HEAVEN & HELL - NEON NIGHTS: 30 YEARS OF HEAVEN & HELL - LIVE IN EUROPE

Heaven & Hell

Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven & Hell - Live In Europe

Armoury Records - 2010

http://www.heavenandhelllive.com

The live concert from Wacken Open Air is presented on this the "final" album from Heaven & Hell as constituted with the dearly departed Ronnie James Dio on vocals.

If you are a fan of the band, you have likely heard most, if not all of the songs captured here. There are 11 tracks from the "Heaven & Hell" track and "Mob Rules" to the most recent songs "Bible Black" and "Fear".

It is a solid release, the sound is decent. I thought it might be muffled a bit but that could just have been my ears playing tricks on me. The band sounds in fine form and as for Dio's vocals, you can still feel the luster in his voice all these years into his career. He continually put to shame far younger vocalists.

The album liner notes contain an essay about the band right up until the passing of Dio. The band also released a live DVD companion to this CD. I'll likely get around to reviewing that at some point.

Just know that if you are a fan, this release is a bookend to the band's career that originally as Black Sabbath far exceeded to me at least, the Ozzy led version of the band.

GRADE - A MINUS

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Permalink Reply by Scott on December 28, 2010 at 9:43am

Thanks Tage! Ive been taking more notice of live DVD's and music packaging in general on DVD's. Its a really cool way to listen to music. Very often when we have friends over or are out back playing games, I will put in the DVD, pipe it though the home stereo and they offer a really cool listening or viewing experience.