Heavy Song of the Week: Tony Iommi Delivers Mournful Thunder with “Over the Violent Sun”

Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, we highlight the new single “Over the Violent Sun” from Tony Iommi. We try not to overly stack Heavy Song of the Week winners from the same album. The idea is simple: This forum acts not just as a compendium of the week’s best heavy tracks but also as a platform to highlight as much of that wide musical world which seems to effortlessly to remain a bounty. Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi is different though. He is the lord of heavy metal, the crafter of the riffs that forged the genre proper. The loss of Ozzy last year taught us, if anything, that we must honor these figures while they still live, especially when they still fire at the caliber presented on “Over the Violent Sun,” the opening track from Iommi’s new solo album From the Dark. “Over the Violent Sun,” one of From the Dark‘s best cuts, sets the stage for the album to come by indulging into the gothic take on US power metal to which Iommi was so foundational. That form of power metal fused doom metal pacing and atmospherics with the epic majesty of traditional heavy met...