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Roadrunner sign Heaven & Hell
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 31 March 2009
Roadrunner last week announced it had signed Black Sabbath spin off Heaven & Hell to a multi-territory deal covering all markets but North America, Japan and Asia. The deal will see the metal imprint release the band’s album ‘The Devil You Know’ on 27 Apr, the same week it is released in the US via Warner’s Rhino division.
Heaven & Hell, in case you wondered, is the 1981 incarnation of the Sabbath – so Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice. They are going by the Heaven & Hell name so as not confuse the new venture with Iommi and Butler’s occasional reunions with the original and most iconic Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne. Despite some reports that it is the Osbournes stopping the new venture using the Black Sabbath name, in fact the name is owned by Iommi so he could performe under that moniker if he so chose.
