![]() ![]() The Dio Years proves that during his brief time with the band, Dio did help Sabbath make music that could hold its own with some of the classic lineup's finest moments. True, the Dio years didn't last all that long - the singer joined in 1980 for Heaven & Hell, then lasted through one more studio album, the following year's Mob Rules, before departing under a shroud of controversy after 1982's botched live album Live Evil - but Dio had a powerful impact upon the band and its legacy these were the last years that Sabbath exerted pull as an active band, and after his departure they stumbled through various singers over the next decade before intermittently reuniting with Ozzy in the '90s. Countless compilations over the years have preserved the initial part of the story line - celebrating the innovations of the first four albums with a near fetishistic quality - but there has never been a good retrospective concerning the Dio years until Rhino released the aptly titled The Dio Years in early 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2011.The original lineup of Black Sabbath possesses such a mythic quality that it's easy to overlook how far they slid by the time Ozzy Osbourne up and left the band.or how far they rebounded after they hired Rainbow singer Ronnie James Dio as his replacement. ^ " The Dio Years: Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles" at AllMusic.^ " The Dio Years: Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums" at AllMusic."Half Of Black Sabbath Reunite With Dio Tour Begins In March". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. "Tony Iommi Reveals The New BLACK SABBATH Tracks!". Archived from the original on 27 April 2012. ![]() Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. "Black Sabbath: The Dio Years > Review" at AllMusic. The four songs, recorded live in 1981 during Black Sabbath's "Mob Rules Tour" are "Neon Knights", "The Mob Rules", " Children of the Grave", and "Voodoo".Īll songs were written by Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, except where noted. This CD, only to be in print for a limited time, features four songs from the Live at Hammersmith Odeon limited edition live album recently released by Black Sabbath. ![]() Dio and Iommi decided that the working partnership they had achieved in recording the 3 new songs would not be wasted, so they recorded The Devil You Know.īefore the Heaven & Hell tour of the UK in November 2007, a special edition release of The Dio Years was released on 5 November, Black Sabbath: The Dio Years Tour Edition, to commemorate the tour. On the week of 13 March 2007, it became available for download at all digital outlets.Īfter the recording was completed the members decided to tour under the moniker Heaven & Hell. ![]() Rhino Records subsequently made the track available (for preview only) on 26 February 2007. On 23 February 2007, both Eddie Trunk and Sirius Satellite Radio unveiled the song "The Devil Cried" from the upcoming album. "The Devil Cried" was released as a single on 13 March 2007. In an interview conducted by Martin Popoff, Tony Iommi revealed that in fact three tracks were recorded: "Shadow of the Wind" (a slow tune), "The Devil Cried" (a mid-tempo rocker) and "Ear in the Wall" (a fast song), therefore changing the original plan for two new songs to accommodate all three tracks in the compilation. This second idea was put aside, eventually emerging as The Rules of Hell box set released in the summer of 2008. This idea was eventually scrapped, and another box set was planned only to feature the four albums recorded from the Dio era of the band. Ozzy Osbourne period, starting from Heaven and Hell to The Eternal Idol. It was reported that the collection was first conceived of as a box set, in the vein of Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970–1978), containing all of the group's albums released from their It also contains three songs that were recorded in 2007: "The Devil Cried", "Shadow of the Wind", and "Ear in the Wall". The CD contains remastered tracks taken from the studio albums Heaven and Hell (1980), Mob Rules (1981), and Dehumanizer (1992), as well as a live version of the song " Children of the Sea" taken from the live album Live Evil (1982). Black Sabbath: The Dio Years is a 2007 compilation CD of material recorded by Black Sabbath during vocalist Ronnie James Dio's tenure in the band. ![]()
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