Heaven And Hell

The first single from the album, entitled Bible Black is available for for download (in “Single Edit” format) or you can stream it from Heaven And Hell’s Myspace. I downloaded it from iTunes and I gotta say that I love it. Dio and the boys still have it in them. They keep it modern enough to still be relevant, yet still hold on to the roots of their sound. Dio and Sabbath fans alike are going to eat this up!

Track listing for the album is below. In case you’ve been under a rock for the last two years, Heaven And Hell is the pretty much the Ronnie James Dio fronted version of Black Sabbath with a different name; Tony Iommi on guitars, Geezer Butler on Bass and Vinny Appice on drums.

1. Atom And Evil
2. Fear
3. Bible Black
4. Double The Pain
5. Rock And Roll Angel
6. The Turn Of The Screw
7. Eating The Cannibals
8. Follow The Tears
9. Neverwhere
10. Breaking Into Heaven

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Geezer Butler issued the following statement at his official website:

Thank you all who came to see the Metal Masters tour. It was a pleasure touring with such great bands and friends – Judas Priest, Motorhead, and Testament, and their respective crews. It was great meeting everyone who came to the meet and greets after the shows.

Now back to reality.  As you may know from my web-site and lyrics, I am pro all life, not just unborn fetuses. I don’t understand people who say they are pro-life, but then support unnecessary wars and the disgusting slaughter of animals for sport.

I respect people’s freedom of religion, but I absolutely abhor hypocrites.  Which brings me to this horrific video of cowardly bastards in airplanes, shooting wolves for so called “sport”, and the hypocritical politician [she's supposed to be pro-life, remember], who allows this cowardly act to take place in her state.  I know lots of people who hunt, and I enjoy shooting at my local gun range, but I don’t know, nor would I want to know, anyone who gets pleasure from this disgraceful behavior.  God/Nature has created a beautiful earth, and populated it with beautiful creatures, and i believe that all life is miraculous.  Why do politicians [royals included] enjoy killing so much, and treating those miracles with such contempt?

Love and peace,
Geezer.

As far as abortion goes, I’m pro-choice. As far as cruelty to animals, I completely agree with him. I grew up in a family of 5 in a small town during tough times. My father hunted and trapped. Anything that my father or brother killed we always put to some use. Most of the time it was Deer or the occasional black bear that was killed for meat and the animals that were trapped were sold for fur. I never got into the hunting thing and I never liked the ones that did it to stroke their ego. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t support PETA 1 or 2. With that said, there is an ecological balance of nature that sometimes has to be evened out due to the fact that we, humans, screwed it up somehow. So then we have to go and play population control. It’s not a pretty game but sometimes it has to be done…but not the way it’s done in the video.

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“We’ve got about six or seven new songs,” Iommi reports, “and then we stopped to do this (The Metal Masters) tour. When we finish that, we’ll take a couple of weeks off, then carry on writing.”

The guitarist adds that he’s “really pleased” with what the group has come up with so far, describing the material as “really good, pretty powerful.” Heaven & Hell, which also includes drummer Vinnie Appice, has signed a deal with Rhino and hopes to have the album out “as soon as we can,” according to Iommi, most likely in 2009.

A lot of fans of the band’s live performance and album have been eagerly waiting for this and I can’t blame them. This collaboration with Dio and the former members of Black Sabbath have had a successful run with “Heaven And Hell Live From Radio City Music Hall” on DVD and CD, which left fans of Dio era Black Sabbath hungry for more…and they’ll get it!

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