- HEAVEN AND HELL:
- Ronnie James Dio (vocals)
- Tony Iommi (guitar)
- Geezer Butler (bass)
- Vinnie Appice (drums)
- Produced by: Ronnie james Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler
- Engineered by: tbd
- Mixed by : tbd
- Mastered by: tbd
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HEAVEN AND HELL - The Devil You KnowUS Release : RHI518862 STOCK STATUS: IN STOCK - ships in 1 day |
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| With Ronnie James Dio up front and Vinny Appice in back, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler express a very different side of their musical personalities than they ever did with Ozzy Osbourne on vocals and Bill Ward on drums in Black Sabbath. When Dio joined Sabbath in 1980 the group was reinvented as a heavy metal juggernaut. While Iommi's riffs remained crushingly heavy, the rhythms got faster and the lyrics became about abstract symbolism and myth-making. These differences became more stark with each album (Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules, and 1992's reunion disc Dehumanizer), and now, The Devil You Know confirms once and for all this lineup's unique take on the genre it helped invent. This is a heavier album than any of its three predecessors; whether it's due to the bandmembers' advancing age or the influence of anxieties felt throughout the world outside the studio, it's the closest in spirit to the first two Black Sabbath albums, themselves forged in the psychic darkness that was the tail end of the 1960s. While the Osbourne-fronted and Dio-fronted versions of Black Sabbath are, again, very different bands, this is an album that matches its moment every bit as perfectly as Paranoid did back in 1970. | |
