La provoc a ses limites.

Ils viennent de rentrer en studio :

HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — has entered Rockfield studios in Wales, England to begin recording its new album, the group's first since SABBATH's "Dehumanizer" (which was also recorded at Rockfield) in 1992. An early 2009 release via Rhino Records is expected.

Two years ago, Dio, Iommi, Butler and Appice reunited to record a trio of new songs for Rhino's "Black Sabbath: The Dio Years" before launching a highly anticipated and greatly acclaimed world tour under their new moniker HEAVEN AND HELL. Revitalized by the reunion, the lineup is back in the studio now recording the first-ever full-length studio album from HEAVEN AND HELL. To whet the fans' appetites for the new album, HEAVEN AND HELL returned to the road this past summer for a short stint on the Metal Masters Tour, a month-long North American trek with JUDAS PRIEST, MOTÖRHEAD, and TESTAMENT.

Regarding the band's decision to continue to operate as HEAVEN AND HELL rather than BLACK SABBATH, Iommi told Billboard.com earlier this year, "It really is BLACK SABBATH, whatever we do. We just choose to go out as HEAVEN AND HELL so everyone knows what they're getting [and] so people won't expect to hear 'Iron Man' and all those songs. We've done them for so many years, it's nice to do just all the stuff with did with Ronnie again."

HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi (guitar), Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — has set "The Devil You Know" as the title of its debut album, due on April 28 via Rhino. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Bible Black", "Rock & Roll Angel", "Breaking Into Heaven", "Atom & Evil" and "Eating the Cannibals". The LP was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales, U.K. where the 1992 SABBATH album "Dehumanizer" was also tracked.

"Everyone had so much fun playing together that we didn't want it to end," says the group. "We started writing together and the songs started flowing like we never stopped. We wound up writing and recording an album that stands up to anything we've ever done. We're really proud of the music and excited for people to hear it."

"Each of us submitted a CD of our ideas, and we narrowed it down from there," Iommi told Classic Rock. "In some ways it was like picking up where we'd left off with 'Dehumanizer'."

In a recent interview with Revolver magazine, Ronnie James Dio described the material on the HEAVEN AND HELL album as "a real cross-section of everything we've done, from 'Heaven and Hell' through 'Mob Rules' and 'Dehumanizer'. I think there's a lot of 'Dehumanizer' in it, but a lot of other things, too, a real good blend of what this band has represented."

joie ! j'attends ça comme le messie

Le dernier paragraphe ne me rassure pas du tout.

Dehumanizer était assez moyen, pataud, et à mon avis moins bon que son prédecesseur sans Dio : Tyr.

Les inédits de la compil Dio Years semblait être des chutes de studio de Dehumanizer, bref rien de bien intéressant (quoique j'ai quand même bien aimé le morceau qui speed un peu, me souviens plus du titre).

Dio (en solo) est finit depuis des années. J'avais cru à un sursaut avec Killing the dragon mais ça n'a pas été confirmé par le léthargique Master of the moon. Je comprend d'ailleurs qu'il ait rejoint Iommi (avec qui il était pourtant bien brouillé).

Bref, j'en attends pas grand chose, mais évidemment une bonne surprise ça serait très cool. J'aurais cependant largement préféré un retour de Ozzy dans le Sab, ce dernier ayant sorti un Black Rain plutôt sympathique et sentant nettement moins le formol.

Pareil, excellent album !

Par contre, j'ai peu d'espoir pour un bon nouvel album, l'album "heaven And Hell" est pour moi d'assez loin mon disque préféré de Dio (Devant même les albums de Rainbow) mais je crois que tout était réuni à l'époque pour motiver le groupe à cartonner pour rivaliser avec Ozzy (on peut dire la même chose la même chose avec "Blizzard"). Les choses sont différentes maintenant...

On verra.

Mais je sens que je vais pleurer si c'est comme les derniers albums de certains autres "grands groupes".

According to Black-Sabbath.com, the track listing for "The Devil You Know", the forthcoming debut album from HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi (guitar), Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — will be as follows:

01. Atom & Evil
02. Fear
03. Bible Black
04. Double the Pain
05. Rock & Roll Angel
06. The Turn of the Screw
07. Eating the Cannibals
08. Follow the Tears
09. Neverwhere
10. Breaking into Heaven

Allez, plus que deux mois.
Tout le monde s'en fout mais c'est l'album que j'ai le plus attendu et redouté depuis fort longtemps. (Bien plus que le PRIEST, le GUNS et le METALLICA)

c'est un peu bourrin pour du black sabbath comme couv ...

bah c'est toujours mieux que ce truc :

J'ai hâte de la sortie de cet album de Heaven And Hell. J'espère que ce sera au moins aussi bon que sur Dehumanizer.

La pochette en plus visible :



Le single sera Bible Black.

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.

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. "The band had gotten too good to just walk away," Dio says. "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."

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". 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. The highly anticipated set arrives on April 28 from Rhino for a suggested list price of $18.98 (physical) and $9.99 (digital).

It took less than three weeks to finish the album, with most of the songs only needing a couple of takes. "It was good to play them live in the studio. It keeps you on edge," Iommi says. "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. The first SABBATH albums were done in two or three days. Technically they weren't great, but vibe-wise they were great. If you capture that feeling, that's all you need."

"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. One of the first songs written for the album, Dio says it established a tone for the rest of the album. "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."

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. 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.

Je me demande ce que veulent dire le 25 et le 41 dans le petit cercle... des années peut-être ?

41 c'est l'âge de Black Sabbath, vu que le groupe s'est formé en 1968.
25 c'est peut-être le nombre d'années d'activité du groupe (entre le premier album et Forbidden).

J'aurai tendance à être d'accord pour le 41, c'est ce qui m'est venu à l'esprit également. Mais 25 ans d'activité ? Nan ça peut pas coller. 25 albums à la limite ça irait, mais non (18 studio, ça fait beaucoup de live et compile pour atteindre le compte)...

Ouais, y'a des chances, y'a 18 albums studio (en comptant Seventh Star) et 6 lives officiels, donc ça serait bien le 25eme.

C'est clairement la pochette la plus nulle depuis celle de Dehumanizer.

Maintenant, si comme en 1992, le contenu est aussi bien que le contenant est laid, il y a de quoi se réjouir.