It’s a wonderful summer season’s day in rural England, and there’s a celebration of Japanese vacationers exterior Tony Iommi’s home. As an alternative of pointing their smartphone cameras at his place, they {photograph} the honey limestone partitions and horse chestnut timber lining this picturesque village road, unaware that the godfather of heavy metallic is close by.
As a tour information corrals the occasion again to their bus, Black Sabbath’s guitarist seems, defying the fantastic sunshine in his all-black garb, and provides a agency handshake and a cheery “Alright?” in his delicate Brummie burr.
The vacationers don’t hassle Iommi. Nonetheless, any overzealous fan rifling by way of his dustbins is likely to be in for a shock. The teenage Tony famously misplaced the tops of two fingers in an industrial accident, and normal their first replacements from a melted-down washing-up liquid bottle. Lately he will get his bespoke ‘thimbles’ by way of his native hospital’s prosthetic division. God bless the NHS and all that.
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“However the factor is, they ship me an entire rubber arm,” he says, cracking a smile. “I’ve requested them: ‘Why not simply ship a hand?’ However apparently they’ll’t try this. And so they typically ship me 5 arms at a time. So I chop the fingers off and throw the arms within the bin. The dustmen have to be considering: ‘What the bloody hell’s occurring right here? Has he bumped somebody off?’”
Iommi overcame his broken fingers to turn out to be one of many world’s best onerous rock guitarists and songwriters, with Black Sabbath defining the style’s sound and iconography. Battle Pigs, Youngsters Of The Grave, Heaven And Hell, the inverted crosses, the gothic script, these riffs – Iommi and Sabbath invented all of it. Guests are reminded of Iommi’s excessive standing once they enter his residence studio.
The kitchenette is lined with awards and pictures – Tony and fellow guitar hero Jeff Beck, Tony with Dracula actor Christopher Lee – and a poster promoting the 1963 horror film Black Sabbath. “That is the NIGHT of the NIGHTMARE!” it screams, and reveals 4 terrified girls gazing at a horseman carrying his personal severed head. Extra dismembered physique elements, then.
The studio door eases open to disclose an Aladdin’s cave of guitars and extra memorabilia, together with collectible figurines of the basic Sabbath however as a five-piece with an additional Tony (“That will have been higher”). Even the Darkish Lord has the occasional time off, although, and in a single nook hangs a VIP laminate for the digital pop present ABBA Voyage.
The studio console bears Iommi’s signature cross, and an analogous picture graces the art work for his new album, From The Darkish, his first studio launch since Black Sabbath’s 13 in 2013, and the follow-up to 2005’s Fused solo report.
Whereas filled with Iommi’s trademark riffs, From The Darkish additionally appears like a band album, due largely to Norwegian vocalist Jørn Lande, whose efficiency evokes great things like Die Younger, Youngsters Of The Sea and The Signal Of The Southern Cross from the Ronnie James Dio period of Black Sabbath.
From The Darkish was made on this studio, however has uncommon origins. In 2021, Iommi collaborated with the Italian fragrance home Xerjoff to create his first signature perfume, Tony Iommi Monkey Particular (named after his 1964 ‘Monkey Particular’ Gibson SG guitar), and recorded an instrumental, Scent Of Darkish, to promote the product.
“The proprietor of the corporate [Sergio Momo] was a fan,” Iommi explains. “He requested if I’d do a charity report with them, however I couldn’t on the time. However by then he’d despatched over a field of perfumes, and I felt so responsible I phoned him up.”
Throughout their dialog, Momo requested if Iommi would think about launching his personal aftershave vary. “He knew I had this passion of gathering perfumes once I was touring the world. I used to be stunned however agreed to do it, and he advised me to put in writing down a listing of the smells I appreciated – espresso, roses, bergamot, leather-based…”
So properly obtained was Monkey Particular that Xerjoff launched Tony Iommi Deified in 2024 (the place “the heat of saffron meets accents of spiced apple”, based on their web site), which Iommi marketed with an instrumental of the identical identify.
“In order that was a place to begin for the album,” he says. “I used to be contemplating making it an instrumental album, perhaps with an orchestra. However for some time I didn’t know what to do. Ought to or not it’s instrumental? Ought to I’ve visitor vocalists?”
The items step by step fell into place. Iommi and his long-time collaborator, co-writer and co-producer Mike Exeter found the drummer who performs on the album, Karl Brazil, by way of an unlikely supply: Robbie Williams.
“I’ve a spot in Sandbanks,” says Iommi, referring to the Dorset peninsula – nicknamed ‘Millionaires’ Row’ – the place quite a few well-known names personal property. “I used to be strolling down the street and this chap got here as much as me and stated: ‘How are you, Tony?’ I stated: ‘Yeah?’ He stated: ‘It’s Karl.’ I didn’t have any concept who he was, however he stated he knew Mike Exeter and performed with Robbie Williams.” In Could 2025, Iommi added some oomph and a solo to Williams’s single Rocket. “I feel Robbie wished to go a bit heavier,” he suggests.
It’s these offbeat initiatives that led to From The Darkish. With Black Sabbath laid to relaxation after 2025’s Again To The Starting charity present and Ozzy Osbourne’s dying, there was no strain to make an album in any respect: “I didn’t also have a deal once we began.” As an alternative it occurred slowly and organically. And there’s a Birmingham connection too. Karl Brazil was born in Solihull, and the album’s bass guitarist Becky Baldwin lives in Sabbath’s residence metropolis.
“I like the thought of it being a Birmingham undertaking,” says Iommi, who thought-about having ex-Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler play on the report. “However I feel Geezer was doing one thing else. Mike knew Becky and she or he’s acquired Geezer’s fashion of enjoying, and it’s been nice having her concerned.”
Iommi started working with Jørn Lande (who had beforehand labored with the operatic supergroup Avantasia, amongst others) in 2010. That summer season, Lande sang in Iommi and Butler’s band Heaven And Hell at a tribute to their late singer, Ronnie James Dio, at London’s Excessive Voltage Pageant. However Lande had been on Iommi’s radar for years. “I thought-about having him sing on Fused,” he says.
Very like Dio’s supply, Lande sings all the things on From The Darkish like he’s making an attempt to boost the lifeless, and, like Geezer Butler’s lyrics for Sabbath have executed, Lande’s deal with air pollution, nuclear struggle and crooked politicians. “Fifty, sixty years later, and I’m wanting on the world and considering: ‘Oh fuck, we’re nonetheless coping with the struggle pigs,’” says Iommi.
No matter writing credit and contributions, it’s Iommi’s identify on the duvet, although. He as soon as stated that the principle disadvantage with being a bandleader is that “you at all times turn out to be the arsehole”. Did that occur right here?
“No, as a result of I at all times knew it was my album,” he says, grinning. “But it surely was a pleasure to work with musicians who’d do a take after which say: ‘I can do a greater one’, somewhat than: ‘Oh god, do I’ve to do one other?’ They wished to make it higher. However then I’m additionally very self-critical.”
Have you ever at all times been like that?
“Sure. Mike Exeter would give me a duplicate of what we’d executed, I’d go residence and are available again the subsequent morning and wish to change it. You are inclined to assume if it comes too straightforward it’s not adequate. However that’s not at all times the case. Take a look at Paranoid, the throwaway music that grew to become the hit.”
Like a doomsday survivalist hoarding provisions for the approaching apocalypse, Iommi has been stockpiling riffs because the final century. “I’ve acquired CDs and cassettes filled with them, considering that if I ever get caught I can return and get one. However I hardly ever do. Although saying that, I’ll most likely by no means give you one other riff.”
Don’t jinx it.
“No, don’t.”
“The factor is, I don’t have to do that,” he stresses. “It’s not in regards to the cash, as a result of we don’t want the cash. However this…” He gestures in direction of the studio. “That is what I do. I simply can’t get away from it. I’ve issues I wish to say.”
Tony Iommi’s journey from his first group, 1964’s The Rockin’ Chevrolets (who performed Buddy Holly covers and wore purple lamé fits) to Black Sabbath took simply 4 years. In December 1965, the 17-year-old was about to stop his job as a sheet metallic welder to turn out to be an expert musician when a machine sliced off the information of two fingers. The story of how he found a brand new strategy to play guitar is properly documented. And it illustrates the resourcefulness that has helped outline Iommi’s profession.
Inside a yr of the harm, he’d joined native group The Relaxation, whose different guitarist was additionally lacking the highest of 1 digit (“I believed: ‘Bloody hell! Each in the identical band?”), and whose drummer Invoice Ward was so skint he couldn’t afford new drumsticks and sometimes performed with damaged ones.
By 1968, Iommi and Ward had moved to Carlisle, joined a band known as Mythology, and the Buddy Holly covers had lengthy been usurped by blues and progressive rock. Mythology broke up after being busted for dope, and Iommi and Ward skulked again to Birmingham to face their dad and mom. “However Invoice and I caught collectively.”
Among the many new members within the pair’s subsequent journey, the Polka Tulk Blues Band, had been bassist Terence ‘Geezer’ Butler and vocalist John ‘Ozzy’ Osbourne. Iommi, Ward, Butler and Osbourne then grew to become Earth, till December 1968 when Iommi left to affix Jethro Tull. However that didn’t final lengthy.
It was definitely a life lesson. On his first day, Iommi sat down within the studio canteen to eat lunch with vocalist, flautist and band boss Ian Anderson, solely to be advised by his bandmates that he’d damaged protocol and to take a seat with them as an alternative. Iommi stayed lengthy sufficient to look with Tull within the Rolling Stones’ Rock And Roll Circus film earlier than leaving.
“It simply wasn’t for me,” he says. Though he discovered a worthwhile lesson. “Ian had us rehearsing at 9 within the morning, and god assist us if we had been late. I don’t assume any of us in Earth had been even awake at 9 within the morning, however I realised that’s what we wanted to do.”
Earth’s 4 dysfunctional musketeers reunited, modified their identify to Black Sabbath and began to rehearse extra. “Tony was undoubtedly the alpha male,” recalled Geezer Butler.
As we speak, a 120-foot Sabbath mural and a mechanical bull named Ozzy greet guests to Birmingham’s New Road Station, and a stainless-steel bench on the town’s Broad Road bears stony-faced photographs of all of them. The band got the Freedom Of The Metropolis award in 2025, and Iommi the Lord Mayor’s award earlier this yr. “Black Sabbath has turn out to be Birmingham,” he says.
Again in 1969, nonetheless, the town didn’t wish to know them. “We couldn’t get arrested,” remembers Iommi. “Nicely, we might… however not in the best way we wished. There was nowhere for us to play – perhaps the occasional blues membership. However what we had been doing was so totally different to pop or soul or what you heard in golf equipment. So we ended up going to Europe and making an attempt to get gigs there.”
In August 1969, Black Sabbath started a residency at Hamburg’s Star Membership, the place The Beatles had served their apprenticeship. “The primary time we performed, there have been half a dozen folks in, however by the top of the run it was offered out,” Iommi remembers. “It was all phrase of mouth, and we constructed a repute with pockets of individuals all over the place.”
The critics had been hardly ever on facet, although. “Cliché-ridden… a conglomerate of occult hype,” carped Rolling Stone’s evaluate of Sabbath’s self-titled 1970 debut album. “Oh god, we had all the things towards us,” Iommi sighs. “We acquired pounded by the press.”
This hostility fuelled Iommi’s dedication and solid Black Sabbath as perennial outsiders. However there have been sufficient “pockets of individuals” to place the album within the High 10 within the UK and elsewhere in Europe.
Iommi’s guitar enjoying was the cornerstone of Black Sabbath, and continues to be the dominant pressure on From The Darkish. He’s at all times used lighter-gauge strings as they had been simpler on his broken fingers, however compensated by cranking up the distortion and quantity. He additionally deployed the ‘satan’s interval’ tritone on some songs. Recognized traditionally because the ‘diabolus in musica’, it’s that tense, ominous interval that made songs comparable to the primary album’s title monitor and N.I.B. sound positively evil.
The title monitor of Sabbath’s second album, 1970’s Paranoid, propelled by one of the crucial well-known riffs in fashionable music, gave them a UK No.6 hit. “All of it took off after Paranoid, and it didn’t matter that folks knocked us,” says Iommi. “After which America stepped in.”
Black Sabbath had been 4 twenty-somethings from post-war, working-class England desperate to discover all the things the so-called Land Of The Free needed to supply. ‘Smoking and tripping is all that you simply do,’ Ozzy sang on Fairies Put on Boots. However within the States, dope and LSD took a again seat to cocaine, the drug du jour in showbiz circles. “America modified us,” says Iommi.
The making of Sabbath’s fourth album, 1972’s Vol. 4, supposedly racked up a £55,000 coke invoice. The wheels began to return off quickly after, when Iommi collapsed with exhaustion on the Hollywood Bowl. Docs prescribed Valium and advised him to go residence. Sabbath returned to Birmingham like wounded troopers: Invoice Ward had contracted hepatitis, and Geezer Butler had been misdiagnosed with Vietnamese syphilis, which turned out to be kidney stones. Extremely, Ozzy was unscathed.
Regrettably, what occurred in America didn’t keep in America. In November 1973, Iommi married his first spouse, Susan. Led Zeppelin’s drummer John Bonham was his greatest man, and organized a stag evening so riotous the groom puzzled if both of them would make it to the marriage. On the day, Susan’s mom requested Tony why his mates saved slipping out of the church each couple of minutes. “They had been around the again sniffing and snorting,” he says, laughing.
Drug habits, ruined marriages, unimaginable wealth and subsequent monetary break all grew to become a part of Black Sabbath’s chaotic existence. As we speak, Iommi recounts these struggle tales with a understanding grin and a elevate of the eyebrows. The nice outdated unhealthy outdated days are lengthy behind him.
Iommi’s buddy Sir Brian Could not too long ago visited Tony’s studio, and performed on the brand new album’s Demise Watch. “I’d already executed a solo, however I took mine off,” Iommi says. “Earlier than then, I acquired the CDs out with the riffs on – 5 hundred, 600 riffs. Brian couldn’t imagine what number of I had.”
It was a distinct story when Iommi skilled author’s block making 1973’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, although. He ultimately discovered his inspiration, and Sabbath’s fifth LP included pianos, harpsichords, an orchestra, and Tony enjoying bagpipes. This catholic strategy continued on 1975’s Sabotage, which featured the English Chamber Choir. “There’s a little bit of choir on this new album too, like on Sabotage,” he says. “I’ve at all times appreciated to experiment.”
Has he ever written something and thought it was too experimental for a Sabbath or Tony Iommi album?
“Most likely, if it was a bit too light-weight. However then Sabbath used to get criticised for the acoustic stuff we did. I wrote a few acoustic issues for this album, however we didn’t have room for them. It’s odd. I find yourself writing issues like Fluff [Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’s piano and acoustic guitar interlude] on a regular basis, however I don’t like enjoying acoustic. I discover it too fiddly with my fingers.”
On cue, Iommi picks up a worn-looking Golden Virginia tobacco tin from the facet of the studio console, and divulges his assortment of thimbles. Some look model new, others like he used them on the Hollywood Bowl in 1972. There’s numerous historical past in that field.
There’s a music on From The Darkish known as Stormwatcher, wherein Jørn Lande sings: ‘My ship is loaded with darkness, the years of our world in demise.’ It’s the type of lyric one might think about Ozzy’s Sabbath substitute, Ronnie James Dio, belting out on 1980’s Heaven And Hell. As profitable because it was, Dio-era Sabbath lasted solely three years, and Ozzy re-emerged as a solo star simply as Sabbath’s star started to wane.
Iommi remembers Kiss’s producer Bob Ezrin overseeing auditions for Dio’s substitute. “In any other case, me and Geezer would have been sitting there like a few spare dinners.”
Apparently, future celebrity balladeer Michael Bolton made it by way of the primary spherical with sterling renditions of Battle Pigs and Neon Knights, however went no additional. “Now Michael denies he ever auditioned for Sabbath, however I nonetheless have the tape right here someplace.” As an alternative, Sabbath introduced in ex-Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan for 1983’s Born Once more. “We had numerous enjoyable with Ian. However that line-up had a brief shelf life.”
The remainder of the 80s weren’t good for Sabbath. On 1986’s Seventh Star, even Butler was gone, leaving Iommi the final man standing. He’d wished the album to be a solo undertaking, however bowed to report firm strain, employed one other member of the ‘Midlands mafia’, ex-Purple bassist/ vocalist Glenn Hughes, and known as it Black Sabbath.
“In hindsight we should always have modified the identify,” Iommi permits, “however the identify had weight.”
After that Iommi spent the subsequent 10 years overseeing a dizzying variety of line-up modifications. “Geezer’s been out and in I don’t know what number of occasions. [Drummer] Vinny Appice’s been out and in, [bassist] Neil Murray’s been out and in, and [vocalist] Tony Martin…” He pauses. “Oh, it’s been a proper outdated recreation.”
In his autobiography, Iron Man: My Journey Via Heaven And Hell With Black Sabbath, Iommi admitted to having little in widespread with a few of his youthful bandmates, and resenting them saying: “I’m in Black Sabbath” once they hadn’t executed any of the groundwork. He was additionally sick of refereeing disputes between band members.
When Dio returned for 1992’s Dehumanizer, his former Rainbow bandmate Cozy Powell was nonetheless Sabbath’s drummer.
“Cozy and Ronnie didn’t see eye to eye,” Iommi says. “I used to drive to rehearsals with Cozy, and he’d be going: ‘If that little c**t says something to me I’m going to smash him within the face.’ I’d assume: ‘Oh god, don’t break it,’ and naturally Ronnie would say one thing.”
It took summer season 1997’s long-awaited reunion with Ozzy and Invoice Ward for the nice ship Black Sabbath to proper itself. Occasions had modified, although. Ozzy’s solo success, later transition right into a actuality TV star, and his spouse/supervisor Sharon’s iron grip shifted the steadiness of energy inside the group, whereas ailing well being and enterprise disputes sidelined Ward. Nonetheless, the chemistry was there, and three quarters of the basic Sabbath was higher than one quarter.
Iommi was additionally reminded of his legacy when Sabbath joined the Ozzfest touring charabanc, and he heard his riffs repurposed by youthful acts on the invoice. “I believed it was nice, and people bands admit they had been influenced by us. Individuals like Metallica and Dave Grohl have at all times boosted us up.”
In 2000, Iommi invited Grohl, Ozzy and Billy Corgan, amongst others, to sing on his self-titled solo album. “I wished Chris Cornell too, however there was a problem with administration,” he remembers. “It was additionally a bit embarrassing as a result of Eminem was going to do a monitor, and I stated: ‘Who’s Eminem?’” Iommi says, with one other elevate of the eyebrows. “Similar with Child Rock…”
Iommi has earlier type, although, having had Madonna ejected from Black Sabbath’s Dwell Help rehearsals. “I didn’t recognise her,” he protests. “It was a giant room, it was darkish and it was meant to be non-public. Afterwards, my guitar tech stated: ‘You do know who that was?’ Oh, bloody hell…”
Iommi introduced in Glenn Hughes to sing on 2005’s Fused. However that had its challenges. “Glenn’s one of many few singers of his age that may nonetheless hit the notes,” he says. “However I’m amazed he can after what he put himself by way of.” Former addict Hughes has been sober for many years, but it surely solely took successful of caffeine to set him off.
“It was like he’d executed a line of coke,” Iommi says, laughing. “Glenn’s spouse rang me and stated: ‘You didn’t give him a cup of espresso did you?’ We didn’t know he wasn’t presupposed to have espresso. We made that album at Rockfield [Studios, in Monmouth], and I ended up driving residence to Birmingham each evening, as a result of as soon as Glenn began speaking he wouldn’t cease.”
In December 2011, Iommi skilled one other life-changing second when he was identified with lymphoma, a sort of blood most cancers. He was about to begin work on 13.
“It was a giant shock,” he says softly. “I didn’t assume I used to be going to make it by way of the album. I believed that was it.”
Sabbath’s tour dates had been rearranged so he might return to the UK each few weeks for remedy. “I have a look at life in a different way now,” he provides. “It modifications you.”
In 2016, together with his most cancers in remission, Black Sabbath bowed out with The Finish tour. Lately Iommi has raised greater than £50,000 for the College Hospitals Birmingham Charity by raffling guitars. “It’s good to present one thing again, making an attempt to make the rooms nicer for most cancers sufferers,” he says. “As a result of they’re sitting there for hours having chemotherapy and it’s boring.”
So far as Iommi was involved, Black Sabbath ended with that farewell tour. Others disagreed. Within the early 2020s, Andrew Watt, now Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones’ go-to producer, contacted him about making a Sabbath album with the unique lineup (Rage Towards The Machine’s drummer Brad Wilk performed on 13 after Ward objected to what he known as “an un-signable contract”).
“I’d met Andrew Watt when he was producing Ozzy,” Iommi remembers. “He was very eager and a bit too excited. He additionally didn’t know what it was like working with the unique Sabbath, working with Invoice,” he provides drolly. “Additionally, we’d executed 13, and I didn’t like the thought of: ‘Now right here’s one other album.’”
Iommi was equally doubtful when Sabbath had been requested to reunite for final yr’s Again To The Starting live performance at Villa Park. Metallica, Pantera, Weapons N’ Roses and Software had been amongst these lining as much as play a tribute to Black Sabbath, with proceeds going to a number of charities.
“I stated to Ozzy: ‘I don’t assume we should always do it.’ I stated: ‘We should always simply let the opposite bands play our stuff, and us come out on the finish and say thanks. But it surely was for charitable trigger, and ultimately we stated okay.”
Iommi had final seen Ozzy when the 2 of them carried out Paranoid on the closing ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Video games. The singer had already been identified with Parkinson’s illness, and his situation had worsened.
“I hadn’t seen Ozzy for a bit, and it was troublesome seeing him like that,” Iommi remembers. “Fucking hell…” His voice tails off.
Iommi didn’t need Ozzy to play a solo set earlier than Sabbath’s closing efficiency both. “As a result of I used to be involved he was going to blow himself out, and by the point we got here on he’d be struggling.”
Ozzy ignored misgivings, and even confirmed up when the opposite three had been rehearsing. “We would have liked to rehearse with Invoice, as a result of it had been twenty years and he couldn’t bear in mind find out how to play a few of his stuff. We wished to do the music Black Sabbath on the evening but it surely was too troublesome for him. However Ozzy would arrive with this gang of individuals carrying him up and down. We’d say: ‘Oz, you don’t should be right here right now, go residence.’ I used to be involved about his voice. However he wished to be there. There was no stopping him.”
Did Sabbath fall again into their outdated methods as quickly because the 4 of them had been in a room collectively?
“You imply moaning?” Iommi deadpans. “Oh sure. And taking the piss. Invoice bore the brunt of it even in any case these years.”
On the evening, July 5, 2026, Ozzy carried out a solo set and struggled to stay seated – for his personal security – on his customised throne. He then joined the remainder of Black Sabbath for a victory lap of Battle Pigs, N.I.B., Iron Man and Paranoid. Nonetheless on the throne, like a heavy metallic king at his coronation, he went out with a smile on his face and, ever the showman, nonetheless making an attempt to face up.
“The adrenaline carried Ozzy by way of,” says Iommi. “And I’m so glad we did it. However in fact we didn’t count on him to go so quickly.”
Ozzy died 17 days after the present and, on the time of this interview, has been gone for a yr. “Are you able to imagine it? A yr?” Iommi sighs. “But it surely was so good that we acquired to try this one very last thing collectively – and for trigger.”
For all of the doom and pestilence on his new album, Iommi appears at peace with the world. He’s been married to his fourth spouse, Maria, since 2005, and credit her and his household for serving to him “come by way of the opposite facet”.
Earlier this yr the couple returned from vacation to seek out what Iommi presumed was a rushing ticket. “It appeared official,” he says. The truth is it was a letter from the federal government telling him he’d been awarded an MBE (Member Of The British Empire) for companies to music. “I’ll be going as much as Buckingham Palace sooner or later, however I don’t know when.”
MBEs, Lord Mayor Awards, charity raffles, his personal vary of fragrances… Moreover his new report, these are the accolades and offbeat initiatives Iommi enjoys. “I’ve simply executed a monitor with [veteran Star Trek actor turned singer] William Shatner,” he divulges, as we stand up to depart.
What, one wonders, would 78-year-old Tony Iommi say to his 17-year-old self about to embark on a musical profession? “Break all of the limitations and do what you imagine in,” he replies firmly. “Every thing is a check. Being advised I wasn’t going to play guitar once more was the primary check; Sabbath being rejected was the subsequent. Keep it up and carry on.”
Together with his phrases of empowerment ringing in our ears, we swap the studio’s darkness for blazing sunshine. By the studio door stands Tony Iommi’s bin. Disappointingly, there isn’t a dismembered arm poking out from underneath the lid.
From The Darkish is out now by way of BMG.
