This live concert recording captures the sold-out Radio City Music Hall performance of former Black Sabbath rockers Ronnie James Dio Vinny Appice Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler who reunited under the name Heaven and Hell in 2006.Comprised of former members of Black Sabbath Heaven Hell grew out of a 2006 reunion of post-Ozzy frontman Ronnie James Dio guitarist Tony Iommi bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Vinny Appice for the purpose of recording new tracks for a Sabbath compilation called The Dio Years. Heaven Hell then toured drawing deep from the Dio-era Sabbath catalogue. The masterful Heaven Hell: Live from Radio City Music Hall is one result of that rekindled partnership a two-hour Gothic metal marathon filmed in 2007 before a thrilled New York City audience. Largely comprised of classic Sabbath material the show unfolds with a deceptive ease. The seasoned bandmates play with graceful concentration even as they plunge into the maw of doomstruck power chords and grinding riffs the wiry Dio stalking Heaven Hells swampy sound like some fusion of a crow and benevolent overlord. At times its impossible not to contradict oneself while trying to describe the groups intricate paradoxical sound: "Children of the Sea" for instance is somehow both a snaking and watery mystery. "E5150/After All (The Dead)" is equally epic and nonchalant. "I" is a show-stopping nightmarish blues that leans toward the anthemic while "Falling Off the Edge" is highlighted by a molten rhythm and Dios taut vocal. This is a fine outing from a historic ensemble.   ... >>