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Geezer

Великобритания

Alternative Metal
Heavy Metal

http://www.gzrmusic.com
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5 янв 2026 :	GEEZER BUTLER Is 'Using An A.I. Singer' During Songwriting Process For His Upcoming Solo Album: 'It's Really Helped Me', He Says
16 ноя 2025 :	GEEZER BUTLER On His Future Plans In Music: 'I'm Always Writing, I'm Always Playing'
8 окт 2025 :	You Can Own Amp Heads Used By GEEZER BUTLER At BLACK SABBATH's Final Show
15 окт 2024 :	BLACK SABBATH Bassist GEEZER BUTLER Honored By Animal Wellness Organization
25 июл 2024 :	BLACK SABBATH's GEEZER BUTLER: 'Unless You've Experienced True Depression, You Can't Describe It'
16 июл 2024 :	BLACK SABBATH's GEEZER BUTLER Says THE BEATLES 'Were A Massive Influence' On Him
18 май 2024 :	GEEZER BUTLER Announces Paperback Edition Of "Into The Void: From Birth To Black Sabbath-And Beyond"
27 ноя 2023 :	GEEZER BUTLER Disputes OZZY OSBOURNE's Claim He Never Contacted Him To Check On Him During Illness
21 авг 2023 :	GEEZER BUTLER Opens Up About His Past Battles With Depression: 'People Used To Think I Was Moody And Miserable'
7 авг 2023 :	BLACK SABBATH's GEEZER BUTLER Says He Hasn't Eaten Meat Since He Was Eight Years Old
11 июл 2023 :	GEEZER BUTLER Says Recording Audio Version Of His Autobiography Was 'One Of The Hardest Things' He Has Ever Done
28 июн 2023 :	GEEZER BUTLER Once Again Says He Was Using 'Devil Horns' Hand Gesture Years Before RONNIE JAMES DIO
27 июн 2023 :	BLACK SABBATH's GEEZER BUTLER Hated Recording Audio Version Of His Autobiography: 'It Was Nerve-Racking'
21 июн 2023 :	GEEZER BUTLER On OZZY OSBOURNE: 'We've Fallen Out Loads Of Times Over The Past 50 Years'
12 июн 2023 :	BLACK SABBATH's GEEZER BUTLER Explains Why He Didn't Use Co-Writer For His Autobiography
2 апр 2023 :	BLACK SABBATH Bassist GEEZER BUTLER's 'Into The Void' Autobiography: Book Cover Unveiled
18 фев 2023 :	BLACK SABBATH Bassist GEEZER BUTLER's Autobiography Gets Title, Release Date
11 июн 2022 :	BLACK SABBATH's GEEZER BUTLER Tests Positive For COVID-19 Again
3 май 2022 :	BLACK SABBATH Bassist GEEZER BUTLER's Autobiography To Arrive In Early 2023
9 апр 2022 :	BLACK SABBATH Bassist GEEZER BUTLER Completes First Draft Of His Autobiography
25 окт 2021 :	BLACK SABBATH's GEEZER BUTLER Explains Why He Never Swears
26 июн 2021 :	BLACK SABBATH's GEEZER BUTLER To Release 'Manipulations Of The Mind' Box Set Of Solo Albums
27 май 2021 :	GEEZER BUTLER Got A Visit From 'COVID Police' While In Quarantine
18 мар 2021 :	BLACK SABBATH's GEEZER BUTLER: Why Now Is Right Time For Me To Write A Memoir
14 мар 2021 :	GEEZER BUTLER Says He Was Using 'Devil Horns' Hand Gesture Years Before RONNIE JAMES DIO: 'I Showed It To Him And He Made It Famous'
12 мар 2021 :	GEEZER BUTLER On Why He Decided To Join DEADLAND RITUAL: Being In A Band Is 'What I've Known Since I Started' Playing Music

5 янв 2026

GEEZER BUTLER Is 'Using An A.I. Singer' During Songwriting Process For His Upcoming Solo Album: 'It's Really Helped Me', He Says

During a question-and-answer session at the 2025 Steel City Con, which was held December 5-7, 2025 in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, legendary BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler was asked if he has any more solo albums "in the tank". He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Oh, gosh. I've got tons of stuff. Since we finished the last SABBATH show [at 'Back To The Beginning' in July 2025], I've just been going through all the stuff that I've written since the '80s onwards and updating everything. And what held me back before, I didn't have a singer when I'm at home, but A.I. [artificial intelligence] came along. [Laughs] So all my songs now, I've updated them all and I'm using an A.I. singer to bring all the lyrics out. So now I can take it to singers that I'm gonna be working with and go, 'This is what I want on the album,' so they've got a better idea. Before I was just, like, playing them a bass riff or something, going, 'Can you sing to this?' And they'd be going, 'Yeah.' [Laughs] But it's so much better now, 'cause you can sit in your studio and do everything on A.I. and then take it to proper musicians and let them take over. It's really helped me. A lot of people think it's cheating."

Asked what his songwriting process is like, Geezer said: "With SABBATH — SABBATH, we'd sit down in a room together and just jam and jam and jam until somebody came up with something that we could work with. Once we had a good riff to write to, we'd finish the music part of it. Ozzy [Osbourne, SABBATH vocalist] would sing his vocal line, then I'd write the lyrics. So it mainly came from jamming."

The nineties were a testing time for many of rock's iconic leaders of the seventies. The nostalgia era that is now an industry of its own had yet to really come to prominence and many of the musicians who were there at rock's dawn were left floundering as the new decade rolled around and an innovative and fresh wave of "alternative" rock dominated the music world.

1995 saw the release of Geezer's first solo album, "Plastic Planet", followed in 1997 by "Black Science", with "Ohmwork" completing the trilogy in 2005. In October 2020, all three albums were made available for the first time ever on vinyl via BMG, with both CD and LP using newly updated cover artwork.

"Plastic Planet" was originally released under the name G/Z/R and featured Burton C. Bell of Californian industrial/groove metal pioneers FEAR FACTORY on vocals and is considered a classic of '90s metal. The album perfectly melded Geezer's roots in doomy blues rock to the industrial influenced metal sound that was a key element in pushing the genre forward in the nineties.

Alongside Bell for this recording was a long-time collaborator of Geezer's, Peter Howse (nicknamed "Pedro" by Butler, from a character in the TV show "Four Feather Falls"). Howse was a founding member of the GEEZER BUTLER BAND in 1985, and has written and played in all versions of GZR/GEEZER. Drums were handled by Deen Castronovo, providing the pounding rhythms that propel the heavy grooves and mechanical metallic edge on "Plastic Planet". Lyrically, Butler channelled technological, sci-fi and dystopian subjects mixed with the social issues tackled on "Drive Boy, Shooting" and "The Invisible", themes that perfectly matched the then futuristic sounds within.

Returning in 1997 with "Black Science" and originally released this time under the name GEEZER, this album saw Butler once again working with drummer Deen Castronovo and guitarist Pedro Howse, and like "Plastic Planet", was produced by Butler and Paul Northfield (RUSH, ALICE COOPER, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, DREAM THEATER). Bell was unable to provide vocals this time due to commitments with FEAR FACTORY, but his industrial boots were more than adequality filled by the then completely unknown Clark Brown who stepped up to the plate and delivered an impressively powerful vocal performance over the album's high-energy and heavy power grooves.

It wouldn't be until 2005 that Geezer would get the chance to continue his solo explorations, having returned to SABBATH for the 1997 edition of Ozzfest, remaining in the band ever since, but in 2005 he released "Ohmwork", this time under the name GZR. Once again, the recording was undertaken with Clark Brown on vocals and Pedro Howse on guitar, the difference this time being that drum duties were handled by Chad E. Smith (the veteran St. Louis drummer, not the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS percussionist of the same name).

With "Ohmwork", gone were the industrial metal influences of the previous decade, but Butler still steadfastly refused to hark back to the past and kept everything contemporary, drawing on influences, as a keen follower of music, on everything that was happening in rock at the time. From the pedal to the metal of "Aural Sects" to the epic, neo-psychedelia of "I Believe", "Ohmwork" was a fitting finale to Geezer's solo album trilogy.

A founding member of BLACK SABBATH, Butler is also the lyricist of such SABBATH classics as "War Pigs", "Iron Man", "Paranoid" and others.

At the aforementioned "Back To The Beginning" concert, Ozzy and the other original SABBATH members performed four songs for more than 40,000 people at Villa Park in the band's original hometown of Birmingham, United Kingdom and 5.8 million more on a livestream. Ozzy also played a five-song solo set while seated in a bat-adorned throne.

Geezer's autobiography, "Into The Void: From Birth To Black Sabbath - And Beyond", arrived in June 2023 in North America via HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books.

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