Black Sabbath‘s Geezer Butler has confirmed recording has finished on the band’s new album, with mixing due to start this month ahead of a release in June.
“We’ve finished recording it,” he told New York’s Friday Night Rocks radio show. “Tony’s back in England putting down a couple of solos. Then we start mixing it in February and it will be out in June.”
“The provisional title is ’13′ — unless we can come up with something more constructive. I’ve written most of the lyrics. Ozzy comes up with the titles and then gives me an inspiration to write the lyrics. I think we’ve got 16 songs and I’ve written 14 sets of lyrics.”
Butler also gave an update on the health of his bandmate Tony Iommi, who was diagnosed with cancer shortly after the hard rock pioneers announced their reformation last year, causing most of a European tour to be cancelled.
“Tony‘s doing well, he’s really responding well,” Butler continued. “He has to go and have his medication every six weeks. But yeah, he’s really coming along well; he’s really doing well.”
Black Sabbath hope to begin a tour of Australasia and Japan in April, with more dates expected soon.