heavy, grinding slab with Grohl's voice pushing hard against Iommi's guitar, two generations of loud meeting in the middle.

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