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Heaven and Hell
Album info
Release	25 Apr 1980
Recorded	Oct 1979 – Jan 1980 at Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida and Studio Ferber, Paris
Genre	Heavy metallic
Length	39:46
Label	Vertigo Warner Bros. (United states/Canada)
Producer	Martin Birch

Heaven and Hell is the ninth studio album by the English heavy metal band Blackness Sabbath, released on 25 Apr 1980. It is the showtime Black Sabbath album to feature vocalizer Ronnie James Dio, who replaced original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne in 1979.

Produced by Martin Birch, the album was a commercial success, particularly in the United states, where information technology reached number 28 on the Billboard 200 chart.^[1] In the band's native land, it sold well enough to exist certified silver by the British Phonographic Manufacture in April 1982.

Contents

• ane Osbourne sessions
• ii Recording
• 3 Composition
• 4 Artwork
• v Reception
• half dozen Track listing
  • 6.1 2010 deluxe edition
• vii Singles
• 8 Personnel
• ix Release history
• 10 Covers
• 11 References

Osbourne sessions [ ]

The initial sessions for what became the Heaven and Hell album actually began with Ozzy Osbourne subsequently Black Sabbath'due south Never Say Die! tour, when the band moved to Los Angeles for eleven months in an try to record a new album, a process that guitarist Tony Iommi describes in his autobiography Atomic number 26 Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath as a "highly frustrating, never-catastrophe process." In his own autobiography I Am Ozzy, Osbourne states that he had go fed upwards with the experimentation on the ring's previous albums Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die!, preferring the band's before, heavier sound, only also admits "it was clear they'd had enough of my insane behavior." By all accounts, although each the band fellow member was experiencing substance abuse problems, Osbourne's was the worst, and this contributed to his estrangement from the others. Graham Wright, who was Beak Ward's drum tech, and sometime Osbourne personal banana David Tangye write in their memoir How Black Was Our Sabbath, "The fundamental problem betwixt the vocaliser and the guitarist had not gone away. Ozzy was frustrated past Tony'due south musical ambitions and willingness to spend extended periods in the studio. He believed Sabbath had lost their direction... Iommi, for his role, was livid at Ozzy's apathy, his lack of delivery and contribution for the next album, which was suppose to be a make new start for Sabbath." According to Wright and Tangye, the atmosphere was terrible and the rehearsals ground to a halt when Iommi, e'er the band's creative goad, "went into hibernation in his sleeping accommodation."

In his memoir, Iommi reveals that he still has a version of Osbourne singing "Children Of The Sea" with "a different lyric and a totally unlike vocal tune to what Ronnie did with it", merely soon subsequently this initial interest the vocaliser "sort of fizzled abroad." Bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler was as well frustrated with Osbourne, telling Joe Matera in 2007, "I was sick and tired of similar coming upwardly with lyrics and I was also running out of things to write about. Ozzy was and so out of it at the fourth dimension and I had spent weeks doing all these lyrics and yet he wouldn't even read them. So I was so pissed off that I stopped writing lyrics and wanted to concentrate on bass playing, which is why I am a bass thespian in the first place." Osbourne was fired from Blackness Sabbath on 27 April 1979. Although he saw his dismissal coming, Osbourne remained very bitter that Iommi, who had always been "the boss" of Blackness Sabbath, had Ward settle the affair over the phone, stating in the 1991 documentary Don't Arraign Me, "When it came to the firing of me, he got Bill—who was my all-time friend, my closest member of Blackness Sabbath—to do the dirty human activity. I didn't encounter him; he was locked away in his room." In the same documentary, Osbourne as well states that he knew Iommi had already been talking to Ronnie James Dio, anticipating his departure. In the 2013 book Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe, Butler admits, "I cried me eyes out for ii days. Cos I always said like, 'Sabbath is iv people—Ozzy, Tony, Neb and me. And if whatsoever of u.s.a. e'er exit or are fired, it's not Black Sabbath anymore.'" Iommi counters in his autobiography, claiming to have been acting on behalf of the other band members in an effort to movement things forrard, and admits that Don Arden (father of Sharon Osbourne, Osbourne's future director and wife) was adamant that Osbourne be reinstated, famously quipping, "You tin can't take a midget singing for Black Sabbath!"—a derogatory reference to Dio. Ironically, Dio was first introduced to Iommi in 1979 by Sharon Osbourne.^[2] Initially, Dio and Iommi discussed forming a new band, rather than a continuation of Black Sabbath.^[2] The pair met over again by run a risk at The Rainbow on Dusk Strip in Los Angeles later that year.^[3] Both men were in similar situations, every bit Dio was seeking a new project and Iommi required a vocalizer. Said Dio of the run into, "It must take been fate, because nosotros connected so instantly."^[3] The pair kept in touch on via telephone, until Dio arrived at Iommi'southward Los Angeles house for a relaxed, getting-to-know-you jam session. On that outset day, the duo finished the song "Children of the Sea".^[iii]

Osbourne was famously quoted at the time as maxim Dio would need a "bullet-proof vest" to sing with Sabbath on stage and afterwards wrote in his autobiography, "I don't have anything bad to say about the guy they hired to replace me, Ronnie James Dio... He's a great vocaliser. And so again, he ain't me, and I own't him. So I just wish they'd called the ring Black Sabbath II." Speaking to John Stix in 1992, Dio reflected, "I gave them (Sabbath) a level to come up to. They had a vocaliser who sang, not a singer who was a caricature of himself, so that made the band more important."

Recording [ ]

Black Sabbath'due south line-up was in chaos prior to the recording of Heaven and Hell. Not just had Osbourne recently been replaced, just drummer Bill Ward was battling personal bug that would encounter him eventually leave the band. Original demo recordings for the anthology featured Geoff Nicholls on bass, as Butler was going through a divorce and his future with the band was in question.^[iii] In fact, when Dio start joined the ring he was doubling as bassist and vocalist,^[2] having played bass in the band Elf in the early 1970s. At 1 point Iommi contacted close friend Frank Zappa for help finding a bassist;^[2] Zappa offered his bassist for the Heaven and Hell sessions but Iommi preferred a permanent fellow member.^[2] Eventually, Butler returned and Nicholls stayed on as the ring's unofficial keyboardist.^[3] Former Elf and Rainbow bassist Craig Gruber also rehearsed with the band during this period, though the true extent of Gruber'due south involvement is unclear. In a 1996 interview, Iommi stated that Gruber rehearsed with the band only "for a bit".^[4] Gruber has stated that his contribution was much more substantial; he claims to take co-written nigh of Heaven and Hell's songs and that it was really he and not Butler who played bass on the album.^[5] Despite not being credited for his contributions, Gruber claims "we came to a suitable financial arrangement".^[five] Iommi later stated in his 2011 autobiography that Gruber did in fact record all the bass parts on the Heaven and Hell album, but that Butler re-recorded the parts upon his return to the band without having listened to Gruber'southward bass tracks.

Heaven and Hell was recorded at the Criteria Studios in Miami, the same identify where the band had recorded Technical Ecstasy. Dio suggested the ring hire producer Martin Birch for the album.^[3] Birch was the first outside producer the band had used since 1971'due south Main of Reality, every bit Iommi had primarily produced the band's albums since that point on his own.^[2] Iommi stated that the band felt that they were creating something very special, writing in his memoir that, "Ozzy would sing with the riff. Merely mind to 'Fe Human' and yous'll catch my migrate: his vocal tune line copies the melody of the music. In that location was nothing incorrect with that, but Ronnie liked singing across the riff instead of with it, come up with a melody that was dissimilar from that of the music, which musically opens a lot more doors. I don't desire to sound like I'one thousand knocking Ozzy, merely Ronnie's approach opened up a new way for me to think..." Dio was as invigorated, explaining to Guitar for the Practicing Musician in 1992 that Sabbath was "the happiest ring I'd e'er been with in my life" and that it was more than fun working with Iommi than his former Rainbow bandmate Ritchie Blackmore considering "Tony only played what came off the top of his head. That's why yous hear elementary heavy riffs like 'Iron Human being.' Ritchie would never accept done that. That would be besides common for Ritchie. Tony just played what came from his eye." Equally Butler later explained to ultimateGuitar.com in 2007, "When Ronnie came in and with him beingness a lyricist also, he came with a total different attitude so it totally freed me up to concentrate on the music side of information technology."

Drummer Neb Ward has stated that he has "no memory" of making the anthology, due in big part to his alcoholism.^[vi] His behaviour became quite erratic; when the ring began touring in support of Sky And Hell, Ward began dictating long and rambling printing releases to the band's public relations representatives afterward every show, instructing them to "get that out on the news wires tonight".^[3] In his autobiography, Iommi recalls that during rehearsals for the album at Barry Gibb's house, Ward would start his day with nearly ten beers in the morn and his mood would darken as the day went on, to the bespeak where "We'd avert him by nine or ten o'clock at night, considering he would get into a real down state of mind and become aggressive. Meanwhile, his playing was fine." Iommi also recounts several practical jokes that he pulled on his long-suffering bandmate (including setting Ward on burn down and causing third-caste burns to his legs), but 1 particular incident incited an unexpected reaction: he tricked the drummer into calling Alcoholics Anonymous, making him retrieve it was an interview. According to Iommi, "...he freaked out completely. I'd never seen him like that. The phone went upwardly in the air and crashed to the flooring. We all fucked off equally fast as nosotros could. He didn't accept information technology as a joke at all and was in a terrible mood for ages." Ward'southward personal issues, which included the deaths of both his parents, would shortly forcefulness him to leave the ring. Dio reportedly answered the telephone in his hotel room one morning mid-bout to hear Ward say "I'm off and so, Ron", to which Dio replied "That'south nice Beak, where are yous going?". "No, I'm off mate. I'g at the drome now...", indicating that he was incapable of completing the tour with the band.^[3] American drummer Vinny Appice was rapidly brought in to supercede him. In the book How Black Was Our Sabbath, Ward's former drum tech Graham Wright recalls speaking to the drummer outside McNichol'due south Arena in Denver: "I went out to talk to him in the camper van, and I saw a relatively young homo, very tired, very boozer and very dislocated who was nevertheless certain about 1 matter: he wanted to quit and he did, right there and then." The book too quotes Ward as saying, "After I got sober, I realized that I'd lied to Tony, Geezer, Ozzy and myself. I didn't want to be in a ring without Ozzy."

Limerick [ ]

Dio always cited the vocal "Heaven And Hell" every bit his over-all personal favorite song of his career, emphasizing to Craig Goldie in 1992, "'Heaven and Hell' will always be my favorite song. 'Children of the Bounding main' and 'Lonely is a Word' were keen songs from the offset menstruum together. Although if I had to point to ane, it would be 'Heaven and Hell'." In an interview for VH1's Heavy: The Story of Metallic, Dio stated that the song is about the ability of each human being to choose betwixt doing proficient and doing evil, essentially that each person has "heaven and hell" inside themselves. When the vocal has been performed live past Blackness Sabbath, Dio or Sky & Hell, it's usually stretched out with an extended guitar solo, audience participation, ad-libbed lyrics, or boosted lyrics regarding celestial and demonic apparitions and personal judgment. In the liner notes for the 2008 box set The Rules of Hell, Butler says he was "diddled away past 'Die Immature' when I came back to the band. I wasn't around when it was written, so the whole thing was fresh to me. I couldn't believe my ears!" "Die Immature" was performed live during well-nigh all Dio era concerts and after on sometimes with Ian Gillan and Tony Martin on vocals. Iommi customarily plays a lengthy instrumental introductory passage to the song when performing live with heavy atmospheric keyboard bankroll. Of "Children of the Sea" Dio said, "Tony had this dandy riff he played me only nothing to go with information technology. I said, 'Gimme a minute' and went into the corner and started writing down the words." Iommi recalled the moment as a turning point in Black Sabbath's career, recalling to Jon Hotten in 2013, "It was exciting and challenging considering we were doing things that quite bluntly would take been across us with Ozzy. He wasn't that sort of singer." Speaking to Dave Ling in 2008, Dio revealed that "Walk Away" was inspired by his wife and longstanding managing director Wendy while "Lady Evil" was near no one in particular, "other than maybe just some old hag who lives in a swamp somewhere." "Neon Knights" was the last song written past the band for the Heaven and Hell album; it was quickly written and recorded at Studio Ferber in Paris simply to fill time on the album'southward first side. The lyrics were written by Dio. Information technology is the just song on Sky and Hell to definitely feature songwriting input from bassist Geezer Butler.

Artwork [ ]

The album's encompass art was taken from a painting past artist Lynn Curlee, Smoking Angels, inspired past a 1928 photograph of women dressed as angels smoking backstage during a interruption at a college pageant.^{[seven] [8]} Curlee was also deputed to practise an album encompass for Blueish Öyster Cult past Sandy Pearlman, who managed both bands. The anthology'south back cover analogy of the band was fatigued by artist Harry Carmean.^[9]

Reception [ ]

The album was successful, becoming their highest-charting album (No. 9 UK, No. 28 US^[10]) since 1975's Sabotage and the tertiary highest-selling album of Black Sabbath behind Paranoid and Master of Reality, respectively. It was eventually certified platinum in 1986 for selling 1 million copies in the United States. In the United kingdom, information technology became the third Black Sabbath studio album to reach silvery certification (60,000 units sold) past the British Phonographic Manufacture, achieving this in November 1980. Information technology subsequently attained aureate certification (100,000 units sold) in Apr 1982, the simply Black Sabbath studio album to be thus certified. Heaven and Hell was re-released as part of the Black Sabbath box set The Rules of Hell in 2008.^[11] Greg Prato of AllMusic calls Sky and Hell "I of Sabbath's finest records" and maintains that the band "sounds reborn and re-energized throughout." Giving the album five stars, Sputnikmusic'south Tyler Munro opines, "Musically, the anthology speeds thing up, while still retaining the Sabbath sound...Complete with a slow plodding bassline and repetitive drumming, the album's title track is quite perhaps the best thing Sabbath accept ever washed...it's 1 of the best Doom Metal songs e'er recorded." Amazon.com calls Heaven and Hell Sabbath's "almost potent offering since Main of Reality."

While Dio'due south addition revitalized Sabbath and brought them a younger, more enthusiastic fan base of operations, there were some critics and listeners who insist Sabbath had been irretrievably contradistinct, with Rolling Stone contending, "Although Dio could belt with the all-time of them, Sabbath would never exist the same." In his autobiography Iommi admits, "We were doing big shows and it was hard for Ronnie to become out and stand in forepart of people who had seen Ozzy in that spot for x years. Some of the kids hated it and they'd shout: 'Ozzy, Ozzy!' Just eventually Ronnie won them over." In an interview with Songfacts, former Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society dismisses the idea of the Dio-era existence authentic Sabbath: "You heed to Blackness Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Blackness Sabbath. They should have just called it Heaven & Hell right from the beginning. Considering you listen to that Sky and Hell album, that doesn't sound annihilation close to Blackness Sabbath. I mean, that sounds nearly as much similar Black Sabbath as Blizzard of Ozz sounds like Black Sabbath. If you were to play Black Sabbath for me — and I'g a huge Sabbath freako — and and then with Father Dio over there, I'd be going, 'Oh, cool, what band is this? This is expert stuff.' I mean, the songs don't fifty-fifty audio Blackness Sabbath-y. I mean, 'Neon Knights,' could y'all moving picture Ozzy singing over that vocal?" Regardless of what Ozzy loyalists thought, Sabbath was back, with Mick Wall noting in his book Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe: "For in one case their timing was spot on. In Britain, Sounds mag had begun championing a new musical phenomenon it dubbed 'The New Moving ridge Of British Heavy Metal'...The reborn Black Sabbath, with their glistening new sound, incomparable new singer and summit-drawer new album, were seen as part of a widespread revival in rock fandom."

Rail listing [ ]

All music written and arranged past Butler, Dio, Iommi, and Ward; lyrics past Dio^[9]

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Neon Knights"	iii:53
2.	"Children of the Sea"	five:34
3.	"Lady Evil"	4:26
4.	"Heaven and Hell"	6:59

Side 2
No.	Championship	Length
5.	"Wishing Well"	four:07
half-dozen.	"Dice Young"	iv:45
seven.	"Walk Away"	iv:25
viii.	"Lonely Is the Word"	5:51

2010 deluxe edition [ ]

Disc one contains the original album with no bonus tracks.

Disc two
No.	Championship	Original release	Length
1.	"Children of the Ocean"	"Neon Knights" alive B-side	6:24
2.	"Heaven and Hell"	"Dice Young" live B-side	7:19
three.	"Lady Evil"	Mono Edit, vii" Unmarried	3:54
four.	"Neon Knights"	Live, Hartford, CT, 1980	4:49
v.	"Children of the Ocean"	Live, Hartford, CT, 1980	v:58
6.	"Heaven and Hell"	Alive, Hartford, CT, 1980 & 12" single version	12:34
7.	"Die Immature"	Live, Hartford, CT, 1980	4:36

Singles [ ]

Year	Song	Chart positions
		Usa Singles Chart	Britain Singles Chart
1980
	"Neon Knights"	–	22
	"Children of the Ocean"	–	–
	"Dice Young"	–	41

Personnel [ ]

Black Sabbath

• Tony Iommi – guitar^[9]
• Geezer Butler – bass guitar^[9]
• Bill Ward – drums, percussion^[9]
• Ronnie James Dio – lead vocals^[9]

Additional performer

• Geoff Nicholls – keyboards^[ix]

Production

• Produced and engineered past Martin Birch^[9]
• Assistant engineer – Joe "C" Foglia^[9]
• Equipment: Graham Wright and Mickey Balla^[nine]
• Remastered past Dan Hersch (2008 reissue)

• Album comprehend art Smoking Angels by Lynn Curlee^[9]
• Back cover illustration by Harry Carmean^[9]
• Art direction past Richard Seireeni^[9]

Release history [ ]

Region	Date	Label
United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland	1980	Vertigo Records
U.s.a.	1980	Warner Bros. Records
United Kingdom	1996	Castle Communications
United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland	2004	Sanctuary Records
United states of america	2008	Rhino Records

Covers [ ]

• Queensrÿche covered "Neon Knights" on their 2007 album Accept Cover .
• Iron Savior covered "Neon Knights" on their 1998 album, Unification .
• "Heaven and Hell" was covered by American doom metal band Solitude Aeturnus on their album Adagio, and by San Diego-based band Benedictum on their debut anthology, Uncreation (which also featured a encompass of Blackness Sabbath'southward "The Mob Rules").
• "Heaven and Hell" is briefly covered acoustically by Tenacious D for Dio'due south "Push button" music video. At the beginning of the video, Jack Black and Kyle Gass are shown continuing on a sidewalk busking and singing "Heaven and Hell" with a few alternating lyrics. They stop when Dio walks up to them and tells them that he'll pay them if they would simply play some Tenacious D songs.
• Jørn Lande covers "Alone Is the Word" on his album Unlocking the Past .
• Stryper covered "Heaven and Hell" on their 2011 album, The Covering.
• Post-obit Dio'due south death in 2010, Machine Head'south Robb Flynn recorded an acoustic version of "Die Young".
• The heavy metal band Manowar covered "Heaven and Hell" on the 2010 anthology Magic: A Tribute to Ronnie James Dio .

References [ ]

1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named all
2. ↑ ^{two.0 2.1 2.two 2.three 2.4 2.5} Iommi, Tony (2011). Iron Man: My Journey Through Sky and Hell with Black Sabbath. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0306819551.
3. ↑ ^{three.0 3.1 3.ii three.3 3.4 3.5 3.half-dozen 3.7} Hotten, Jon. The Dio Years. Retrieved on xiii June 2013.
4. ↑ The Atomic number 26 Man Speaks. black-sabbath.com (March 1996). Retrieved on xiv September 2011.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.i} Dome, Malcolm (1 October 2009). Craig Gruber: 'I Played On The Heaven & Hell Album'. Archetype Rock Magazine. Retrieved on thirteen June 2013.
6. ↑ Brien, Jeb (producer/manager); Hardiman, Monica (producer/director) (1999), Black Sabbath: the Last Supper  ( Script error: No such module "Separated entries". ) , Automatic Productions, <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218847/>
7. ↑ Fourth dimension-Life Books: This Fabulous Century 1920–1930, pg. 200
8. ↑ Black Sabbath Online (www.black-sabbath.com/2008/12/lynn curlee interview)
9. ↑ ^{9.00 nine.01 9.02 9.03 ix.04 9.05 ix.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.ten ix.11 9.12} (1980) Sky and Hell (CD) anthology notes. Warner Bros. Records, Inc., 2–3.
10. ↑ "Heaven and Hell: Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums" at AllMusic. Retrieved xxx January 2009.
11. ↑ Welte, Jim (22 Apr 2008). Legends align for Metal Masters Tour. MP3.com. Archived from the original on 24 April 2008. Retrieved on 23 April 2008.

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