Heaven and Hell signed concert flyer Black Sabbath

Authentic Heaven and Hell signed concert flyer Black Sabbath. Signed in silver marker by Tony Iommi, Ronnie James Dio and Vinnie Appice. Flyer has been stuck onto card, flyer dimensions are: 21cm x 15cm, full item: 30cm x 21cm.

 

 

Heaven & Hell was a British-American heavy metal band active from 2006 to 2010. The band was a collaboration between Black Sabbath autographs founding members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler and former Black Sabbath and Dio members Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice. The band’s name taken from the title of the first Black Sabbath album to feature Dio after the band’s original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne fired in 1979.

The four members of Heaven & Hell recorded and toured together as Black Sabbath from 1980 to 1982, and again from 1991 to 1992. After they reunited to record three new songs for the 2007 compilation album, Black Sabbath. The Dio Years, they embarked on a 2007–2008 tour. The decision to call the touring group Heaven & Hell was made to differentiate the project from the Ozzy Osbourne-led Black Sabbath lineup which had reformed and was also recording and touring periodically. According to Iommi, the name change made to avoid confusion between the two different lineups of Black Sabbath. So that fans at concerts “would not expect to hear ‘Iron Man’ and ‘War Pigs’ and all that; it’s none of the old stuff, it’s none of the Ozzy period. It’s all Dio stuff. So by calling ourselves Heaven & Hell, it’s revisiting that period.”

The group disbanded following Dio’s death from stomach cancer in 2010

 

 

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Initially, the members had stated that their 2007 tour was a one-off. Had expressed their intentions to go their separate ways at its conclusion. Dio planned to return to his eponymous band to produce Magica II and Magica III, sequels to their 2000 album Magica, while Appice would continue with his project 3 Legged Dogg. However, in a March 2007 interview; Dio and Iommi stated that while both tied to separate contractual commitments in 2008. Neither would discount the possibility of future collaborations; six months later. The band members announced their decision to continue their collaboration and record and release a new album. In August, they took part in the Metal Masters Tour alongside Judas Priest, Motörhead and Testament.

Additionally, On 28 April 2009, the band released the studio album The Devil You Know, containing the single “Bible Black”. The subsequent promotional tour, the Bible Black Tour; spanned from 5 May to 29 August and featured supporting act Coheed and Cambria. It saw stops at the Sweden Rock Festival, the Hellfest in France. The Wâldrock Festival in the Netherlands, the Wacken Open Air and the Sonisphere Festival in Knebworth, UK. The tour’s final show in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA would prove to be Dio’s final public performance.