HEAVEN AND HELL To Play Only DIO-Era BLACK SABBATH Songs On Tour

[Catman_3]

Jan. 18, 2007

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, plus drummer Vinny Appice (DIO, BLACK SABBATH) — has confirmed to TotalRock that it will only be playing songs from the Dio era of BLACK SABBATH on its upcoming world tour. The group will put together its live show from the "Heaven And Hell", "Mob Rules" and "Dehumanizer" albums, plus three new songs written and recorded for the upcoming compilation album "Black Sabbath: The Dio Years".

HEAVEN AND HELL's world tour will kick off March 11 in Vancouver, British Columbia and will play at least ten shows across Canada, including Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg and London. An exclusive New York City show has also been scheduled but has yet to be announced. DOWN — the acclaimed New Orleans band featuring CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, drummer Jimmy Bower (EYEHATEGOD, SUPERJOINT RITUAL guitarist), bassist Rex Brown (ex-PANTERA), guitarist Kirk Windstein (CROWBAR), and vocalist Philip Anselmo (SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ex-PANTERA) — will be the opening act for at least 10 of the dates. Then HEAVEN AND HELL will likely play South America, Japan, Korea, Australia and Europe before returning to North America for a U.S. tour in August or September.

HEAVEN AND HELL tour dates so far:

Mar. 11 - Vancouver, B.C. @ Pacific Coliseum
Mar. 13 - Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place
Mar. 14 - Calgary, AB @ Saddledome
Mar. 16 - Regina, SK @ Brandt Centre
Mar. 18 - Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre
Mar. 20 - Sault St. Marie, ON @ Steelback Centre
Mar. 22 - Toronto, ONT @ Air Canada Centre
Mar. 24 - London, ONT @ John Labatt Centre
Mar. 26 - Montreal, QUE @ Bell Centre
Mar. 27 - Quebec City, QUE @ Colisee Pepsi Arena
Mar. 28 - Ottawa, ONT @ Civic Centre
Jun 6-9 - Sölvesborg, SWE @ Sweden Rock
Jun. 09 - Tampere, FIN @ Sauna Open Air
Jun. 10 - Helsinki, FIN @ Jäähallissa
Jun. 22-23 – Balingen, GER @ Bang Your Head!!!

The upcoming Dio-era BLACK SABBATH anthology, "Black Sabbath: The Dio Years", will feature three new songs ("Shadow of the Wind", "Devil Cries" and "Ear in the Wall"), and is tentatively due on April 3 via Rhino.

In a recent interview with Revolver magazine, Ronnie James Dio and Tony Iommi were asked if fans could expect a HEAVEN AND HELL album in the future. "Well, I'm not going to give up the DIO band," Ronnie said. "And I think touring for a year with this band will be long enough. But I would hope that we'll still be speaking to each other after that and that some other plans might be able to be made." "At this point, nothing is written in stone," Iommi added. "Anything could happen."
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[nonhosonno]

ONLY Dio-Sabb material??!!

THAT is the kind of sh!t I wanna hear. I'm there like the hair on a bare mare. This is going to kick so much bootay.

[Deathstroke]

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[Deathstroke]

Check out this link for a bunch of live video clips of the Heaven & Hell show in Edmonton.

[mattx110]

when i tell people "i hate that boring depressed metal crap with the yelling and idiocy" i don't mean this. just wish i were in helsinki...

[Deathstroke]

The Hanging With Heaven and Hell VH1 Classic program air dates

[Clint Barton]

Good info! Thanks. Geezer Butler and Buck Dharma would be proud. ;)

[ghostrider666]

I am SOOOoooo psyched I have a ticket to the show in NYC!

[Deathstroke]

Then you'll like this CD/DVD news that came out this week.

News Link

[Deathstroke]

The next US leg of the Heaven & Hell tour will feature Alice Cooper and Queensryche opening up. Rob Zombie was originally reported to be in the Cooper slot, no word on the change in acts.

[Rattlehead]

I don't see why they would play any Ozzy era songs anyways. You've had plenty of oppotunities to hear Ozzy himself sing those songs with Black Sabbath since the Reunion tour. Hearing Dio sing his songs with them is something fresh and new. I rank the Dio albums right up there with the Ozzy era stuff, and Heaven and Hell is a Top 5 album from them.