NEWS

Messages from Tony ...

June 5th, 2008

Mario Parga & Tony Martin - 'Spirit of Night'

The single's release date is June 27, an audio sample will be available soon at www.MarioParga.com.

A video for the song is going to be filmed by Los Angeles based music video director Karpis Maksudian. The video will feature Mario and Tony and will be shot on location in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles and on Malibu Beach. The video shoot is scheduled for early August.

Savage Paradise

Mario's new band project Savage Paradise featuring Tony Martin - vocals (Black Sabbath/Tony Martin), Kevin Valentine - drums (Cinderella/Kiss) and Tim Luce - bass (Alcatrazz) will start work on their first album during the early Fall. The official website www.savage-paradise.com is currently being built and will be available soon. The band is looking for a keyboard player to complete the lineup, auditions will be held in Los Angeles later in the year. For full information please click here.

May 11th, 2005

SCREAM is still not available, so please be patient.

Meanwhile Tony has rehearsed with his own band and they are going to play at a festival in Paliano, Italy, on May 14th.

January 30th, 2005

Still no new information on the release date of SCREAM.

Meanwhile I've uploaded another track from "Back where I belong" for you - "India" You can download it here

January 5th, 2005

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you all had a great Christmas and managed to get safely into 2005!

I just talked to Tony and he's still pretty busy working on "SCREAM". You still need to be patient, but I could listen to a song called "Field of lies" and it sounds more than promising! So it will definitely be worth the wait! Those of you who are interested can still send in an "email" with the reference SCREAM - you will be notified when I get the details on its release.

December 22nd, 2004

Thanks a lot for all your emails regarding the first release of SCREAM. There are still NO updates on its release date etc - so you have to be patient.

Please note that there will be no individual answers to your emails until I get detailed information on how to get the album from Tony. So you don't have to send more than one email. Thanks.

December 5th, 2004

All of you who are interested in getting a copy of the first release of SCREAM - just send an "email" with the reference SCREAM and you'll be notified when I have more details on the album! Any questions you might have will be answered in due time!

November 22nd, 2004

Just got the dates of the upcoming new tour of "WHOLE LOTTA METAL". Make sure you don't miss the guys this time!

October 18th, 2004

Tony's been working on his solo album. It sounds very promising and should be available soon. Will keep you posted on this.

And he will do a couple of more shows with the Twin Dragons. Check out the tour dates here

Cage / Cage II lyrics are available now. (Thanks to Adam)

Check out a new interview with Tony here

September 23rd, 2004

Tony will be doing a few more shows with Twin Dragons in October. And there is good news for those of you who have missed Whole Lotta Metal on tour this year. A new tour in 2005 is being planned at the moment, but no dates are available yet. Will keep you posted when I get more information.

July 24th, 2004

Tony is currently doing some more festivals with Twin Dragons. Check out the tour schedule to see if he's going to play somewhere near you! I've uploaded a few more pics from WLM and M3. Hope you like them!

July 15th, 2004

New picture from Tony's gig with M3 in Warsaw uploaded - more pictures to follow soon.

June 24th, 2004

Tony is doing some guest appearances with a band called Twin Dragons at two festivals in Italy. Check out the tour dates section here

April 27th, 2004

Friends

I've added a link to Alvin Lee's site. He's on tour in the UK and It looks like bein a great tour. We worked together about 10 years ago and I was thrilled to have had the opportunity. Check out his site and go see the man if you can. I'm gonna try gettin to Leicester de Montford Hall, If I get the chance I'll go to more!!!

TM

April 23rd, 2004

As already announced a few days back, Tony's been fired from M3. You can read his personal statement HERE

April 19th, 2004

News bulletin - Tony has been fired from M3 - a statement from Tony will be published here soon. So watch this space.

Tony will sing on the new Phenomena album which will be released later this year. So far he's recorded 3 songs, but the final track list is yet to be decided on.

The first rehearsal with A Whole Lotta Metal took place last Friday and it went very well. Tony will be singing Headless Cross, songs from Deep Purple Stuff, UFO and even a Whitesnake song. So check the guys on a stage near you!

March 4th, 2004

Check out the music section. Due to great public demand the first three songs are available for download again. And don't worry if you have missed any of the other songs - they will be available again soon ... So keep coming back!

February 14th, 2004

In May 2004 Tony will be on tour with "A Whole Lotta Metal" as one of three singers. It's a show about rock music of the 70's and 80's covering bands like Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Judas Priest etc. Tony will be doing joint and individual parts in the show. More dates could be added - will keep you posted on that. He will be singing "Headless Cross", "Breakin the law", "Fool for your Lovin", "Stormbringer", "Paranoid, and a few more.

Apart from that, Tony is working on some new solo stuff and will hopefully have a new CD together soon. It's all part of a trilogy set called "Clean, Mean Scream". Currently he's recording songs for "Scream". As the title reveals it covers the "heavy" side of Tony Martin (from Sabbath sounding stuff to modern grinding gutsy stuff!).

January 20th, 2004

A very HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone out there. Hopefully you all really had a very good start.

As some sort of new year's treat I have uploaded the final songs of "Back where I belong". Enjoy them.

December 26th, 2003

I wish you all a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

The M3 gig in Aschaffenburg turned out to be absolutely great. I've uploaded some photos in the "Pictures" section. Hope you like them.

Check out Tony's XMAS Message ...

M3 will be tour in Germany in December. The dates in Aschaffenburg and Bonn are confirmed, so check them out.

I have uploaded some pictures from the Forbidden Press Tour in 1995, more will follow during the next couple of days - PROMISED!

Sorry to have kept you waiting for quite a long time. Hopefully Tony's messages will explain a few things. The next three tracks from "Back where I belong" are available for download now. So check out the sounds page.

Have also added a new guestbook. Unfortunately the old provider changed the free nature of the service without prior notice, so only the first page would be displayed. I really hope you do all come back and sign the new guestbook again, for I really appreciated every single entry!!! What a shame I couldn't save those messages!

May 11th, 2003

Have just updated the pictures section with some photos from the M3 gig in Diest, Belgium.

May 9th, 2003

The next 3 songs from Tony's solo album "Back where I belong" are available for download!!! Also check out the pictures section!!!

April 27th, 2003

I have added a guestbook, so you can leave your comments and ideas for everyone to read ...

April 23rd, 2003

Just corrected some of the tour dates of M3. Most of them are still "to be confirmed".

April 22nd, 2003

The new Empire album "Trading Souls" is available now!

April 15th, 2003

Just got some tour dates from Tony. Unfortunately just dates, not venues. Will add those as soon as I get them.

Apart from this I have added a few pics to the pictures section. These are absolutely rare shots of Tony and should have seen the light of day in the new Sabbath History by Garry Sharpe-Young, but Tony couldn't find them right in time for the print - so here they are for you. (Check out the pictures section) The book itself can be recommended for anyone interested in the behind the scenes stories of the band.

March 27th, 2003

Tony Martin to join Whitesnake? Not quite! But he's about to go on tour with the "old" Whitesnake line-up: Bernie Marsden, Neil Murray and Micky Moody. Watch this space for "M3" tour dates!

January 2003

Tony is currently helping a guy called Garry Sharpe-Young to put a book together about the Sabbath years. It is supposed to include a good part of the years that he was in the band, it remains to be seen how much of it will be actually included but he's given him a lot of info about my time with the band and thoughts and feelings about being in Black Sabbath.

December 2002

Bobby Rondinelli has asked Tony to tour with the new Rondinelli album. The record company is currently considering how best to put this tour together.

October 2002

During his visit in Germany, Tony came to the office and played us some of his new material that he wants to work with in the near future. There is a huge range from modern to Black Sabbath type riffs. We are looking forward to hearing the final result.

September 29th, 2002

Tony flew to Germany to work with Rolf Munkes on the Empire project. It's expected to have 10 songs and to be released in March 2003.

September 20th, 2002

Tony Martin flew off to Italy to work with Aldo Guintini's new album - most likely to be called Giuntini III. They have recorded 12 songs but as of yet there is no release date.

May 22nd, 2002

CAGE II is released in Europe and Japan.

January 2002

Tony went to New York to work on Bobby Rondinell's solo album. Although he didn't write any of the tracks, he sang on all of them. The album is scheduled for release in October 2002.

This was a mixed time for Tony since he was going through a divorce, but found working with Bobby one of the most memorable projects to have worked on, during which he was able to visit the Twin Towers site "Ground Zero" to pay his respects.

August 2001

Tony went to Dario Mollo's studio Damage Inc. in Italy to finish recording THE CAGE II. Most of the vocals were recorded in his home studio.