Iron Man

Hailing from Gaithersburg, Maryland, Iron Man originated as a Black Sabbath cover outfit before shifting focus to original songs shaped by the foundational doom tones of heavy metal’s earliest icons. Guitarist Alfred Morris III guided the group from the outset, converting a series of recordings begun in 1987 into a contract with Hellhound Records that yielded the 1993 debut album Black Night. That release featured Morris alongside vocalist Rob Levey, drummer Ron Kalimon, and bassist Larry Brown, yet only Brown stayed on for the follow-up The Passage, which appeared the next year and brought in vocalist Dan Michalak plus drummer Gary Isom. Neither effort generated significant attention inside the underground doom community, leaving the band largely overlooked both before and after the eventual arrival of its third album, Generation Void, in 1999.