New Tour Dates & “Black Box 2” Announced

Today brings a major announcement from band management. I was just emailed a press release which folks will find very interesting. The entire press release is listed below, but I’ll get to the bullet points of the thing here: Tour announced: First up is a tour dubbed “The Metal Masters Tour”. This is an 18 […]

Heaven & Hell Artwork

I received this email awhile back from Sabbath fan Eric Goldberg, and it’s sat in the dark recesses of my inbox for ages. In going through email tonight, I saw it, and thought I’d bring it up now. Thanks Eric, and sorry for the delay. I’m not sure if you know or are interested, but […]

Black Sabbath: The Dio Years MVI Version now available

I got some info sent my way today for something I didn’t even know existed. It’s an MVI version of “Black Sabbath: The Dio Years”. Since I’ve never heard of this until today, I’ll copy straight from the Rhino website on the release. They describe it better than I could. :) I do have a […]

Black Box on Sale

Hard to believe that this April, it will have been four years since the rather awesome Black Box set came out. If you never got that, it’s a box set which contains all eight studio albums by the Ozzy Osbourne led incarnation of Black Sabbath, plus a DVD of some of the old Beat Club […]

Rock Band Downloadable Tracks

If you have the game Rock Band for the Xbox 360, there are now three downloadable Black Sabbath songs from Xbox Live available. The three songs are available either as a three pack, or individually. If you buy them as a pack, you save a few bucks over the individual prices. Anyway, the three songs […]

Radio City Music Hall Deluxe Edition Review

Well, folks who have been following the Heaven & Hell tour this year have known that a DVD and CD of the tour were released back in August. Around the same time orders were being taken for a “Deluxe Edition” package which Rhino was going to sell exclusively from their website. Time went on, and […]

New album with Dio Part II

A quick follow up. An interview surfaced on Komodo today where Ronnie Dio was asked about the new studio album with Black Sabbath Heaven & Hell. Ronnie confirms it too in the interview with this: Q: There has been talk of maybe a new studio album from Heaven & Hell next year. Is that something […]

Holy shit! New Heaven & Hell album in 2008!

This is a complete 100% about face from everything I’ve been told. Since this project was started, I’ve been told not to expect anything past the tour, which ends in November. It was all about Dio going to do a new Magica album, etc, etc, etc… Well, spin my nipple nuts and send me to […]

The Dio Years UK Tour Edition

It was brought to my attention that a “new release” is coming in the UK on November 5th. It’s “Black Sabbath: The Dio Years – UK Tour Edition”. This was the first I had heard of it, so I did some investigating, and a couple of emails to band management later, I have some details […]

Live at Radio City Music Hall Stuff

As we inch closer to the release of the Live at Radio City Music Hall CD/DVD’s, the promotional wheels have gotten going. Here’s a summary of the stuff I’ve been able to find out is happening: 1) Rhino/Rhapsody Free Album Stream: Rhino & Rhapsody have teamed up to provide a full album streaming copy of […]