“Sadly Heaven & Hell were unable to
perform at The Metalway Festival in Zaragoza
on Sunday due to acute back problems
suffered by Tony which left him in
considerable pain and unable to stand.
Ronnie, Geezer and Vinny spoke to the
audience to explain the situation. The band
is extremely disappointed that the show
couldn’t take place and hope to make it up
to the ticket holders when they resume
touring in Europe.“
“Tony would like to personally apologize
everyone who came to see the band, had there
been anyway to perform he would have done
so.”
21st May 2009
Heaven
and Hell More European Dates Added!
May 30 Russia, Moscow B-1
May 31 Russia, Moscow B-1
June 1 Russia, St. Petersburg New Arena
June 2 Finland, Helsinki Icehall
June 4 Norway, Oslo Spektrum
June 6 Sweden Sweden Rock Festival,
Solvesborg
June 8 Germany, Giessen Hessenhallen
June 9 Germany, Berlin Zitadelle
June 10 Germany, Bamburg Jakoarena
June 13 Holland Waldrock Festival Bergum
June 14 Germany, Karlsruhe Europahalle
June 16 Germany, Bonn Museumsplatz
June 17 Switzerland, Zurich Volkshaus
June 19 France, Clisson Hellfest
June 21 Spain, Zaragoza Metalway Festival
June 23 France, Paris Le Casino de Paris
June 26 Belgium Graspop Festival, Dessel
June 27 Italy, Milan Gods Of Metal
July 25 Finland, Oulu Q Stock Festival,
July 27 Greece, Athens Olympic Fencing Hall
July 30 Germany, Wacken Open Air, 20th
Anniversary
Aug 1 England, Knebworth Sonisphere
15th May 2009
Engl Powerball
amplifiers
For those of
you interested in the technical side of
things, Tony is currently testing the latest
Engl Powerball amplifiers on tour in South
America, stay tuned for further updates.
More information on these amps is available
at -
www.engl-amps.com
14th May 2009
HEAVEN & HELL
TAKE THE DEVIL ON THE ROAD
Ronnie James
Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny
Appice
Schedule North American Tour Dates For
August
Coheed And Cambria To Be Featured As Support
For Month Long Trek
Tickets For Most Dates On Sale The Weekend
Of May 8
LOS ANGELES — Heaven & Hell, the quartet of
Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler,
and Vinny Appice, will bring their wicked
world tour to North America for a select
number of shows this August. The band will
start their summer headlining music
festivals across Europe before bringing
their macabre stage show of metal classics
to North America starting on August 7 in
Vancouver. Tickets for most shows go on sale
the weekend of May 8. There will also be a
presale for all shows, except Baltimore,
beginning May 6 at 10AM local time. Coheed
And Cambria will provide support on all
shows except the Seattle date on August 8,
which will feature Neurosis in the
supporting slot.
On April 28, Heaven & Hell released their
first album in 17 years THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
and the highly anticipated set did not
disappoint. Revolver Magazine declared it
“an album of ageless metal anthems” and The
Associated Press praised its “bone-crunching
riffs and power chords that can loosen the
phlegm in your chest.” The band plans to mix
in several tracks from THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
into their set of Dio-era Black Sabbath
classics.
Heaven & Hell began writing for THE DEVIL
YOU KNOW last year, first in England at
Iommi’s home studio and later in Los Angeles
at Dio’s studio. “The band had gotten too
good to just walk away,” Dio says. “We
wanted to show people that we were still
capable of giving them new music that
measured up to what we’d done in the past.”
With that goal in mind, the band hit the
Rockfield Studios in Wales last winter and
the result is the 10-song epic THE DEVIL YOU
KNOW.
Coheed And Cambria bring their unique blend
of prog and metal as the supporting act on
the tour. The band just released their
Neverender box set. The 4-CD/5-DVD
collection chronicles a series of 2008 shows
where the band performed all four of their
albums in the same city on consecutive
nights.
HEAVEN & HELL TOUR DATES
All Dates Also Feature Coheed And Cambira
Unless Noted
AUGUST
7 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Arena, On Sale
5/9
8 Seattle, WA WaMu Theater*, On Sale 5/8
10 San Jose, CA Event Center Arena, On Sale
5/8
11 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theater, On Sale
5/9
12 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theater, On Sale 5/11
14 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion, On Sale
5/9
15 Denver, CO Red Rocks, On Sale 5/9
18 Cincinnati, OH PNC Pavilion, On Sale 5/8
19 Chicago, IL Charter One Pavilion, On Sale
5/15
21 Detroit, MI Meadow Brook Pavilion, On
Sale 5/8
22 Cleveland, OH Nautica Pavilion, On Sale
5/8
23 Baltimore, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion,
On Sale 6/5
25 New York, NY WaMu Theater @ MSG, On Sale
5/8
27 Wallingford, CT Chevrolet Theatre, On
Sale 5/9
28 Boston, MA Bank Of America Pavilion, On
Sale 5/8
23rd April
2009
Heaven & Hell
In Store Signing!!
Heaven & Hell
will make a rare in-store appearance and
signing at Best Buy in San Bernadino on
Saturday, May 2. Ronnie James Dio, Tony
Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice will
all be on hand to celebrate the release of
their new album The Devil You Know, out
April 28 on Rhino. Best Buy stores will
offer an exclusive version of the album
featuring a bonus DVD with unreleased video
of the band recording the album including
studio performances, interviews, and other
behind-the-scenes content. Fans who buy The
Devil You Know at the San Bernadino Best Buy
beginning on April 28 will get a wristband
which will grant them access to get their
copy signed by the band. Fans can also get
wristbands for the event by purchasing the
album at Best Buy stores in Burbank, Rancho
Cucamonga and Riverside. The event takes
place Saturday, May 2 at 2:00 PM. Please
call the San Bernadino store for more
details at (909) 885-4049.
21st April
2009
“The Devil You
Know” Exclusive Versions
Heaven & Hell
is ramping up for the April 28 release of
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW with a vast array of
physical and digital retail exclusive
versions, listed below. The album will also
be released as double vinyl LP featuring a
laser etched design and exclusive poster on
May 12.
Best Buy
will offer an exclusive version featuring
a DVD with unreleased video of the band
recording the album including studio
performances, interviews, and other
behind-the-scenes content.
Wal Mart
will offer an exclusive alternate cover
that prominently features the traditional
Black Sabbath devil logo. When finalizing
the cover, the band narrowed it down to
their two favorites but had a difficult
time making a final decision. Now the
alternate cover will also be available as
a Wal Mart exclusive.
iTunes will
offer an exclusive version with previously
unreleased live recordings of “Die Young”
and “I” from the band’s 2007 European
tour.
Select
independent retail stores will offer
exclusive Heaven & Hell T-shirts and/or
copies of the album signed by the entire
band, while supplies last. See below for a
list of all participating stores and
contact them directly for more details.
Participating Independent Retail Stores
Cactus Music - Houston, TX
The Exchange – Cleveland, OH
Independent Records – Denver, CO
Looney Tunes - Long Island, NY
Newbury Comics – 28 total stores in
Boston, MA area
Record Theatre - Buffalo, NY
Record & Tape Traders - Washington D.C.
Rolling Stone – Chicago, IL
Silver Platters – Seattle, WA
The Omega Order – online only at
www.theomegaorder.com
Vintage Vinyl - Fords, NJ
Zias – Phoenix, AZ, Tucson, AZ & Las
Vegas, NV
17th April
2009
Heaven & Hell
album ‘The Devil You Know’ previews on Metal
Hammer from Monday
The new single "Bible Black" was
made available to download from all digital
retailers. Here are some buy links:
iTunes &
Amazon
In addition, a
limited edition 7" vinyl single of “Bible
Black” will be available exclusively for
this year’s Record Store Day on April 18 for
a suggested list price of $5.98. The
single’s B-side features a live version of
“Neon Knights” recorded at the band’s
heralded Radio City Music Hall performance
in 2007. The 7" is available only at
participating independent music retailers.
For a full list of participating stores,
visit
www.recordstoreday.com
Heaven &Hell have launched a Twitter profile
- sign up to follow them and get inside
information directly from the band at
www.twitter.com/hvnandhelllive
And to hear the new single "Bible Black" and
for the latest updates on Heaven & Hell
check out their MySpace page at
www.MySpace.com/heavenandhelllive
2nd April
2009
FRENCH
DATES ADDED!
Heaven and
Hell Announce South American and European
Tour Dates!!
May 5 Columbia, Bogota - Coliseo el Campin
May 7 Argentina, Buenos Aires, Luna Park
Tickets can be purchased on line at
www.ticketportal.com.ar or calling
+(54-11) 5-353-0606
May 8 Chile, Santiago, Movistar Arena
May 10 Brazil, Belo Horizonte, Chevrolet
Hall
May 13 Brazil, Brasilia, Ginadsio Nilson
Nelson
May 15 Brazil, Sao Paulo, Credicard Hall
May 16 Brazil, Sao Paulo, Credicard Hall
May 17 Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Citibank Hall
Rio
May 30 Russia, Moscow, B-1 -
Click to buy tickets
May 31 Russia, Moscow, B-1 -
Click to buy tickets
June 1 Russia, St. Petersburg, New Arena
June 2 Finland, Helsinki, Icehall
June 4 Norway, Oslo, Spektrum
June 6 Sweden, Solvesborg, Sweden Rock
Festival
June 8 Germany, Giessen, Hessenhallen
June 9 Germany, Berlin, Zitadelle
June 10 Germany, Bamburg, Jakoarena
June 13 Holland, Bergum, Waldrock Festival
June 14 Germany, Karlsruhe, Europahalle
June 16 Germany, Bonn, Museumplatz
June 17 Switzerland, Zurich, Volkshaus
June 19 France, Clisson, Hellfest
June 21 Spain, Zaragoza, Metalway Festival
June 23rd Le Casino de Paris – Paris, France
Ticket link
Phone numbers : France :
0892 392 192 International : +33 1 49 97 51
91
June 26 Belgium, Dessel, Graspop
June 27 Italy, Milan, Gods of Metal
July 25 Finland, Oulu – Q Stock Festival
July 27 Greece, Athens – Rocking Athens
Festival 2009, Olympic Fencing Hall
July 30 Germany, Wacken Open Air
27th March
2009
Pre-Order “The
Devil You Know” and Listen to the track
“Bible Black”
Roadrunner Records is honoured to
announce the worldwide signing (ex-North
America, Japan, & Asia) of the highly
respected, legendary group Heaven & Hell.
The label is proud to include Heaven & Hell
in their celebrated roster of bands at the
top of their game.
Heavy metal icons Ronnie James Dio, Tony
Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice are
set to release a brand new album - their
first under the moniker Heaven & Hell, with
Black Sabbath's last studio album having
been 17 YEARS AGO – on April 27. Titled The
Devil You Know, this is an event for every
classic rock and metal fan to get excited
about!
After finishing several heralded world tours
as Heaven & Hell last summer, the
influential band were tighter than ever
before, both musically and personally.
Agreeing that it would be a shame to stop
making music together at tour’s end, the
quartet began writing, first in England at
Iommi’s home studio and later in Los Angeles
at Dio’s studio. “The band had gotten too
good to just walk away,” Dio says. “We
wanted to show people that we were still
capable of giving them new music that
measured up to what we’d done in the past.”
With that goal in mind, the band once again
converged on Rockfield Studios in Wales last
winter, the same place they used 17 years
earlier to record their last album,
Dehumanizer. The result is the long awaited
new album The Devil You Know, featuring 10
soon-to-be-classic tracks from the Dio-fronted
version of Black Sabbath.
Bible Black, the epic first single, begins
with Iommi on acoustic guitar behind Dio’s
plaintive wail before the rhythm shifts to a
menacing stomp for the rest of this dark
tale about a book of sinister scriptures.
One of the first songs written for the
album, Dio says it established a tone for
the rest of the album. “When you start off
with a blockbuster like that, it makes the
rest of the album so much easier because it
gives you a benchmark to measure the other
songs against.”
Iommi proves he hasn’t lost the ability to
inspire six-string envy, unleashing riffs
like a pack of rabid hellhounds on Atom And
Evil, Fear, Neverwhere, and Eating The
Cannibals, a tune about doing more than
biting the hand that feeds. Butler and
Appice slow the pace while ramping up the
intensity on Follow The Tears and Double The
Pain and Breaking Into Heaven, the latter
diverging from its glacial procession for
Dio’s majestic chorus about fallen angels
planning an attack on paradise.
Track Listing:
Atom And Evil
Fear
Bible Black
Double The Pain
Rock And Roll Angel
The Turn Of The Screw
Eating The Cannibals
Follow The Tears
Neverwhere
Breaking Into Heaven
When the songs were finished, Dio says he,
Iommi and Butler marveled at their own
brutal efficiency. “We almost felt guilty to
tell you the truth. We looked at each other
at one point and said: ‘Is it really done? I
can’t do it any better. Can you? No. Then I
guess were done’,” he recalls laughing. “At
the end of the day, I think what separates
this band is that we know who we are. We
want to do one thing well and not try to be
something we’re not.”
Highly Anticipated New Album from Dio, Iommi,
Butler, and Appice,
Their First in 17 Years, Features Epic First
Single “Bible Black”
Available from Rhino April 28
LOS ANGELES —
After finishing several heralded world tours
as Heaven & Hell last summer, Ronnie James
Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny
Appice were tighter than ever before, both
musically and personally. Agreeing that it
would be a shame to stop making music
together at tour’s end, the quartet began
writing, first in England at Iommi’s home
studio and later in Los Angeles at Dio’s
studio. “The band had gotten too good to
just walk away,” Dio says. “We wanted to
show people that we were still capable of
giving them new music that measured up to
what we’d done in the past.”
With that goal in mind, the band once again
converged on Rockfield Studios in Wales last
winter, the same place they used 17 years
earlier to record their last album,
Dehumanizer. The result is the long awaited
new album THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, featuring 10
soon-to-be-classic tracks from the Dio-fronted
version of Black Sabbath. The highly
anticipated set arrives on April 28 from
Rhino for a suggested list price of $18.98
(physical) and $9.99 (digital).
It took less than three weeks to finish the
album, with most of the songs only needing a
couple of takes. “It was good to play them
live in the studio. It keeps you on edge,”
Iommi says. “I mean, somewhere along the
line we were gonna have to play them live;
might as well start in the studio.” Butler
adds: “We’ve learned from the past that you
can kill a song doing it over and over. The
first Sabbath albums were done in two or
three days. Technically they weren’t great,
but vibe-wise they were great. If you
capture that feeling, that’s all you need.”
“Bible Black,” the epic first single, begins
with Iommi on acoustic guitar behind Dio’s
plaintive wail before the rhythm shifts to a
menacing stomp for the rest of this dark
tale about a book of sinister scriptures.
One of the first songs written for the
album, Dio says it established a tone for
the rest of the album. “When you start off
with a blockbuster like that, it makes the
rest of the album so much easier because it
gives you a benchmark to measure the other
songs against.”
Iommi proves he hasn’t lost the ability to
inspire six-string envy, unleashing riffs
like a pack of rabid hellhounds on “Atom And
Evil,” “Fear,” “Neverwhere,” and “Eating The
Cannibals,” a tune about doing more than
biting the hand that feeds. Butler and
Appice slow the pace while ramping up the
intensity on “Follow The Tears” and “Double
The Pain” and “Breaking Into Heaven,” the
latter diverging from its glacial procession
for Dio’s majestic chorus about fallen
angels planning an attack on paradise.
11th February
2009
HEAVEN & HELL
SET TO REVEAL THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
Highly
Anticipated New Album From Ronnie James Dio,
Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice
To Be Released April 28 From Rhino.
LOS ANGELES —Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi,
Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice returned to
the stage after 15 years in 2007, launching
a triumphant world tour as Heaven & Hell.
Revitalized and inspired by its time on the
road, the quartet recently returned to the
studio, recording the band’s first album
since 1992’s Dehumanizer. The highly
anticipated album, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, will
be available from Rhino on April 28.
“Everyone had so much fun playing together
that we didn’t want it to end,” says the
group. “We started writing together and the
songs started flowing like we never stopped.
We wound up writing and recording an album
that stands up to anything we’ve ever done.
We’re really proud of the music and excited
for people to hear it.”
The dark tone heard on THE DEVIL YOU KNOW is
clear from several of the album’s song
titles, such as “Bible Black,” “Rock & Roll
Angel,” “Breaking Into Heaven,” “Atom &
Evil” and “Eating The Cannibals.”
The seeds of the new album were planted in
2006, when Dio, Iommi, Butler and Appice
returned to the studio to record a trio of
new songs for Black Sabbath: The Dio Years,
a recent compilation of essential tracks
taken from the quartet’s four albums
together. Soon after, the band launched a
run of sold-out shows around the world,
electrifying audiences with its malevolent
metal fury.
20th January
2009
See Tony
Iommi’s Personal Black Gibson SG Custom
Guitar (as used on the new Heaven and Hell
album) on February 7th at the Home of Metal
Momorabilia Archive Tour!
After the
successful first two legs of Home of Metal
the team is back in 2009 for the biggest leg
of this unique fans memorabilia archive
tour. With around 1000 visitors attending
the previous Open Day events that took place
at New Art Gallery Walsall and Wolverhampton
Art Gallery, the Birmingham leg looks to be
a very interesting and well attended event.
The event takes place Saturday 7th of
February, Waterhall. Birmingham Museum & Art
Gallery, 11am - 4pm
Fans of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Judas
Priest, Napalm Death and Godflesh, and are
being encouraged to bring along their
related memorabilia, photos and stories to
the museum to be recorded and archived on
the innovative
www.homeofmetal.com website that
will provide a historical resource for fans,
musicians, educational environments and
journalists alike highlighting the
incredible global impact of this genre of
music, which originated in Birmingham and
The Black Country.
“Heavy Metal was born in the West Midlands
and has developed a global following matched
only in Hip-Hop. Its time to stop sneering
and celebrate this proud cultural heritage…”
Daniel Trilling – New Statesman 30th July
2007
The archive is focused on the innovators of
the genre and those that continued to
develop it: Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin,
Judas Priest, Napalm Death and Godflesh.
Ideally the organisers, Capsule, are looking
for fans to dig out their band T-shirts,
ticket stubs, photos, fanzines, autographs,
tour programmes, flyers etc to help
celebrate the Midlands musical heritage and
help to build a digital archive to tell the
true story of Metal and its unique
birthplace.
Home Of Metal aims to celebrate the bands
that helped put Birmingham & the Black
Country on the musical map, but also had the
imagination and talent to create new genres
and movements, all in their own individual
ways. From Black Sabbath, unquestionably the
founding fathers of heavy metal who
introduced a sense of darkness, the
supernatural, and huge, heavy riffs to an
era still celebrating peace, love and flower
power. Led Zeppelin, arguably one of the
worlds biggest ever bands, who were one of
the first to dirty up RnB and recreate it as
Hard Rock. Judas Priest, defenders of the
faith whose twin guitar attack paved the way
for multitudes of melodic metal acts in
their wake. The 80s and 90s are also
represented by Napalm Death, whose first two
albums introduced Grindcore to an
unsuspecting world, and finally Godflesh,
whose brooding, desolate soundscapes
pioneered industrial metal.
Apart from their postal codes and accents,
all of these bands share a common trait in
that they all were unwilling to conform to
the established rules and guidelines of
their respective musical scenes, and
instead, embraced originality and all
brought something staggeringly new to their
respective musical scenes, and for the most
part, established new genres, sub-cultures
and continue to inspire to this day.
Hosted by Kerrang! Radio presenter - the
legendary Johnny Doom + special guests /
films / a selection of memorabilia. Free
event everyone welcome.
7th January
2009
Heaven And
Hell: Classic Rock Hears Their New Songs
Classic Rock
has heard three unfinished tracks from
Heaven And Hell’s debut album. In a
world-exclusive we visited vocalist Ronnie
James Dio, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist
Geezer Butler and drummer Vinny Appice on
the final day of tracking at Rockfield
Studios in Wales.
Some final touches were still to be added;
for example Iommi wanted to add guitar solos
at his home studio, and the material was in
an unmixed state.
Due to be released in late April, the
album’s 10 tracks were co-produced by the
group and engineer Mike Exeter.
The songs we heard were a moody, thuddingly
malevolent number called Rock ’N’ Roll
Jesus, the pacier and more anthemic
Neverwhere, and a slice of sloth-like
majesty that’s likely to be titled Breaking
Into Heaven.
Other tracks expected to appear include
Bible Black, Double Pain and Atom + Evil.
With the band having recorded three tracks
for the Black Sabbath: The Dio Years
anthology and played around 100 shows as
Heaven And Hell, writing began at Iommi and
Dio’s houses in England and California
respectively, either side of the Metal
Masters tour of America with Motörhead,
Judas Priest and Testament.
“Each of us submitted a CD of our ideas, and
we narrowed it down from there,” explains
Iommi. “In some ways it was like picking up
where we’d left off with Dehumanizer
[Sabbath’s 1992 album], which was also done
at Rockfield.”
“I never thought this band would get back
together, but here we are,” marvels Appice.
“Everyone’s more mature, and when we play
together it’s just a monster.”
Touring plans are currently being finalised.
See
exclusive photos of Heaven And Hell at
Rockfield Studios in the February edition
of Classic Rock, on sale Wednesday,
January 7.
Tony
Iommi rocks onto the Walk of Star’s this
November 23rd
Fresh on the heels of Julie Walter’s
accepting the offer of a star (date to be
confirmed), the Broad Street Business
Improvement District is delighted to
announce that Heaven and Hell guitarist,
founding member of Black Sabbath, Grammy
Award winner and king of heavy metal Tony
Iommi will be honoured on the Broad Street
Walk of Star’s on Sunday 23rd November 2008.
Following an afternoon of live music from
local bands on the stage in Centenary Square
‘Kerrang Radio’ presenter Johnny Doom will
host the evening, with the presentation of
the star taking place at 6.30pm.
Born in
Aston,
Birmingham, guitarist and songwriter
Tony is best known as the founding member of
pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath,
and more of less single-handedly inventing
the heavy rock music genre. Iommi is widely
recognized as one of the most important and
influential guitarists in rock music and is
widely considered to be the man who invented
the heavy metal riff.
Iommi has released over 30 albums with Black
Sabbath, 2 solo albums, has sold over 80
million copies and is the recipient of 20
platinum and 14 gold albums. Black Sabbath
were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame
in November 2005, and in March 2006 into New
York’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Currently working on a new studio album with
Heaven and Hell in America Tony is thrilled
to return home to accept his Walk of Star
honour; “It’s great – it’s really an honour
– I’m really proud of it … I was shocked!
It’s so nice to have things like that! I’ve
got one out in LA but I’m not from LA – It’s
so nice being recognised in your home town”.
Mike Olley, Broad Street Manager, said “We
are delighted to be welcoming Tony onto the
Broad Street Walk of Star’s. The
contribution he has made to rock music
deserves to be honoured and we are excited
he has agreed to give us the opportunity to
do so”.
29th October
2008
100 Greatest
Rock Songs
Heaven and
Hell will feature on the TV programme “100
Greatest Rock Songs” that will debut on VH1,
December 8th and VH1 Classic, December 15th.
28th August
2008
Heaven & Hell
Exclusive Interview To premiere On American
Headbangers Ball This Weekend
An exclusive
interview with Heaven & Hell will be
featured this weekend on Headbangers Ball,
which airs on American MTV2 from 12AM ˆ 1AM
on Saturday night (technically early Sunday
morning on August 31). Ronnie James Dio,
Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice
will be speaking about their Metal Masters
tour with Judas Priest, Motörhead, and
Testament, the new Dio-era Black Sabbath
boxed set, The Rules Of Hell, as well as
future plans for Heaven & Hell.
Snippets from the interview are available
exclusively at
headbangersblog.com starting today with
more rolling out through the rest of the
week. Be sure to tune in this Saturday
night!
18th July 2008
"Rules Of
Hell" Box set trailer
Check out the new trailer for the “Rules of
Hell” box set on youtube,
click here.
9th July 2008
Black
Sabbath In Store Signing
Black Sabbath - Ronnie James Dio, Tony
Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice - will
sign copies of their new box set "Black
Sabbath: The Rules of Hell"* at Vintage
Vinyl on Saturday, August 2nd from 3pm-4pm.
Vintage Vinyl's address is 51 Lafayette Road
- Fords, NJ 08863 - ph# 732-225-7717. Please
contact the store for details.
*due to time constraints, the band will only
sign copies of The Rules of Hell box set or
Heaven and Hell: Live from Radio City Music
Hall (DVD/CD).
23th June 2008
Black Sabbath
Enforces The Rules of Hell: CD Box Set
Heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath were
reborn in 1980 when founding members Tony Iommi and Terry “Geezer” Butler added
vocalist Ronnie James Dio to the lineup. The
band’s short but memorable time together
added an unforgettable chapter in Sabbath’s
storied history. Rhino relives the demonic
fury conjured by the Dio era with THE RULES
OF HELL, a boxed set featuring all three of
the band’s studio releases (Heaven And Hell,
Mob Rules, Dehumanizer) and their double
live collection (Live Evil) – each recently
remastered for the first time. The set comes
packaged in a deluxe slipcase with extensive
liner notes featuring all new interviews
with the band. This five-disc boxed set will
be available from Rhino on July 22 at all
physical outlets, as well as www.rhino.com
<http://www.rhino.com> , for a suggested
list price of $54.98. The set will also be
available the same day at all digital
outlets for a suggested list price of
$24.99.
Two years ago, Dio, Iommi and Butler and
drummer Vinny Appice reunited to record a
trio of new songs for Rhino’s Black Sabbath:
The Dio Years before launching a highly
anticipated and greatly acclaimed world tour
under their new moniker Heaven & Hell.
Revitalized by the reunion, the lineup is
back in the studio now recording the first
ever full-length studio album from Heaven &
Hell, set to be released by Rhino in early
2009. To whet the fans’ appetites for the
new album, Heaven & Hell will return to the
road for a short stint on the Metal Masters
Tour, a month-long North American trek with
Judas Priest, Motörhead, and Testament. This
blistering metal juggernaut will launch
August 6 in Philadelphia.
The Dio-era’s first effort, HEAVEN AND HELL,
hit the racks on April 25, 1980. Greeted by
ecstatic reviews, the album peaked at #9 in
Britain. In the U.S., its Top 30 success
gave the group its first platinum disc in
six years. Opening with the chugging anthem
“Neon Knights,” the album also includes the
epic title track, “Wishing Well,” “Die
Young” and “Lonely Is The Word.”
The group’s follow-up, MOB RULES, was the
first without original drummer Bill Ward,
who was replaced with Appice. The album
bristles with Iommi’s signature dark riffs,
Butler’s elaborate bass lines, Appice’s
hammering behind the drums and Dio’s
inimitable growling. The album includes the
high-octane tracks—“Falling Off The Edge Of
The World,” “Turn Up The Night,” and the
title track—plus the mid-tempo rocker
“Voodoo” and the slow-churning epic “The
Sign Of The Southern Cross,” a favorite
among band members and fans alike.
Released in December 1982, LIVE EVIL stands
as a modern metal masterpiece and a
testament to the power of the Dio, Iommi,
Butler and Appice lineup. Recorded in
Seattle, Dallas, and San Antonio, the sound
is upfront and aggressive, a virtual
front-row seat for epic versions of their
classics including “Neon Knights,” “Children
Of The Sea,” “The Sign Of The Southern
Cross” and “Heaven And Hell.”
DEHUMANIZER (1992) is seen by many metal
aficionados as one of—if not the
most—underrated work to ever carry the
Sabbath name. After the lineup fell apart in
1982, the group reconvened a decade later to
release this lost classic. The album forged
something new, pushing its legend to a new
generation of metal heads with incredible
tracks like “I,” “Computer God” and “TV
Crimes.”
THE RULES OF HELL
Track Listing
HEAVEN AND HELL
1. “Neon Knights”
2. “Children Of The Sea”
3. “Lady Evil”
4. “Heaven And Hell”
5. “Wishing Well”
6. “Die Young”
7. “Walk Away”
8. “Lonely Is The Word”
MOB RULES
1. “Turn Up The Night”
2. “Voodoo”
3. “The Sign Of The Southern Cross”
4. “E5150”
5. “The Mob Rules”
6. “Country Girl”
7. “Slipping Away”
8. “Falling Off The Edge Of The World”
9. “Over And Over”
LIVE EVIL
Disc 1
1. “E5150”
2. “Neon Knights”
3. “N.I.B.”
4. “Children Of The Sea”
5. “Voodoo”
6. “Black Sabbath”
7. “War Pigs”
8. “Iron Man”
Disc 2
1. “The Mob Rules”
2. “Heaven And Hell”
3. “The Sign Of The Southern Cross/Heaven
And Hell”
4. “Paranoid”
5. “Children Of The Grave”
6. “Fluff”
DEHUMANIZER
1. “Computer God”
2. “After All (The Dead)”
3. “TV Crimes”
4. “Letters From Earth”
5. “Master Of Insanity”
6. “Time Machine”
7. “Sins Of The Father”
8. “Too Late”
9. “I”
10. “Buried Alive”
11. “Time Machine” (Wayne’s World Version)
Heaven & Hell North American Tour Dates
(Except where noted, all shows also feature
Judas Priest, Motörhead, and Testament)
AUGUST
6 Philadelphia, PA Susquehanna Bank Center
7 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion
9 Holmdel, NJ PNC Arts Center
10 Wantagh, NJ Jones Beach Theater
12 Hamburg, NY Grandstand Stage/America's
Fair **
13 Toronto, ONT Molson Amphitheatre
15 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena##
16 Pittsburgh, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
18 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Center
19 Chicago, IL First Midwest Band
Amphitheatre
22 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center
23 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Pavilion
24 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless
Amphitheatre
27 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
28 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion
30 San Bernadino, CA Hyundai Pavilion At
Glen Helen
31 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
**Featuring Motörhead and Testament ONLY
## Featuring Judas Priest and Testament ONLY
11th June 2008
Sam Ash Gear
Guide Magazine June/July 2008 – Tony Iommi
Interview
Black Sabbath / Heaven & Hell Gear
Giveaway!!
Article Taken From This Months Total Guitar
Magazine.
Click to enlarge images
20th May 2008
Black Sabbath
Enforces The Rules of Hell: CD Box Set
LOS ANGELES –
Heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath were
reborn in 1980 when founding members Tony
Iommi and Terry “Geezer” Butler added
vocalist Ronnie James Dio to the lineup. The
band’s short but memorable time together
added an unforgettable chapter in Sabbath’s
storied history. Rhino relives the demonic
fury conjured by the Dio era with THE RULES
OF HELL, a boxed set featuring all three of
the band’s studio releases (Heaven And Hell,
Mob Rules, Dehumanizer) and their double
live collection (Live Evil) – each recently
remastered for the first time. The set comes
packaged in a deluxe slipcase with extensive
liner notes featuring all new interviews
with the band. This five-disc boxed set will
be available from Rhino on July 22 at all
physical outlets, as well as www.rhino.com
<http://www.rhino.com> , for a suggested
list price of $54.98. The set will also be
available the same day at all digital
outlets for a suggested list price of
$24.99.
Two years ago, Dio, Iommi and Butler and
drummer Vinny Appice reunited to record a
trio of new songs for Rhino’s Black Sabbath:
The Dio Years before launching a highly
anticipated and greatly acclaimed world tour
under their new moniker Heaven & Hell.
Revitalized by the reunion, the lineup is
back in the studio now recording the first
ever full-length studio album from Heaven &
Hell, set to be released by Rhino in early
2009. To whet the fans’ appetites for the
new album, Heaven & Hell will return to the
road for a short stint on the Metal Masters
Tour, a month-long North American trek with
Judas Priest, Motörhead, and Testament. This
blistering metal juggernaut will launch
August 6 in Philadelphia.
The Dio-era’s first effort, HEAVEN AND HELL,
hit the racks on April 25, 1980. Greeted by
ecstatic reviews, the album peaked at #9 in
Britain. In the U.S., its Top 30 success
gave the group its first platinum disc in
six years. Opening with the chugging anthem
“Neon Knights,” the album also includes the
epic title track, “Wishing Well,” “Die
Young” and “Lonely Is The Word.”
The group’s follow-up, MOB RULES, was the
first without original drummer Bill Ward,
who was replaced with Appice. The album
bristles with Iommi’s signature dark riffs,
Butler’s elaborate bass lines, Appice’s
hammering behind the drums and Dio’s
inimitable growling. The album includes the
high-octane tracks—“Falling Off The Edge Of
The World,” “Turn Up The Night,” and the
title track—plus the mid-tempo rocker
“Voodoo” and the slow-churning epic “The
Sign Of The Southern Cross,” a favorite
among band members and fans alike.
Released in December 1982, LIVE EVIL stands
as a modern metal masterpiece and a
testament to the power of the Dio, Iommi,
Butler and Appice lineup. Recorded in
Seattle, Dallas, and San Antonio, the sound
is upfront and aggressive, a virtual
front-row seat for epic versions of their
classics including “Neon Knights,” “Children
Of The Sea,” “The Sign Of The Southern
Cross” and “Heaven And Hell.”
DEHUMANIZER (1992) is seen by many metal
aficionados as one of—if not the
most—underrated work to ever carry the
Sabbath name. After the lineup fell apart in
1982, the group reconvened a decade later to
release this lost classic. The album forged
something new, pushing its legend to a new
generation of metal heads with incredible
tracks like “I,” “Computer God” and “TV
Crimes.”
THE RULES OF HELL
Track Listing
HEAVEN AND HELL
1. “Neon Knights”
2. “Children Of The Sea”
3. “Lady Evil”
4. “Heaven And Hell”
5. “Wishing Well”
6. “Die Young”
7. “Walk Away”
8. “Lonely Is The Word”
MOB RULES
1. “Turn Up The Night”
2. “Voodoo”
3. “The Sign Of The Southern Cross”
4. “E5150”
5. “The Mob Rules”
6. “Country Girl”
7. “Slipping Away”
8. “Falling Off The Edge Of The World”
9. “Over And Over”
LIVE EVIL
Disc 1
1. “E5150”
2. “Neon Knights”
3. “N.I.B.”
4. “Children Of The Sea”
5. “Voodoo”
6. “Black Sabbath”
7. “War Pigs”
8. “Iron Man”
Disc 2
1. “The Mob Rules”
2. “Heaven And Hell”
3. “The Sign Of The Southern Cross/Heaven
And Hell”
4. “Paranoid”
5. “Children Of The Grave”
6. “Fluff”
DEHUMANIZER
1. “Computer God”
2. “After All (The Dead)”
3. “TV Crimes”
4. “Letters From Earth”
5. “Master Of Insanity”
6. “Time Machine”
7. “Sins Of The Father”
8. “Too Late”
9. “I”
10. “Buried Alive”
11. “Time Machine” (Wayne’s World Version)
Heaven & Hell North American Tour Dates
(Except where noted, all shows also feature
Judas Priest, Motörhead, and Testament)
AUGUST
6 Philadelphia, PA Susquehanna Bank Center
7 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion
9 Holmdel, NJ PNC Arts Center
10 Wantagh, NJ Jones Beach Theater
12 Hamburg, NY Grandstand Stage/America's
Fair **
13 Toronto, ONT Molson Amphitheatre
15 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena##
16 Pittsburgh, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
18 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Center
19 Chicago, IL First Midwest Band
Amphitheatre
22 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center
23 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Pavilion
24 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless
Amphitheatre
27 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
28 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion
30 San Bernadino, CA Hyundai Pavilion At
Glen Helen
31 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
**Featuring Motörhead and Testament ONLY
## Featuring Judas Priest and Testament ONLY
22nd March
2008
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
METAL LEGENDS JUDAS PRIEST, HEAVEN &
HELL, MOTORHEAD, AND TESTAMENT UNITE FOR
‘METAL MASTERS TOUR’ WORLD PREMIERE OF JUDAS
PRIEST ‘NOSTRADAMUS’ COVER ART AND FREE MP3
DOWNLOAD OFTITLE
TRACK AT LIVENATION.COM
After weeks of speculation, Live Nation has
put together a killer package that is bound
to go down as the heavy metal event of 2008
- Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell, Motorhead,
and Testament will be touring together for
the first time.
Dubbed ‘The Metal Masters Tour,’ the sixteen
date U.S. trek kicks off August 6th at the
Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, New
Jersey.
Judas Priest will be supporting their epic
concept album, ‘Nostradamus,’ which will
arrive on June 17th via Epic Records, and
tells the tale of the renowned 16th century
prophet. A few tracks from ‘Nostradamus’
will make their in-concert debut on ‘The
Metal Masters Tour,’ but the majority of
Priest’s set list will include some of
metal’s all-time classics, as well as fan
favorites that span the quintet’s entire
career. Without a doubt, this will be one of
Priest’s most powerful sets ever.
As a ‘sneak peak treat’ to fans starved for
a musical taster, the first cut off the new
album will make its world premiere debut as
exclusive free MP3 download starting today
exclusively at www.livenation.com/judaspriest.
Heaven & Hell will be supporting the release
of ‘The Rules Of Hell’ a five-CD boxed set
available on July 22nd from Rhino Records
which features re-mastered versions of all
four Dio-era Black Sabbath albums (‘Heaven
and Hell,’ ‘Mob Rules,’ ‘Live Evil,’ and ‘Dehumanizer’)
in a deluxe package with new liner notes.
Perennial road rats Motorhead will be
touring strictly for the love of it,
offering a fan favorites set spanning more
than three decades worth of molar-rattling
metal. Motorhead’s last album was 2006’s
‘Kiss of Death’ (released via Sanctuary
Records), their 19th studio set of their
long and highly influential career. A new
album is currently in the works as well,
which is currently being recorded at their
old pal Dave Grohl’s studio with a August
release date targeted. Lemmy blairs out,
"Here it comes everybody, the test of your
Metalness in 2008 and the years to come!
Come one come all and be abused!"
Rounding out the line-up will be legendary
thrash metal titans Testament, whose new
album, ‘The Formation of Damnation,’ (April
29th,) displays Testament as the
quintessential modern heavy metal band,
whose experience and accumulated skill
allows them to attack with reserves of
anger, energy and finesse that make them
more powerful than ever. Lead singer Chuck
Billy says, “Uniting these bands is the
heavy metal event of generations. We are so
proud to be a part of it.”
Although all four bands may represent
different subgenres of heavy metal, all four
have one thing in common – they have stuck
to their stylistic guns through thick and
thin, and have remained true to the metal
form.
And soon, band and fan will be united as one
on ‘The Metal Masters Tour.’
“As ever, we look forward to screaming out
loud with our metal maniac fans when we hit
the road,” enthuses Priest singer, Rob
Halford. “Thank you once again for your
devotion and support. The Priest is back!”
This tour will be limited to fifteen very
special engagements, and Citi cardmembers
will have pre-sale access to tickets through
Citi's Private Pass® Program, available to
all Citi cardmembers at
www.privatepass.citi.com.
Metal maniacs seeking the ultimate concert
experience can access unique VIP ticket and
fan experience packages that offer premium
seats, meet & greets, pre-concert parties
and more brought to you by the band's
official websites,
www.judaspriest.com and
www.heavenandhelllive.com.
VIP packages for the first events will be on
sale by 10 a.m eastern time on Friday, April
25th. Also, not all VIP packages are the
same, so be sure to pick the right one that
suits you best.
Tickets go on sale to the public beginning
this weekend at www.livenation.com.
See the official web sites for continually
updated tour information and on-sale dates.
The dates are as follows:
Wed 06-Aug-08 Susquehanna Bank Center,
Camden, NJ – PUBLIC ON SALE APRIL 26, 10 am
Thu 07-Aug-08 Nissan Pavilion, Bristow, VA –
PUBLIC ON SALE SOON
Sat 09-Aug-08 PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel,
NJ – PUBLIC ON SALE APRIL 26, 10 am
Sun 10-Aug-08 Nikon at Jones Beach, Wantagh,
NY – PUBLIC ON SALE APRIL 26, 10 am
Wed 13-Aug-08 Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto,
ON – PUBLIC ON SALE APRIL 25, 10 am
Sat 16-Aug-08 Post Gazette Pavilion,
Pittsburgh, PA – PUBLIC ON SALE APRIL 25, 10
am
Mon 18-Aug-08 DTE Energy Music Theatre,
Detroit, MI – PUBLIC ON SALE SOON
Tue 19-Aug-08 First Midwest Bank
Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL – PUBLIC ON SALE
APRIL 25, 5 pm
Fri 22-Aug-08 Superpages.com Amphitheatre,
Dallas, TX – PUBLIC ON SALE SOON
Sat 23-Aug-08 Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Pavilion, Houston, TX – PUBLIC ON SALE SOON
Sun 24-Aug-08 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre,
San Antonio, TX – PUBLIC ON SALE SOON
Wed 27-Aug-08 Journal Pavilion, Albuquerque,
NM – PUBLIC ON SALE SOON
Thu 28-Aug-08 Cricket Wireless Pavilion,
Phoenix, AZ – PUBLIC ON SALE SOON
Sat 30-Aug-08 Glen Helen Pavilion, San
Bernardino, CA – PUBLIC ON SALE SOON
Sun 31-Aug-08 Shoreline Amphitheatre,
Mountain View, CA – PUBLIC ON SALE APRIL 27,
10 am
11th
March 2008
Black Sabbath - The Dio Years is
now available as an MVI release.
The 2-disc set includes
the original Dio Years CD release, along
with an enhanced Music Video Interactive (MVI)
disc that features high resolution PCM
stereo mixes, digital files, videos for
"Neon Knights," "Die Young" and "TV Crimes,"
a photo gallery, create your own ringtones,
buddy icons, wallpapers & much more. Go to
www.rhino.com/blacksabbath for more
info.
3rd
March 2008
New
photos of Tony with Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck
and Steven Tyler at last years Classic Rock
Awards.
You can
now view 2 new photos of Tony with Jimmy
Page, Jeff Beck and Steven Tyler at last
years Classic Rock Awards. To view the
images go to
archive / images / photos.
Keep
checking the site for new images,
information and touring news - coming
soon!
20th
November 2007
Heaven and Hell completed
the 98th gig of their 2007 tour!
Last night Heaven and
Hell completed the 98th gig of
their 2007 tour! The band would like to
thank you all, wherever you may be in the
world for your continued support. Heaven
and Hell will see you all again soon so
watch this space!
15th
November 2007
Vote For
“The Mob Rules” as Best Video on MTV2’s
Headbangers Ball
MTV2’s
Headbangers Ball are having an end of year
countdown of the best videos of 2007.
To vote for “The Mob Rules” Live at Radio
City Music Hall simply click on
www.hbb.mtv2.com
23rd
October 2007
VIP tickets
on the upcoming UK Heaven and Hell tour.
Grab your
chance to win VIP tickets on the upcoming UK
Heaven and Hell tour and the opportunity to
meet the band at a show of your choice.
8th
October 2007
Tickets for
the Heaven and Hell Singapore show, October
27th at Fort Canning Park.
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