Upon its release, Heaven and Hell was one of Black Sabbath's more commercially successful albums, bringing the group into the '80s with a renewed spirit and a coat of production polish that saved them from the brink of demise they'd been teetering on. Dabbling with synthesizers on "Die Young" and the cinematic ending of "Lonely Is the Word" met with anthemic rock riffing on "Walk Away," all of which successfully expanded the band's range in ways that had flopped on their late-'70s albums. La canción fue la primera aportación de uno de los discos más brutales de la historia del rock, Heaven & Hell, una obra maestra que combinó la tremenda potencia de Sabbath con la anteriormente mencionada capacidad de escritura de Dio, así como también, por supuesto, su increíble talento, presencia y voz. It features classics including the anthem 'Neon Knights.' This remastered album features in-depth liner notes including new band interviews. "Children of the Sea" is a moody and wandering number that continues the classically informed songwriting that came in and out of focus on various earlier Sabbath tracks, and the epic title track builds to a full-boil rocker before winding down to an outro of eerie classical guitar as the dust settles. Originally released in 1980, Heaven And Hell is regarded as one of Sabbath's all-time best. The chugging riffing of opener "Neon Knights" taps into the forward motion of "Paranoid," but replaces the confusion and depravity of that unhappy anthem with excited, fantastical lyrics and Dio's dynamic vocals. In many ways, Heaven and Hell found a Sabbath that was almost unrecognizable from the form they began in just over a decade earlier, but echoes of their past connected with a sense of rejuvenation for some of their strongest material since 1973's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. The stylistic shift from heaviness to more intricate hard rock that had floundered on Osbourne-led albums like Never Say Die seemed perfectly fitted for Dio's driving vocals, with tracks like the high-tempo "Wishing Well" pushed forward by his soaring self-harmonizing and Geezer Butler's distinctive bass playing rolling strongly along. Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio stepped in, transforming the group's sound completely by replacing Osbourne's idiosyncratic evil whine with a vocal style that was both more theatrical and technically controlled. After straying from the sludgy intensity of their early records for a string of increasingly experimental and commercially underperforming releases, original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne left the band during the first round of recording sessions for ninth album Heaven and Hell. Heaven and Hell (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 12/31/81) 14:30 Ap19 Songs, 1 hour, 51 minutes 2021 Warner Records Inc., a Warner Music Group Company. By the end of the '70s, drug abuse and interpersonal turmoil had completely unraveled Black Sabbath.
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