HEAVEN AND HELL - Athens, Oulu Tour Dates Announced

March 26, 2009, 15 years ago

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HEAVEN AND HELL - the legendary band featuring BLACK SABBATH icons Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) - have confirmed two more July live dates in Europe:

July 25 in Oulu, Finland at Q Stock Festival and July 27 in Athens, Greece at Rocking Athens Festival 2009, Olympic Fencing Hall. The band's updated itinerary is below.

Heaven & Hell's new single 'Bible Black' can be heard here.

'Bible Black' is taken from Heaven & Hell's anxiously-awaited new album, The Devil You Know, due out on April 28th via Rhino.

One of the first songs written for the album, singer Ronnie James Dio says it established a tone for the rest of the album. "When you start off with a blockbuster like that, it makes the rest of the album so much easier because it gives you a benchmark to measure the other songs against."

The band - also featuring BLACK SABBATH legends Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice - took less than three weeks to finish the album, with most of the songs only needing a couple of takes. "It was good to play them live in the studio. It keeps you on edge," Iommi says. "I mean, somewhere along the line we were gonna have to play them live; might as well start in the studio." Butler adds: "We've learned from the past that you can kill a song doing it over and over. The first Sabbath albums were done in two or three days. Technically they weren't great, but vibe-wise they were great. If you capture that feeling, that's all you need."

The Devil You Know tracklisting: 'Atom & Evil', 'Fear', 'Bible Black', 'Double The Pain', 'Rock & Roll Angel', 'The Turn Of The Screw', 'Eating The Cannibals', 'Follow The Tears', 'Neverwhere', 'Breaking into Heaven'.

The Devil You Know was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales last winter, the same place Black Sabbath used 17 years earlier to record their last album, Dehumanizer.

May

5 - Bogota, Colombia
7 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Luna Park
8 - Santiago, Chile - Movistar Arena
10 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Chevrolet Hall
13 - Brasilia, Brazil - Ginadsio Nilson Nelson
15 - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Credicard Hall
16 - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Credicard Hall
17 - Brazil, Rio de Janeiro - Citibank Hall Rio
30 - Moscow, Russia - B-1
31 - Moscow, Russia - B-1

June

1 - St. Petersburg, Russia - New Arena
2 - Helsinki, Finland - Icehall
4 - Oslo, Norway - Spektrum
6 - Solvesborg, Sweden - Sweden Rock Festival
8 - Giessen, Germany - Hessenhallen *
9 - Berlin, Germany - Zitadelle *
10 - Bamburg, Germany - Jakoarena *
13 - Bergum, Holland, - Waldrock Festival
14 - Karlsruhe, Germany - Europahalle *
16 - Bonn, Germany - Museumplatz *
17 - Zurich, Switzerland - Volkshaus
19 - Clisson, France - Hellfest
26 - Dessel Belgium - Graspop
27 - Milan, Italy - Gods of Metal

July

25 - Oulu, Finland – Q Stock Festival
27 - Athens, Greece – Rocking Athens Festival 2009, Olympic Fencing Hall
30 - Wacken, Germany - Wacken Open Air

(* with AXEL RUDI PELL)


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