Före detta trummis i Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell och nuvarande Kill Devil Hill Vinny Apice säger att det kommer bli svårt att tacka nej om han får förfrågan om att spela med Black Sabbath igen då Bill Ward hoppat av på grund av ett ”orättvist” kontrakt.
Vinny säger, ”Everybody goes: Well, If you did get asked, would you do it? And how could you turn it down? It’s part of rock history. It’s probably the last album they’ll ever make, so who wouldn’t want to do it? But I wouldn’t want to stop my [new] band [Kill Devil Hill] in its tracks. What am I gonna do, stop this and do that? I would say, if it was to happen, it would have to be both things, you know. With my band, maybe we can be on some of the dates and whatever… But it’s not gonna happen anyway, because they’re moving on. I don’t know what’s going on, but obviously they’re moving on, so … And I got this and I’m stoked, you know. This is my dream right here.”
Kill Devil Hill består av Appice, Rex Brown (Pantera, Down) på bas, Mark Zavon (Ratt, W.A.S.p, 40 Cycle Hum) på gitarr och Jason ”Dewey” Bragg (Pissing Razors) på sång. Debutalbumet släpps den 22 maj via SPV/Steamhammer.
Vinny fortsätter, ”I always dreamed I would have my own band, and I did have bands in Brooklyn where I grew up but my dream was to make it in the business with my own band. And then I had a band called Axis and that was becoming a dream but we couldn’t do it. It was hard. And I had gotten in Rick Derringer’s band, then we broke up and I went back to Axis and try to make it happen, then I got a call from Black Sabbath, so that interrupted that. And then Black Sabbath lasted, then Ronnie [Dio] wanted to do a new band so, of course, I’m gonna go with Ronnie. So I always ended up playing with other legendary people, and never had the chance to do my own band. I did it a couple times with World War III and a band called 3 Legged Dogg, but it just wasn’t right at the time. It just fell apart. And then this thing, I still dream about having my own band, you know. And a great band, musically. And this [Kill Devil Hill] is more than what I expected. It’s perfect.”
Det är oklart om Ward kommer tillbaka till Black Sabbath, under tiden spelar övriga bandmedlemmar in deras första album tillsammans på 33 år. Sharon säger om inspelningen, ”It’s going good. They’re doing really well in the studio. Gosh, they must’ve written 15 new songs already and it’s going great.”
Hon förnekar även att det är hon som är skälet till Ward’s avhopp, ”Everybody’s got their own manager, so we have an independent group of people that have come in to manage the project, and I don’t, and I get the blame because Bill doesn’t want to play with the band; he doesn’t like his deal and I get the blame. It’s like, ’All right, I’m a big girl, I can take it.'”
