To paraphrase Eminem, won’t the real Black Sabbath please stand up? About five years ago, Ozzy entered the studio with the rest of Black Sabbath to record some tracks, which have not yet surfaced. To further complicate matters, Sharon Osbourne said last October that a new Black Sabbath album featuring Ozzy would come out in late 2007, though it’s unclear when the members will all find the time to get together and record it. No, the first new Black Sabbath songs to be released since 1998 have nothing to do with Ozzy and will be on the album Black Sabbath: The Dio Years, which comes out March 13.
The new tracks, “The Devil Cried,” “Shadows of the Wind” and “Ear in the Wall,” feature Ronnie James Dio, who fronted Sabbath from 1980 to 1983 and again from 1991 to 1993. Rhino Records has posted a stream of “The Devil Cried”.
For most of this year, the Dio-fronted Black Sabbath will be touring under the name Heaven and Hell, starting in Vancouver on March 11. So far, the only U.S. date is March 30 in New York.
And now, the groovalicious video of “Paranoid”.
