The first Ronnie James Dio-fronted era of Black Sabbath was a remarkable rebound for a group that had lost direction at the end of the 1970s. Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules rebooted the Sabbath sound ...

Fan excitement was high, and understandably so, when Black Sabbath unveiled their 10th album Mob Rules on Nov. 4, 1981. In any case, the need for such complicated politics to manage gigantic but ...

Black Sabbath have announced the reissue of their first two albums to feature Ronnie James Dio as frontman, 1980’s Heaven and Hell and 1981’s Mob Rules. Dio officially joined the group in 1979, ...

Black Sabbath released live renditions of “Heaven and Hell” and “The Mob Rules” from the upcoming reissues of their two albums of the same name, which were their only to feature frontman Ronnie James ...

Myles Kennedy has served up a cover of Black Sabbath's "The Mob Rules" in a way you've certainly never heard it before, unless you, too, have played a version of the iconic Ronnie James Dio-fronted ...

See Tony Iommi, Ronnie James Dio, Geezer Butler and Vinnie Appice tearing through their Sabbath classic on tour in 2007, taken from their forthcoming mega boxset. Following the recent announcement ...

It wasn’t until Black Sabbath started work on their ninth album, Heaven and Hell, in 1979 that bassist Geezer Butler was able to get an objective perspective on his band’s capabilities. The group had ...

Fairly or not, when a band loses a charismatic frontman, they’re left with a hole that’s both more obvious and difficult to fill than, say, keyboardist or drummer. Rock history has shown that bands ...