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“There are more guitars than usual”: Tony Iommi lends his hellfire riffwork for his most obscure collaboration yet – a new single with the pop icon whose biopic starred a CGI monkey

Tony Iommi and Robbie Williams.

English pop singer Robbie Williams (who was famously depicted as a CGI monkey in his acclaimed biopic, Better Man) has shared the first track from his upcoming album – and in a move that no one saw coming, it features the Godfather of Heavy Metal himself, Tony Iommi.

The electric guitar legend and Gibson SG loyalist can be heard all over the track, hurtling first into an energetic riff before providing a gritted undercurrent for Williams to deliver a fairly snarling vocal performance. Heck, there’s even space for the odd lead guitar flurry.

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