Black Sabbath-Heaven & Hell (1980)
Artist: Black Sabbath
Title: Heaven & Hell
Label: Warner Bros.
Format: CD
Cat #: 3372-2
Year of Release: 1980
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 80's CD
Listed Condition: VG+/VG+
Sell Date: 5/14/25
Sell Price: $9.14
Discogs Last Sold: 5/3/25 NM/NM $11.99
Low: $4.00
Median: $8.00
Average: $8.94
High: $15.00
Current low price: $9.98
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5
Have/Want: 99/149
Where Sold: Wood River, IL
Time it took to sell: 1 year 3 months
Where and When Bought: facebook $2 lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+
Sad To See It Go: No
With Dio's passing 15 years ago on the 16th, somebody wanted to get the original CD masters of Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules together. Both sounded great cranked up and I had a Rhino remaster laying around that I cranked also and didn't really notice that much difference. I thought I heard some bothersome synthy chimes in "Children Of The Sea" in the Rhino version but I heard them again in the early master and on the streaming version. I might need to listen to a vinyl copy sometime, but I bet I'll hear them there too.
That isn't to say this version of "Children Of The Sea" isn't perfect. The Live Evil one that became the radio hit in 1982 may very well be the ultimate version, but that doesn't make this one any less great. I always glossed over "Wishing Well," "Walk Away" and "Lonely Is The Word" but that doesn't make them any less awesome. Like Mob Rules, there are some tracks--in this case the title track, "Neon Knights" and "Die Young--that are so colossal that they would dwarf anything in it's wake.
Heaven & Hell is the first record post-Ozzy with Dio fresh off a long run with Rainbow. They had something to prove and sounded like it. More then Rainbow, this is the band that made Dio DIO and not just a great singer.
A bringer of Evil if you will.
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