Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath is about to launch a career-spanning autobiography later this 12 months.
Titled Into the Void: From Start to Black Sabbath – and Past, the autobiography is because of hit bookshelves on June 6, and can hint the founding Black Sabbath bassist’s private {and professional} life. The latter subject will embody a recount of Black Sabbath’s a number of line-up modifications and inside struggles, in addition to the band’s “beginnings as a scrappy blues quartet”, in response to an official synopsis.
“A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metallic musician and founding member of Black Sabbath, protecting his years because the band’s bassist and most important lyricist by his later-career initiatives, and detailing how certainly one of rock’s most influential bands fashioned and prevailed,” the synopsis provides.
Into the Void is alleged to incorporate appearances and mentions of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and The Who. With reference to Butler’s private life, the e-book will chronicle the bassist’s working-class upbringing in Birmingham, his deserted profession as an accountant, and his “disillusionment with organized faith and sophistication programs”.
Into the Void marks the third memoir written by a member of Black Sabbath’s unique line-up. Ozzy Osbourne’s I Am Ozzy arrived in 2009, whereas Iron Man: My Journey by Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath by Tony Iommi was launched in 2011. Ronnie James Dio – who first served because the band’s vocalist between 1979 to 1982 – had his memoir, Rainbow within the Darkish: The Autobiography, posthumously launched in 2021.
Information of Butler’s autobiography first emerged in March 2021. In April of final 12 months, the bassist revealed he had accomplished the primary draft.