HEAVEN & HELL - 'Bible Black' Video Now Online
April 27, 2009, 15 years ago
The video for 'Bible Black', the first single from HEAVEN & HELL’s highly anticipated new album The Devil You Know, made it's worldwide premiere Saturday night, April 25th, on VH1 Classic.
The animated clip, made it's exclusive online premier today via Yahoo! Music. Check it out below.
The 'Bible Black' video was produced by Joseph A. Russo II and James A. Fino from 23d Films, Inc. and was directed by Ben Ceccarelli. The epic song was one of the first songs written for the new album and finds the quartet of Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice in top form.
“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,” says Dio.Heaven & Hell began writing for The Devil You Know last year, first in England at Iommi’s home studio and later in Los Angeles at Dio’s studio.
“The band had gotten too good to just walk away,” Dio says. “We wanted to show people that we were still capable of giving them new music that measured up to what we’d done in the past.”
The Devil You Know tracklisting: 'Atom And Evil', 'Fear', 'Bible Black', 'Double The Pain', 'Rock And Roll Angel', 'The Turn Of The Screw', 'Eating The Cannibals', 'Follow The Tears', 'Neverwhere', 'Breaking Into Heaven.
As previously reported, Heaven & Hell guitar legend Tony Iommi will be featured guest on IRON MAIDEN singer BRUCE DICKINSON's BBC 6 Music Friday Rock Show on Friday, May 1st. The program had originally announced that the entire Heaven & Hell lineup - singer Ronnie James Dio, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Vinny Appice - would appear on the show. Further details can be found here.
