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Post by Mean Machine on Sept 28, 2006 14:09:48 GMT 10
RONNIE JAMES DIO To Reunite With TONY IOMMI, GEEZER BUTLER And BILL WARD Under The Banner HEAVEN & HELL Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 12:27:57 Even though their respective managements have not officially released any information, Rafabasa webzine in Madrid, Spain is reporting exclusively that starting in June, 2007 there will be a reunion tour of a group going by the name HEAVEN & HELL. At this time, there are no dates confirmed, but the tour booking agent is offering the band to the promoters of the most important heavy metal festivals taking place next year. Under the name Heaven & Hell you will find TONY IOMMI, RONNIE JAMES DIO, GEEZER BUTLER and BILL WARD. Evidently if everything is confirmed, they will be playing a set consisting of music from every single CD that Ronnie James Dio performed with BLACK SABBATH, to include Heaven & Hell, Mob Rules, Live Evil and Dehumanizer. The reunion cannot tour under the name Black Sabbath, or BLACK SABBATH WITH DIO, due to the fact that the copyright of the name is the property of OZZY OSBOURNE and his wife/manager Sharon Osbourne. Stay tuned for further updates on this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- well its not official but my fingers are crossed that it happens. im a massive fan of the Dio era sabbath. Heaven and Hell is brilliant! as is Mob Rules. www.bravewords.com/news/51955 <-- theres a link to the article |
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Post by Sands Of Time on Sept 28, 2006 15:23:28 GMT 10
F#@k yeah!
All hail Dio!!!!!
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Post by demonizer on Sept 28, 2006 15:28:52 GMT 10
So Sharon is in charge of Sabbath which is why they're going under the name 'heaven and hell'... i guess it's a classic 'no homers club' situation (that wont make sense really but i can explain). This is totally F**king awesome news, Dio stuff with sabbath is some of the best metal ever!
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Post by Wrathchild on Sept 28, 2006 20:23:09 GMT 10
F#@k yeah! All hail Dio!!!!!  Oh yeah DIO rocks  |
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Post by skrabsta on Sept 28, 2006 21:45:11 GMT 10
dIO ERA SABBATH IS THE WORST ERA OF SABBATH - WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE RECENT REUINION WITH OZZY ( sorry bout the caps )
Sabbath should do a reunion with Ian Gillan!!!!
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Post by =Arise= on Sept 29, 2006 5:16:03 GMT 10
So you hate dio era sabbath, Somewhere in time, The lord of the rings,.....damn..... another tick in the crap box for you mate  haha |
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Post by skrabsta on Sept 29, 2006 6:04:05 GMT 10
So you hate dio era sabbath, Somewhere in time, The lord of the rings,.....damn..... another tick in the crap box for you mate haha i dont hat lord of the rings - just found the movies really boring, im sure the books are good, but im not going to find out co i cbf reading them! I hate dio in general, not just dio era sabbath. to be honest, Im not a real big fan of any sabbath period at the moment, my like for the band comes and goes. |
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Post by Mr Damage on Sept 29, 2006 16:43:59 GMT 10
Awesome news i must say. Interesting that Bill Ward is Drumming & not Vinny Appice considering Bill only played on one of the Dio era albums.
*Note* Tony Iommi owns the rights to the name "Black Sabbath" & it seems they are going with Heaven & Hell for artistic reasons not legal ones....
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Post by Mean Machine on Oct 26, 2006 16:20:58 GMT 10
from blabbermouth:
A representative for BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi has confirmed that the highly anticipated and much-rumored reunion of Iommi, Ronnie James Dio, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward appears to be shaping up and taking a new form. After various promoters have approached the former SABBATH bandmates' respective representatives, the guys have started taking all of this very seriously, as they have aparently wanted to reunite for some time now. It looks as if the new shape may be that of HEAVEN AND HELL — that is the moniker that the band is likely to use on their new venture. If all goes well, HEAVEN AND HELL should be hitting the road in early 2007.
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Post by demonizer on Oct 26, 2006 16:40:32 GMT 10
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Post by Mr Damage on Nov 24, 2006 18:33:15 GMT 10
The latest news from blabbermouth.......
Reliable sources have informed BLABBERMOUTH.NET that drummer Vinny Appice (DIO, BLACK SABBATH) is currently in the U.K laying down drums on the two new tracks that will be included on BLACK SABBATH's forthcoming box set, "Black Sabbath: The Dio Years". In addition, Appice will be manning the drums on the upcoming 2007 tour by HEAVEN AND HELL — the new band featuring legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) alongside original BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler. Founding SABBATH member/drummer Bill Ward, who was originally announced as being part of the HEAVEN AND HELL lineup, will apparently not take part in the group's upcoming trek.
Appice, 49, joined BLACK SABBATH in 1980, and appeared on the albums "Mob Rules" (1981) and the album recorded on that tour, "Live Evil" (1983). In late 1982, before "Live Evil" even hit the shelves, he left SABBATH with vocalist Ronnie James Dio and formed the band DIO. He appeared on the DIO albums "Holy Diver" (1983), "The Last in Line" (1984), "Sacred Heart" (1985), "Intermission" (1986), and "Dream Evil" (1987). In 1992 Appice returned to BLACK SABBATH (with Ronnie James Dio) for the "Dehumanizer" album and tour.
As previously reported, Dio recently revealed to Classic Rock magazine that HEAVEN AND HELL will likely headline next year's Monsters of Rock festival.
Monsters of Rock returned to the U.K. festival scene at Milton Keynes Bowl this past summer, with DEEP PURPLE as headliners. Now it looks like it will return in 2007, with HEAVEN AND HELL on the bill.
The following is a brief interview Classic Rock conducted with Dio at the Nov. 6, 2006 Classic Rock Roll of Honour event in London:
Classic Rock: Speaking of Tony Iommi, there are of course rumors that you will be reuniting with him, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward as HEAVEN AND HELL next year.
Ronnie: They're absolutely true. We'll probably be doing a year of touring together. And it's looking like you'll see us at the Monsters of Rock festival, then shows in America. And after that we'll come back to the U.K. for eight or nine more shows.
Classic Rock: That's amazing news. More amazing still was that Ozzy Osbourne wished you well with HEAVEN AND HELL.
Ronnie: Yes, he did. Bless Ozzy. He's a special, special person. He's one of the creators of heavy metal music. He deserves wondrous applause, he's a wonderful man and I hope he and Sharon's lives are very, very happy.
BLACK SABBATH frontman Ozzy Osbourne recently issued a statement that a SABBATH tour with Osbourne, Iommi, Butler and Ward will kick off late 2007 to coincide with the group's first new studio album featuring that lineup since 1978's "Never Say Die!"
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Post by Sands Of Time on Nov 25, 2006 15:29:41 GMT 10
Awesome! I'm a big fan of Vinnie Appice's drum sound. Maybe after the world tour (which i hope includes Australia) Vinnie will jump back to where he belongs in Dio.
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Post by Sands Of Time on Nov 25, 2006 15:32:28 GMT 10
Oh yeah and they forgot to include that he also drummed on Dio's Strange Highways and Angry Machines.
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Post by Mean Machine on Dec 16, 2006 10:46:15 GMT 10
Jon Wiederhorn of MTV.com recently conducted an interview with Ronnie James Dio about the upcoming BLACK SABBATH best-of album, "Black Sabbath: The Dio Years", and the world tour alongside guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Vinny Appice under the band name HEAVEN AND HELL.
"It's going to be a lot of fun to get back in front of fans and perform these songs again," Dio said. "I think this is something a lot of people have been waiting a long time for."
According to Dio, the HEAVEN AND HELL tour will kick off in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 3 and play at least seven shows across Canada, ending in Toronto. Then the band will likely play South America, Japan, Korea, Australia and Europe before returning to North America for a U.S. tour in August or September.
Though Dio is thrilled to be able to revisit his past with SABBATH, he hasn't lain awake at night longing for a reunion. And while Iommi and Butler have wondered over the years what it would be like to play again with Dio, it was Warner Music subsidiary Rhino Records that first brought up the idea by making plans to release "The Dio Years". The label contacted Iommi's manager and said it would like to include some previously unreleased songs. Since there was nothing worthwhile in the vault that hadn't been used, Iommi contacted Dio and suggested they consider getting together to write some new material.
"About four months ago, I went over to England to Tony's house, where he has a studio," Dio said. "We started to work together, and it was really so enjoyable. After long spaces of time not working with people, you forget how good they are or how much you liked being around them."
The band isn't yet ready to announce the titles of the three new songs, but that doesn't mean Dio isn't eager to talk about them. One, he says, will be slow and doomy, the second will be midtempo and the third will be a scorcher.
"They're the perfect blend, [given] the limitations of only doing three tracks," he said. "I feel like we covered all the bases, and it's all guitar, bass, drums and voice. There are no keyboards, and it sounds excellent. And the lyrics are pretty weird. Whenever I get back with SABBATH, I seem to have this leash taken off me and I can write as weird as I want to."
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Post by demonizer on Dec 16, 2006 11:06:15 GMT 10
If this rumor follows through, I think this is going to be another Gamma Ray...
*starts doing happy dance*
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Oh yeah DIO rocks 
