Sharon Arden, (later Sharon Osbourne) daughter of Black Sabbath manager Don Arden, suggested former Rainbow singer Ronnie James Dio to replace Ozzy Osbourne in 1979. Dio officially joined in June, and the band began writing their next album. With a distinct vocal style mainly Osbourne, Dio addition to the band marked a change in the sound of Black Sabbath. "They are a totally different altogether", Iommi explains. "Not only is his wise but attitude-wise. Ozzy is a great showman, but when Dio happened is a different attitude, different voices and different musical approach, as far as Dio is singing. Singing in the riffs, while Ozzy will follow the riff, like "Iron Man" Ronnie came. and give us another way to write. "
Dio in Black Sabbath period also brought a "metal horns" gesture to the popularity of the subculture of heavy metals. Dio was adopted in the first movement of superstition to ward off "evil eye" as a hello to audience. Since then, the movement became much imitated by fans and other musicians of the same.
Grandma Butler temporarily left the group in September 1979 and was initially replaced by Geoff Nicholls of Quartz on bass. The line-up had returned to criteria Studios in November to begin recording work, with Butler returned to the band in January 1980, and Nicholls moved to the keyboard. Produced by Martin Birch, Heaven and Hell, was released April 25, 1980, acclaimed by critics. More than a decade after releaseAllMusic who said the album was "one of the best records of the Sabbath, the band sounds reborn and reinvigorated the whole" Heaven and. Hellpeaked at number 9 in the UK and number 28 in the U.S., since the highest band Sabotage album track. The album eventually sold a million copies in the United States, and the band begins a world tour extended, making their first live appearance with Dio in Germany April 17, 1980.
Black Sabbath U.S. tour throughout 1980 with Blue Oyster Cult on "Black and Blue" tour, with performances at the Nassau Coliseum inUniondale, New York was filmed and released in cinemas in 1981 as Black and Blue. The July 26, 1980, the band played for 75,000 fans at sold-out Coliseum Los Angeles Memorial with Journey, Cheap Trick, and Molly Hatchet. The next day, the group appears on 1980Day green at Oakland Coliseum. During the tour, the label of the former Black Sabbath in England released a live album from a seven-year performance, entitled Live at Last without any input from the band. The album reached number five on the UK charts, and saw the reissue of "Paranoid" as a single, which reached 20 large.
On 18 August 1980, after the show in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bill Ward was fired from Black Sabbath. "I was sinking very quickly," Ward said later. "I'm a great drunk, I'm drunk 24 hours a day. When I go on stage, the scene is not so bright that it feels like I'm dying inside .. I think it looks so bare, Ron was there to do and I am "He's gone" I loved Ronnie. But the music, it's not for me ". Concerned about health declining Ward, drummer Vinny Appice has Iommi, without informing Ward. "They do not talk to me, they sacked me from the chair and I was not aware of what I know. They will be bring a drummer keep (tower), but I'm with the band for years, since we were little, and then Vinny was playing. and it was like "What the fuck? "It hurts."
The band ended Heaven and Hell world tour in February 1981 and returned to the studio to begin work on the next album. Black Sabbath's second album produced by Martin Birch and Ronnie James Dio with as a singer, Mob Rules was released in October 1981, which will be welcomed by fans, but not by critics. JD Considine of Rolling Stone's reviewer gave the album one star, claiming "Mob Rulesfinds group as dumb and bloated as usual" Like most previous work of this group. Time to contribute to improving the view of the music press, a decade after news of the company, Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide called Mob Rules "extraordinary record" The album reached gold. And reached 20 summits in the UK charts. The title song from the album "The Mob Rules", which was recorded at the old home of John Lennon in England, also featured in the animated film Heavy Metal 1981, although the movie version is another take, and different from the version of the album.
Satisfied with the quality of 1980's Live at Last, the group recorded another live album called Live-Evil, Mob Rules world tour, through the United States in Dallas, San Antonio and Seattle in 1982 . During the process of mixing the album, Iommi and Butler fell out with Dio. The misinformation mixing time engineers, Iommi and Butler accused Dio sneaking into the studio at night to increase the voice volume. In addition, Dio is not satisfied with photographs of himself in works of art. "Ronnie wanted more say in," Iommi said. "And my grandmother would be angry against him and that's where the rot set in Live Evil is when everything falls apart Ronnie wants. To do more of things myself, and engineers that we use in both studio didn t 'know what to do, because Ronnie was telling him something and we tell him another. At the end of the day we just say, "That's this band." "When it came time to vote, nobody tells me what to do there!. Because they are not as good as me, so I did what I wanted to do, "Dio said later. "I refuse to listen Toliver Evil, because there are many problems if you look at credit. Vocals and drums are listed on the side. Open the album and see how many images there Tony, and how there's me and Vinny. "
Ronnie James Dio left Black Sabbath in November 1982 to launch his own band, and drummer Vinny Appice took with him. Live Evil was released in January 1983, but overshadowed by Ozzy Osbourne Speak of the Devil, an album containing platinum only sellinglive songs by Black Sabbath, released five months earlier.
