|
The Rules of Hell | 
| Artist: Black Sabbath
Label: Rhino Records
Category: Music
List Price: $54.98
Buy Used: $24.96
You Save: $30.02 (55%)
New (37) Used (17) Collectible (2) from $24.96
Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 14836
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 6 x 5.3 x 2
MPN: 460156
UPC: 081227993436
EAN: 0081227993436
ASIN: B001AZ7RU0
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Tracks:
Disc 1
| | Neon Knights | | | Children of the Sea | | | Lady Evil | | | Heaven and Hell | | | Wishing Well | | | Die Young | | | Walk Away | | | Lonely Is the World |
Disc 2
| | Turn Up the Night | | | Voodoo | | | The Sign of the Southern Cross | | | E5150 | | | The Mob Rules | | | Country Girl | | | Slipping Away | | | Falling off the Edge of the World | | | Over and Over |
Disc 3
| | E5150 - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | Neon Knights - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | N.I.B. - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | Children of the Sea - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | Voodoo - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | War Pigs - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | Iron Man |
Disc 4
| | The Mob Rules - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | The Sign of the Southern Cross/Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | Paranoid - Black Sabbath, Butler | | | Children of the Grave | | | Fluff - Black Sabbath, Butler |
Disc 5
| | Computer God | | | After All (The Dead) | | | TV Crimes | | | Letters from Earth | | | Master of Insanity | | | Time Machine | | | Sins of the Father | | | Too Late | | | I | | | Buried Alive | | | Time Machine |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Deluxe 5-CD slipcase boxed set collects Black Sabbath's complete Dio-fronted catalog: Heaven And Hell, Mob Rules, Live Evil (2 CDs), and Dehumanizer. Each title was recently remastered for the first time ever and features extensive liner notes including new band interviews. Heaven And Hell (1980) is regarded as one of Sabbath's all-time best with its anthem tracks 'Neon Knights', 'Die Young' and the epic title track. Mob Rule's ('81) was the first Sabbath LP to feature Appice on drums (replacing Bill Ward), delivering high octane classics like 'Falling Off The Edge Of The World', 'Turn Up The Night' and 'The Sign Of The Southern Cross'. Live Evil, the group's 1982 double-live set, is an in-concert masterpiece and a testament to the raw power of Sabbath's Dio, Iommi, Butler, and Appice lineup on fourteen epic tracks. Dehumanizer ('92).
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 Black Sabbath Enforce The Rules of Hell July 25, 2008
Bman3rd (United States)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
The four album, five-CD Boxed Set Features Newly Remastered Versions Of
Every Dio-Era Sabbath Album.
With the reunion of the Dio era Black Sabbath being a huge success. Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinnie Appice originally got back together to record three new songs for the collection Black Sabbath: The Dio Years. It went so well they embarked on a tour as Heaven And Hell.
The Rules Of Hell is a box set that collects all of the Dio era Sabbath material. It includes 1980's Heaven And Hell, 1981's Mob Rules, 1982's (2 disc)Live Evil and 1992's Dehumanizer, providing a firsthand look at a crucial juncture in the Black Sabbath legacy.
In their 40 plus years of existence, Black Sabbath has had a bunch of vocalists. The two whom are most well known and recorded the best material with Sabbath were Ozzy Osbourne and Ronnie James Dio. A few people favor both singers, but most people either love Ozzy or worship Dio. This box set is perfect for those who only want the Ronnie James Dio material.
There aren't any bonus tracks or previously unreleased songs on The Rules Of Hell, but all the CDs have been remastered. There are also extensive liner notes and new interviews with the band. If you already have all the Dio era Sabbath albums, there's probably no need to add The Rules Of Hell to your collection unless you're a completist, or like me want to have a perfect version for the first time of the 2 disc set of Live Evil.
Also of interest the corna, or devil horns, hand gesture, also widespread, was popularized by vocalist Ronnie James Dio while with Black Sabbath and his solo band named Dio.
Heaven and Hell
Exit Ozzy Osbourne. Enter Ronnie James Dio. With a blast. If you thought nothing could compare to Ozzy Osbourne's voice, well, Dio blew him away. Songs like Neon Nights and Lady Evil showcase Black Sabbath treading innovative ground. The feel isn't the same doom kind seen in the early albums, but it is still dark and mystical.
Mob Rules
Dio continues to amaze. In this album, songs like Turn Up the Night, Voodoo, The Sign of the Southern Cross and The Mob Rules shred, and show a side of Black Sabbath never seen with Ozzy. This isn't to say one is better than the other, but that they both made Black Sabbath sound by their own right.
Released in December 1982, Live Evil stands as a modern metal masterpiece and a testament to the power of the Dio, Iommi, Butler and Appice lineup. Recorded in Seattle, Dallas, and San Antonio, the sound is upfront and aggressive, a virtual front-row seat for epic versions of their classics including Neon Knights, Children Of The Sea, The Sign Of The Southern Cross and Heaven And Hell. The two-disc set also includes Dio's interpretations of Osbourne era classics Paranoid, War Pigs and Iron Man That makes a pretty good argument for the "Dio is a god" camp.
This 2 disc set also features the restored in between song banter with Dio and the crowd not found on othr version for a long time.
Dehumanizer is seen by many metal aficionados as one of, if not the most underrated work to ever carry the Sabbath name. After the lineup fell apart in 1982, the group reconvened a decade later to release this lost classic. The album forged something new, pushing its legend to a new generation of metal heads with incredible tracks like I, Computer God and TV Crimes. In this album, Ronnie James Dio's vocals are among the best he's ever done and Tony Iommi showcases why he is and always will be one of the top 10 guitarist in metal today. Dio's angry and powerful vocals and Iommi's soaring guitar work are nicely complemented by Geezer Butler's pounding bass and Vinny Appice excellent drum work. Black Sabbath are one of the bands responsible for pioneering metal and all it's forms we know today (including industrial, black, death, and doom metal) and Dehumanizer showcases why this is the case: the album is incredibly heavy. The album on the whole paints a vision of a dystopian future living up to the title.
Though equally influential, Osbourne and Dio are as different as heavy metal singers can be. Osbourne's crazed delivery and more topical and introspective subject matter define one pole of the genre, while Dio's fantastical romps and mystical I'm angry are the tent stakes of the opposing camp.
The music of guitarist Tommy Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward's eventual replacement Vinny Appice. Who now work with Dio as Heaven and Hell. Their work on "Heaven and Hell," "The Mob Rules" and "Dehumanizer" is recognizable yet more complex and ponderous than the beautiful menace of those early classics "Paranoid" and "Master of Reality."
Best way to get all of the Dio era Sabbath collection in one fall swoop July 25, 2008
Terrence J. Reardon (Port Saint Lucie, FL)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The brand new Black Sabbath box set entitled The Rules of Hell is a must own for all Dio and/or Black Sabbath fans.
When Ozzy Osbourne got fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, many people had written the band off as nothing without the lead singer. However, the surviving band members (guitarist Tony Iommi, bass player Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward) and many of the band's fans weren't ready to count Sabbath's innings yet. They forged on by recruiting one time Elf and Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow lead singer Ronnie James Dio and continued to record. What resulted were some of the band's best work in years. This box set compiles all four of the band's Dio-era efforts. Plus, all of the tracks have been given proper remastering as opposed to the Castle remasters from 1996 which all sounded terrible.
The box contains the band's 1980 effort Heaven and Hell which was their first album with Dio and was their last with Ward until his brief return to the band in 1983 for the Ian Gillan-fronted Born Again. This album is arguably the best material the band recorded with Dio in the band. Standouts on the album were "Neon Knights", "Children of the Sea" and the famous title track.
The second disc is 1981's Mob Rules which was the band's first album to feature drummer Vinny Appice on drums. Many saw Heaven and Hell's follow-up an inferior product as opposed to its predecessor but is just as strong of an effort as Heaven and Hell. It had many excellent tracks like "Turn Up the Night", "The Sign of the Southern Cross", "Falling Off The Edge Of The World" and the title track.
The double live album from 1982 Live Evil was recorded during the Mob Rules tour. In addition to featuring key tracks from the two aforementioned albums you get in this set (all performed well (see my review)), Dio gets to put his own stamp on some of the classic tracks from the Ozzy era like "Black Sabbath", "Iron Man" and "Children of the Grave". It's a great live album, but disputes between band members led to Dio and Appice parting ways with Iommi and Butler (Dio went on to form his own group, which featured Appice on drums in its initial lineup). This particular album has been on CD over the years in various editions. There was the Warner Bros 2-CD version with the complete album as heard on vinyl (with Dio's stage bantering and everything), and there were 1-CD versions that eliminated either the bantering or "War Pigs" so it would fit an abridged album on a single CD. This set (thankfully) contains the 2-CD version superbly remastered.
Lastly, there is the lineup's last hurrah until their 2007 reunion called Dehumanizer from 1992. They reunited in 1991 and recorded this great album which didn't sound like it was recorded a whole decade after their initial split. Standouts on this album were "Computer God", "TV Crimes", "Master of Insanity" and "Time Machine". You get the American version of the album, so you do have get the Wayne's World take of Time Machine which appeared on the Wayne's World Soundtrack that appeared on the Dehumanizer CD as a bonus track.
Also, each disc restores their original vinyl LP art plus new interviews with the band in each album's booklets.
Sadly, you don't get any bonuses if you purchase this set bought at regular stores. However, if you purchase the set at Best Buy, you get a bonus disc of five live tracks from the rare limited Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1981/82 CD released last year (which, among the bonuses, has a killer live version of "Country Girl"). If you buy the digital download version, you get the three tracks they recorded for 2007's The Dio Years compilation.
This set is recommended for those who either want an upgrade of Dio era catalog or don't own any of the albums yet or the cool remastering.
RECOMMENDED!
Mano Cornuta restored! July 25, 2008
Kevin Pazyck (Rochester, NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There was obviously no doubting that a sequel box set for Black Sabbath would be released since the first box set featured only the original classic lineup. And with the re-pairing of Ronnie, Tony and the gang forming Heaven and Hell, it was just a matter of when.
What I've wanted more than anything from this collection is the full complete LIVE EVIL recording the way it was always meant to be. I remember getting the cassette of the full original concert and wearing the life out of the tape. And by the time I got around to buying the CD, I could only find the single CD compact version which really disappointed. But it is faithfully restored in its entirety in this re-mastered set.
HEAVEN AND HELL is waiting to be redicovered in all of its sonic glory. "Neon Knights" for me will always be the the perennial Heavy Metal song. Fast, classic imagery and blazing fretwork by Godfather Tony Iommi. And the album never slows down from there. I will always be in debt for this work in resuscitating the band from impending doom when Ozzy was gone.
THE MOB RULES is just as good and the trio of Dio, Iommi and Butler were just amazing in their writing consistency (almost too consistent?) and I love the sleeper tracks ("Slipping Away", "FOTEOTW", "Country Girl") just as much, if not more, than the 'feature' tracks.
DEHUMANIZER had always been a bit slow to warm up to. But I understand the demographics of metal at that time were tough to establish and much time and humility had passed with the reuniting of RJD and Sabbath. But with many listens it is at the end of the day an honest effort. But I can't still today get past the ridiculous cover. With the new album coming out next year, maybe they can license John Jude Palencar to rekindle classic Sabbath imagery. Not some college graduate who can draw some kewl skeletons.
In an age of digital content overkill, I'm not terribly smitten by the absence of additional concert footage, booklets, photos, etc. I know what I'm getting going in and it is not an issue. Most of that stuff can be found online anyway so whatever.
At the end of the day, this is a timely release for me because I have had the original CD pressings of these albums for the longest time and why not 'upgrade'? And I will always support the efforts of this lineup when the music takes a front seat to personal interests. Keep it together, guys!
Great Stuff! August 7, 2008
Sandman (Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not going to go into the Ozzy versus Ronnie versus Tony Martin versus Ian Gillan etc debut. The simple fact is that each singer brought their own vibe to the band and all of them are great singers in they're own right. However Ronnie seems to fit the Sabbath sound perfectly. His strong vocals and the way he presents them just seem to take the band to new levels.
This little Box Set will give you the listener a new way to enjoy some of Sabbath's best stuff. Heaven and Hell sounds awesome as does Mob Rules. Live Evil is once again uncut and the way it should be and Dehumanize is really good as well. All the disc get a new look which is cool and liner notes and pics throughout. You wont find the three newer tunes on hear which is a bit of a drag and you wont find any hidden gems that have been released for the first time. It's just the original albums remastered to a T and what's wrong with that?
As the others have said, if you've never heard these gems?, you have to pick them up. For those of us who know them well and already have these in our collection, it's still pretty much a must have. Heaven and Hell alone is worth it as it just sounds fantastic!
Good stuff all around here. Now all we need is a Box Set from the Tony Martin years.
Black Sabbath and Ronnie James Dio Rule! It's Just What The Dio/Sabb Fanatics Needed! August 20, 2008
Alexander Shuris
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Black Sabbath (Dio): The Rules of Hell (Box) 2008
The Complete Dio-Era Black Sabbath Catalog - In Review
Wednesday: August 20th, 2008
By Alexander James Shuris
Warner Brothers (in conjunction with Rhino Records) has recently released a five CD boxed set that includes fully remastered versions of the entire catalog of albums released during the "Dio-Era" of Black Sabbath's reign. The albums include 1980's blockbuster, "Heaven & Hell," the group's widely successful follow-up, "Mob Rules," 1982's "Live Evil" double set, and 1992's tour deforce reunion disc, "Dehumanizer," which was the last full length recording by the Dio-Era Sabbath, which is comprised of Ronnie James Dio on vocals, heavy metal originator
Tony Iommi on guitar, Geezer Butler on bass, Vinny Appice on drums,
and Geoff Nicholls on keyboard (and in some cases bass, which he played during the 1979 sessions for this lineup's best known recording,
Heaven and Hell, which was released the following year).
The set kicks off with, "Neon Knights" (from Heaven & Hell), which was the last thing recorded for the original disc, back in 1980. Dio and Iommi apparently wrote the tune in less than an hour, but it still remains a testament to Dio and Sabbath's union as one of the best comebacks ever. We then move on to "Children of the Sea," which was the first song composed by Tony Iommi, Ronnie James Dio, Bill Ward (who left months after the album's release) and Terry "Geezer" Butler. "Children of the Sea" is quite possibly the best thing that Black Sabbath ever put to tape in the 1980's, besides the title track, "Heaven & Hell" of course, and the menacing "Die Young."
The second disc in the collection, "Mob Rules" from 1981, is every bit as good as its predecessor, but the album opener "Turn Up the Night" still seems like a blatant rip-off of the previous LP's "Neon Knights," even though the track is one of Sabbath's best ever album openers. "Voodoo"
is a slow paced rocker, which is one of Dio's best evil woman lyrics. This song is in the same class as songs like "Lady Evil" from "Heaven and Hell" (CD 1) and Mob Rule's 6th track, "Country Girl," specially written by Ronnie for his wife and manager, Wendy Dio. Track three is an
excellent follow-up to Heaven and Hell from the first disc, "Sign of the Southern Cross." This track is a personal favorite of both Tony Iommi and Ronnie James Dio, the creators of the tune, as well as one of my top ten favorite metal songs ever! "Cross" begins with an acoustic introduction played in skillfull fashion by Tony Iommi, then comes Dio's moving lyrics, and finally the climax, which includes some great bass
effects by Geezer Butler, who is complimented by Vinny Appice and Geoff Nicholls, the band's back-beat. By the album's end we get the slow burner, "Falling Off the Edge of the World" which quickly turns into a sure metal fest of Tony's demonic riffing , Geezer's pulsating bass-lines, Ronnie's frightfully, fantastic and powerfully executed, vocal acrobatics, as well as Vinny's driving drum beats.
Discs 3-4 feature the very same band who recorded "Mob Rules," but in concert, instead of in the studio. Dio is joined by the rest of Black Sabbath, Mark II, as they run through many of the hits found on their last two albums, as well as a few classics by the Ozzy-Era Sabbath, which dissolved in 1978, some 4 years before the release of this double sized document of Dio-Era Sabbath's live prowess. The only thing these discs are missing is the inclusion of live-in-concert versions of key Dio-Era tracks like "Die Young", "Lonely is the Word" (quite possibly Iommi's best solo showcase ever!), "Slipping Away" (with Vinny's drum solo of course), "Turn Up the Night" and Dio's very own "Country Girl." However, you get 14 of Sabbath's best (circa 1970-1982) performed live by the Dio/Iommi/Butler/Appice line-up who still tours to this day under the moniker of "Heaven and Hell" (an apparent tribute to the best thing that this version of the band has to offer). Please listen to the
magnificant "Heaven and Hell" and "Sign of the Southern Cross" medley, which showcases the best of what all five of Sabbath's band members
(including sometimes hidden keyboardist and occasional bassist, Geoff Nicholls) had to offer in the early 1980's and beyond.
Disc 5 comprises 1992's doomed reunion album, "Dehumanizer" which was Dio's least-successful album with Sabbath. It came out during a time when Black Sabbath was breaking free from a ten year hiatus in rock worthy material (1983-1992), and Dio was experiencing a decreasing fan base, due to his last two albums that didn't exactly match such past glories as "Holy Diver" and "Last in Line." Both bands (Sabbath and Ronnie's own group, DIO) hadn't had a popular hit since 1984, with each party each releasing 5 albums during this "wilderness" period of band activity. Dio was able to muster up (Holy Diver, Last in Line, Sacred Heart, Dream Evil and Lock Up the Wolves), while Tony Iommi and his cast of thousands released (Born Again, Seventh Star, The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross and TYR). Of note, Iommi was the sole member of the original Sabbath Line-up, from 1985 to 1991. However, Iommi's talent really shows on those four albums, even though his backing band is a mere shadow of its former self. Such journeymen as Glenn Hughes(Deep Purple), Bob Daisley (Rainbow and Ozzy), Eric Carr (KISS and Badlands), Cozy Powell (Rainbow) and Tony Martin (10-year Sabbath veteran) joined Mr. Iommi on these 4 somewhat, sub-par albums, but having Sabbath's
(hidden member)Geoff Nicholls on the keyboards, Tony Martin on the mic and Rainbow's Cozy Powell on the skins,didn't worsen the effect too
much.
|
|
|
|
Copyright (c) 2001 -
2008 imall3d.com | Cyberweb
Computing
Powered by cwhost.comDiscount Shopping Mall | |
|
Student Gift Card
