A photo of what appears to be the final artwork 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) — has popped up online and can be viewed below.
"The Devil You Know" is scheduled for release on April 28 via
Rhino. The LP was recorded at
Rockfield Studios in Wales, U.K. where the 1992
SABBATH album
"Dehumanizer" was also tracked.
The track listing for the CD is as follows:
01.
Atom & Evil02.
Fear03.
Bible Black04.
Double the Pain05.
Rock & Roll Angel06.
The Turn of the Screw07.
Eating the Cannibals08.
Follow the Tears09.
Neverwhere10.
Breaking into Heaven"Everyone had so much fun playing together that we didn't want it to end," says the group in a press release. "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."
HEAVEN AND HELL will premier
"The Devil You Know" on the April 29 edition of the nationally syndicated radio show
"Rockline" with host
Bob Coburn at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET. An encore presentation of the show will air on May 4. Fans are encouraged to speak with
HEAVEN AND HELL by calling 1-800-344-ROCK (7625).
For more information, visit
RocklineRadio.com.
Three 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 returned to the studio to record the first-ever full-length studio album from
HEAVEN AND HELL. To whet the fans' appetites for the new album,
HEAVEN AND HELL hit the road last 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 last 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."
BLACK SABBATH's
"The Rules Of Hell" box set — which features all three of
SABBATH's
Dio-era studio releases (
"Heaven And Hell",
"Mob Rules",
"Dehumanizer") and its double live collection (
"Live Evil"), each remastered for the first time — sold around 2,650 copies in the United States in its first week of release back in July 2008, according to
Nielsen SoundScan.
"The Rules Of Hell" comes packaged in a deluxe slipcase with extensive liner notes featuring all new interviews with the band.
