Martin recently offered the following update on the new album to Black-Sabbath.com, explaining he played most of the instruments himself:

\"Actually, I play a lot of stuff myself, I play the bass on everything, I play some guitar but my son Joe plays most of it, I play violin, Geoff plays most of the keyboards although I had a part played by John Taylor, who is a great player but unknown to most. I also kept a guitar solo part played by Pedro Howse, who is Geezer Butler\'s [Sabbath bassist] .... nephew I think? He helped with \'Bitter Sweet\'. (...) Mostly that\'s it, I didn\'t really intend on doing most of it myself but as I was writing it and I needed a part playing I just picked up the intrument I wanted and did it, then the other guys went over what I had done in parts to make it better. Apart from the drums!\"

The drums were something different. Obviously, Cozy Powell, who died on April 5, 1998, isn\'t around to re-play stuff so Martin had to use the computer to make that work. Comments Tony Martin:

\"The original drum track was not bad but I needed to get a chorus into a different place in one part and the cymbles were a little distorted in places so I had to repeat parts of the drum track to get what the song needed. It took a long time to acheive, mostly because it was important to keep the integrity of the drum track, and also his name. But apart from that! I also had to try and match the Cozy track to the rest of the album, in fact I neded up matching the album to Cozy\'s track, \'Raising Hell\' became the benchmark for the rest of the songs. So it took a long time to finish.\"

According to Martin there are another 22 Cozy tracks he could work with.

The singer will release his second solo effort on November 18 via MTM Music.

Tony Martin\'s touring band will include Danny Needham on drums. They start a European trek in November.