Heaven and Hell
| Black Sabbath
Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell is the ninth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released on 25 April 1980. It is the first Black Sabbath album to feature vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who replaced original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne in 1979. Produced by Martin Birch, the album was a commercial success, particularly in the United States, where it reached number 28 on the Billboard 200 chart, and was certified platinum for 1 million sales in the United States alone. In the band's native country, it sold well enough to be certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry in April 1982.-"Wikipedia"
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Metal Archive
Black Sabbath changed its style and went away from both the slow-paced gloomy doom metal of the early years and the more psychedelic hard rock style of the late seventies. Heaven and Hell is a brilliant example that change can be an enriching and positive thing.
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Louder Sound
Heaven And Hell is undeniably one of the all-time great heavy metal albums. And when Geezer Butler spoke to Classic Rock in 2013, he was unequivocal. “Heaven And Hell,” he said, “is as good as the first six albums.”
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Sputnik Music
A thematically, lyrically, vocally and instrumentally amazing album, Heaven and Hell was certainly a great way to start the 80s.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
not even the rare peaks and frequent valleys they experienced during the intervening years could erase the memory of Heaven and Hell and its astonishing creative achievements. Heavy metal heaven, pure and simple.
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Drowned in Sound
well-crafted, efficient and spirited crowd-pleasers which represent Dio's finest hour and demonstrate Sabbath's remarkable ability to bounce back from apparently dire misfortune. Great riffs, too.
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NME
They do their best to distance themselves from Actual Sabbath, but too often it’s by slouching through their Satanic netherworld, Dio’s cabaret bludgeoned down by lurching riffs and over-egged orchestration.
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Infrared Magazine
Heaven & Hell is more diverse than anything Sabbath released during the Ozzy years. One listen through immediately tells the listener that, regardless of singing style, there’s no way possible that Ozzy could have provided vocals for this album.
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Consequence of Sound
This is a good record without a doubt, but too much unnecessary used elements cloud it overall to be a straight shot through one entire listen. For what it’s worth, throw some horns up for it as this will quench thirsty metal fans.
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