![]() The album will also be released as double vinyl LP featuring a laser etched design and exclusive poster on May 12. 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. ![]() 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.ġ0. 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. “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.” One of the first songs written for the album, Dio says it established a tone for the rest of the album. “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. If you capture that feeling, that’s all you need.” Technically they weren’t great, but vibe-wise they were great. The first Sabbath albums were done in two or three days. “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. “It was good to play them live in the studio. It took less than three weeks to finish the album, with most of the songs only needing a couple of takes. The highly anticipated set arrives on April 28 from Rhino for a suggested list price of $18.98 (physical) and $9.99 (digital). 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. 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. “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.” “The band had gotten too good to just walk away,” Dio says. 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. 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. Their First in 17 Years, Features Epic First Single “Bible Black” Highly Anticipated New Album from Dio, Iommi, Butler, and Appice, HEAVEN & HELL INTRODUCES THE DEVIL YOU KNOW You can see that version in the images section below. There is an “alternate” version of the cover art that was only be for sale through Wal-Mart.This is a reference to the Bible passage Matthew 25:41, which says “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” On the cover art are the numbers 25 & 41.The Bible Black video was produced for the band, they didn’t have input into it.There was an animated music video for this produced. The first single for the album is “Bible Black”.The artwork was based off an image called “Satan”, by an artist from Norway named Per Oyvind Haagensen.The album was recorded in the same studio that 1992’s Dehumanizer was also recorded in.None were recorded until after the 2008 Metal Masters tour was over. ![]() The songs were written during late spring, early Summer 2008.The track Rock ‘n’ Roll Angel was known as Rock ‘n’ Roll Jesus before the album was released.Pre-release, the track “Breaking into Heaven” was described as a “slice of sloth-like majesty”.Cover Illustration: Per Oyvind Haagensen (Original version).Art Direction & Design: Masaki Koike at Phyx Design.Mastered by Steve Marcussen in Hollywood CA.Mixed at Total Access Recording Studios (Redondo Beach, CA).Mixed by Wyn Davis (with Mike Sutherland & Adam Arnold).Produced by Heaven & Hell (Dio/Iommi/Butler).
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