

Now I’ve got my own custom ones - an abundance of them now.

Then I’d change, from Cartier to Tom Ford, or whatever. I’d go to the mall or stores, and I’d buy some different perfumes and scents until I’d find one that I really like. “All the people that go around viewing the castle were standing there watching me, looking like, ‘What’s he doing? Oh, dear.’ “Įver since went on tour to the States, really, I started getting more and more into it. “The only trouble is, when I was outside filming, I had an audience,” Iommi says during an interview in which he also discussed his future music plans. The musicians filmed the song’s clip, which features copious cologne imagery, at Sudeley Castle near Gloucestershire, England. Momo, who plays an Iommi signature model guitar, takes the first solo on the song, while Jimmy Crutchley (who introduced Iommi to Momo) plays bass, Ash Sheehan handles the drums, and Iommi’s longtime producer Mike Exeter plays keyboards Rebecca Rose and Julianne Bourne play cello and violin, respectively. The track bears all the hallmarks of Iommi’s signature style - a murky, mystical intro heavy, swaggering riffs and, of course, a bluesy, lyrical guitar solo - though with a little more drama than usual, thanks to accents from some orchestral string players. The pair wound up recording “Scent of Dark,” the first musical composition Iommi has released since writing a classical piece for the Birmingham Cathedral in 2017 and first rock song since Black Sabbath’s 2013 album 13.
