In a 1992 interview with Guitar World magazine, Iommi stated about the "Dehumanizer" period: "Getting back together with Ronnie James Dio was a little rough in the beginning - there were all kinds of egos bouncing around. Eventually, Martin and his "Forbidden"-era bandmates were ousted when guitarist Tony Iommi reunited with SABBATH's fellow original members. So we sort of moved on, really."īLACK SABBATH released six albums with Martin on vocals: "The Eternal Idol" (1987), "Headless Cross" (1989), "Tyr" (1990), "Cross Purposes" (1994), "Cross Purposes Live" (1995) and "Forbidden" (1995). But I don't think I could better, really, what they'd done. I've got a couple of brief cassette copies of something I tried, but it's really horrible quality - just a cassette thing. But I doubt very much - in fact, I'm 99 percent certain there's nothing left of. So at that point I was kind of thinking, 'I don't really wanna just keep copying people's stuff.' I did try and I did put some demos down. There's no point in asking me to do it if you don't want me to sound like me. And I have to make it sound like Tony Martin. I just couldn't get anything that was gonna sound better than what they'd done. So there was a connection going through the 'Dehumanizer' thing pretty much most of the way through - not in a constant way, but on and off."Īsked if he did any studio recordings for "Dehumanizer", Martin said: "Yeah, I did try. And, of course, Dio comes offstage and I'm still backstage. 'Cause, obviously, Tony Iommi had invited me. Actually, Dio wasn't pleased at all to see me there. In fact, I went to the show in my hometown with Dio.
Probably the best thing to do is just continue with Dio, and then we'll talk afterwards.' So even through the Dio period, there was connections, and I was still talking to Tony. I need to take it away and sit with it and work it out.' They said, 'We don't have the time for that.', 'I'm gonna have to leave it with you.
And I said, 'Look, if I'm gonna do this, I need to rewrite this whole thing. And I did try to get some melodies and stuff, but they were short of time, as usual. And he said, 'Are you sure you can't come back? It's really not working.' So they invited me to go to the studio when they were recording the stuff, so I went down there. Okay.' So then a few months went by, and he called me again. I've already started doing my solo stuff and I've moved on.', 'Okay. I got a call from Tony Iommi saying, 'This isn't going very well Dio.' I said, 'Oh, really?' And he said, 'No. I was just so shocked by that, I didn't know what to say, do or anything.' But within weeks I was back - it was four, five, six weeks maybe, something like that. What?' And he said, 'They don't want your services anymore.', 'What? You're kidding me.' I just didn't see that coming at all. And my manager, and he said, 'You'd better sit down, kid.' I, 'Go on. In fact, I was walking out of the door to go to rehearsals for the next album, and the phone rang just as I was leaving the door.
He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "They fired me, which, by the way, was a complete surprise. Tony Martin, who fronted BLACK SABBATH from 1987 to 1991 and then again from 1993 to 1997, confirmed to Almost Human in a new interview that he recorded some demos for the band's "Dehumanizer" album during a period when Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler were having a hard time getting along with a returning Ronnie James Dio.
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