{"id":96319,"date":"2022-04-05T08:53:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alzd.de\/?p=96319"},"modified":"2022-04-05T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:03:18","slug":"tony-iommi-and-xerjoff-how-does-darkness-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alzd.de\/en\/2022\/04\/05\/tony-iommi-and-xerjoff-how-does-darkness-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Iommi and Xerjoff: How does darkness smell?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tony Iommi and Sergio Momo of Xerjoff have collaborated. What happens when these two creative heavyweights collide? The new single “Scent of Dark” and the fragrance Tony Iommi Monkey Special by Xerjoff Blends were created.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t have to say much about Sergio Momo at this point. His Italian luxury fragrance house Xerjoff<\/a> should be known to every niche fragrance lover for a long time and has already been discussed and celebrated<\/a> here many times. In the field of music, it’s the same with Tony Iommi. Anyone with even a rudimentary interest in rock since the ’70s will know, appreciate and perhaps even revere Iommi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tony Iommi and Sergio Momo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tony Iommi – the father of heavy metal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Iommi is a co-founder and the only permanent member of the legendary British band Black Sabbath, whose lead singer Ozzy Osbourne probably made it to somewhat more questionable TV fame, but who left the band in the late ’70s and didn’t return until 1997. Guitarist Iommi is considered the founding father of heavy metal, along with Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. His heavily distorted, monolithic riffs have a high recognition value and laid the foundation for the whole genre including many other subgenres like Doom or Black Metal as well as for other varieties of Hard Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne, 1970
Warner Bros. Records<\/a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Band name as well as appearance of the band used the popular horror elements of that time, so the music especially of the first albums has a dark, melancholic, sometimes threatening mood. Personally, I’ve enjoyed listening to Black Sabbath on and off for over 20 years. Especially the first albums are real milestones in music history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scent of Dark<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Iommi and Momo’s collaboration was not a one-way street. In the instrumental “Scent of Dark” Momo himself takes up the strings of his Iommi signature guitar and plays the first solo. But see for yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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