Geezer Butler Says Using A.I. Singer Helps Him with Songwriting

Okay. If this were to be any other musician I’d probably be like what the actual fuck, but in this case, maybe it’s kind of alright? After all, A.I. is a tool and tools are meant to be utilized, are they not? Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler sure does think so, since he’s apparently been using A.I. in a way that we would DEFINITELY roust other people for—songwriting.

Butler spoke on how he’s made use of artificial intelligence when he was a guest at the 2025 Steel City Con, which took place from December 5-7, 2025 in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. When speaking on whether or not he’s got more solo stuff in the works, he said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net):

“Oh, gosh. I’ve got tons of stuff. Since we finished the last Sabbath show [at ‘Back To The Beginning’ in July 2025], I’ve just been going through all the stuff that I’ve written since the ’80s onwards and updating everything. And what held me back before, I didn’t have a singer when I’m at home, but A.I. [artificial intelligence] came along. [Laughs] So all my songs now, I’ve updated them all and I’m using an A.I. singer to bring all the lyrics out. So now I can take it to singers that I’m gonna be working with and go, ‘This is what I want on the album,’ so they’ve got a better idea. Before I was just, like, playing them a bass riff or something, going, ‘Can you sing to this?’ And they’d be going, ‘Yeah.’ [Laughs] But it’s so much better now, ’cause you can sit in your studio and do everything on A.I. and then take it to proper musicians and let them take over. It’s really helped me. A lot of people think it’s cheating.”

Let’s be honest Geezer—it is cheating. But sometimes, that’s just what you gotta do. When he elaborated more on what his specific songwriting process is, he said:

“With Sabbath — Sabbath, we’d sit down in a room together and just jam and jam and jam until somebody came up with something that we could work with. Once we had a good riff to write to, we’d finish the music part of it. Ozzy would sing his vocal line, then I’d write the lyrics. So it mainly came from jamming.”

You can’t really jam with a machine, so let’s just hope that whatever Geezer and his A.I. confidant have been writing actually sounds good.

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