GUITAR WOLG...Tony Iommi
Heavy metal was born upon this man’s severed finger tips—it doesn’t get more metal than that. Following an accident while working in a sheet metal factory, Anthony Iommi questioned whether he would play guitar ever again. Encouraged to continue his music, Iommi learned to play with his guitar flipped and with his finger tips covered with plastic. What he soon learned following his return to music is that he would create the sound that would birth a genre. Black Sabbath’s evil sound emerged in 1968 out of Iommi’s Hand of Doom. Along with Geezer Butler, Iommi sustained Sabbath through 40-plus years of existence. Even through times of extreme substance abuse (albeit producing some of his best guitar work) and a revolving door of members in the 80’s, the original metal band survived. Iommi also spent time in Ronnie James Dio’s Heaven and Hell project and released a few solo albums when Sabbath split for a little while in the early 2000s. Ultimately, Iommi is the original metal guit