Product Description
Brand New ~ Sealed! Quality 180 Gram Vinyl Deluxe Expanded Edition With Original Artwork On Gatefold Cover. A Hard Rock Masterpiece, The Fantastic First Album With Ronnie James Dio Singing For Black Sabbath! The Second LP Features Rarities & Live Tracks From 1980 (When Bill Ward Was Still In The Band).
One Of The BEST Heavy Rock Albums Of All Time, ‘Heaven And Hell’ Is Easily The Best Black Sabbath LP After The Ozzy Years.
Ronnie James Dio – Vocals
Tony Iommi – Guitars
Geezer Butler – Bass
Bill Ward – Drums
Side 1:
Neon Knights
Children Of The Sea
Lady Evil
Heaven And Hell
Side 2:
Wishing Well
Die Young
Walk Away
Lonely Is The Word
Bonus Tracks
Side 3:
Children Of The Sea (Live 1980: B-Side Of Neon Knights)
Heaven And Hell (Live 1980: 7″ Edit, B-Side Of Die Young)
Lady Evil (Mono 7″ Edit)
Neon Knights (Live At Hartford Civic Center, CT, U.S.A., 10 August 1980)
Side 4 ~ Live At Hartford Civic Center, CT, U.S.A., 10 August 1980:
Children Of The Sea
Heaven And Hell
Die Young
Geoff –
One of the greatest hard rock albums of all time! \m/ Originally released in April 1980, ‘Heaven and Hell’ was the first album to be released by the new Black Sabbath lineup of Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. It remains one of the most important and influential of Black Sabbath’s releases. After giving Ozzy the boot in late 1979, the remainder of Black Sabbath recruited the ex-Elf / Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow singer ~ which proved to be a major shot in the arm for the group. Multi-octave voiced Dio put his heart and soul into the project. The LP features the heavy epic “Children of the Sea”, the super-energised opener, “Neon Knights”, and the fist-pumping, metal anthem “Die Young”. The centrepiece of ‘Heaven and Hell’ is the glorious title track ~ spine-tingling stuff! Another highlight is the highly melodic six-minute closing cut, “Lonely is the Word” which features top class, searing guitar work from Tony Iommi. The superb singing from Ronnie, complimented by the band’s revitalised playing on rock solid, well written material makes ‘Heaven and Hell’ easily the best post-Ozzy Black Sabbath release and one of the greatest hard rock albums of all time! m/