On 28 April 2009, the band released the studio album The Devil You Know, containing the single " Bible Black". In August, they took part in the Metal Masters Tour alongside Judas Priest, Motörhead and Testament. However, in a March 2007 interview, Dio and Iommi stated that while they were both tied to separate contractual commitments in 2008, neither would discount the possibility of future collaborations six months later, the band members announced their decision to continue their collaboration and record and release a new album. Dio planned to return to his eponymous band to produce Magica II and Magica III, sequels to their 2000 album Magica, while Appice would continue with his project 3 Legged Dogg. Initially, the members had stated that their 2007 tour was a one-off and had expressed their intentions to go their separate ways at its conclusion. Vinny Appice (left) and Ronnie Dio performing in 2007
This tour was voted "Comeback of the Year" at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards by readers of Classic Rock. He also backed the Osbourne-led version of the group briefly in 1998 while Ward was ill.įollowing the recording of three new tracks for Black Sabbath – The Dio Years, the group embarked on a 2007 tour. Appice had replaced Ward midway through the original Heaven and Hell tour in 1980, and he remained the Black Sabbath drummer for two years coinciding with Dio's tenure in the band from 1980 to 1982, and again when Dio reunited with the band in 19. His departure made way for a reunion of the other Dio-fronted Black Sabbath lineup which included journeyman drummer Vinny Appice. Ward, who performed on the 1980 Heaven and Hell album and the first half of the tour, ultimately declined to be the band's drummer before they recorded, citing musical differences. However, for The Dio Years - for which the band would end up recording three new songs rather than two - the band continued to use the Black Sabbath name. At Iommi's behest, the group rebranded themselves Heaven & Hell to differentiate this incarnation from the Osbourne-fronted Black Sabbath which was then only on a hiatus. Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward were initially named as the rhythm section completing the project. He stated that two songs would be penned, and were to feature on a "project" entitled Black Sabbath - The Dio Years. In an October 2005 interview with the programme "Masters of Rock", aired on BBC Radio 2, Ronnie James Dio revealed his plans to work with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi once again. History Formation and early days (2005–2006) The group disbanded following Dio's death from stomach cancer in 2010. So by calling ourselves Heaven & Hell, it's revisiting that period."
it's none of the old stuff, it's none of the Ozzy period. According to Iommi, the name change was made to avoid confusion between the two different lineups of Black Sabbath, so that fans at concerts "would not expect to hear 'Iron Man' and 'War Pigs' and all that. The decision to call the touring group Heaven & Hell was made to differentiate the project from the Ozzy Osbourne-led Black Sabbath lineup which had reformed and was also recording and touring periodically. After they reunited to record three new songs for the 2007 compilation album, Black Sabbath: The Dio Years, they embarked on a 2007–2008 tour. The four members of Heaven & Hell recorded and toured together as Black Sabbath from 1980 to 1982, and again from 1991 to 1992. The band's name was taken from the title of the first Black Sabbath album to feature Dio after the band's original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne was fired in 1979. The band was a collaboration between Black Sabbath founding members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler and former Black Sabbath and Dio members Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice. Heaven & Hell was a British-American heavy metal supergroup active from 2006 to 2010.
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