I\'m A Badass Caption: I can haz links, style or anything that is valid markup :)

Artist News: Black Widow Meets Black Sabbath

Posted on Tuesday, December 22 @ 20:00:00 UTC by nightowl

This brief bit of news came to us from Pasi Koivu, who maintains the Black Widow Myspace site: Clive Jones (Black Widow) and Tony Martin (ex-Black Sabbath) have met and they are planning to work together soon.

Black Widow's reunion album Sleeping With Demons will be released in 2010.

In furtherance to an item we published in July 2008, here's a bit more about the new album, as published at their MySpace site: Geoff Griffith and Clive Jones have been working hard on new Black Widow music and an Italian keyboard wizard Paolo "Apollo" Negri plays keyboards on the new album! Paolo's most famous band is Wicked Minds and he has also various solo projects.



The new album will include such future classics as "Sleeping With Demons" (also the working title of the album), "Hail Satan" (a follow-up song to the old classic "Come To The Sabbat" including the chant and flute), "That's When Evil Touched Me" (including lyrics by the Canadian lyricist and friend Sylvie M.Durette) and "Partytime For Demons" (according to Clive Jones the song was inspired by chatting with Pasi Koivu). Tony Martin, a former vocalist for Black Sabbath (and now having his own solo career) has shown his interest to guest on the new Black Widow album.

[Source: Pasi Koivu/Black Widow MySpace site]

Update - 12:21 22:45: Additional info from e-Prog as posted by frequent poster Robert: Black Widow is currently recording its reunion album, Sleeping With Demons, for a 2010 release. The band's original female vocalist, Kay Garret, has rejoined the group in a studio so her voice will be heard on Black Widow's music again for the first time since 1969. Jones and Geoff Griffith wrote the entire album with the aid of Paolo "Apollo" Negri on keyboards. One of the songs ? "That's When Evil Touched Me" ? has lyrics written by a Canadian lyricist Sylvie M. Durette (Sylvie has also written lyrics for the extreme metal band File Of Ghosts). Another track that will appear on the CD, "Partytime For Demons," got its inspiration from Pasi Koivu, a Finnish rock keyboardist and a close friend to the band.

Jones and Koivu celebrated Black Widow's return by recording "a short horror music thing" called "We Are Back." Jones also gigged as a special guest on Propaghandi's (a Canadian punk/metal act) U.K. tour, making guest appearances during the old Black Widow classic "Come To The Sabbat."

Posted in Band News (tours, comings/goings, etc)