Heaven and Hell

All tracks by Dio, Iommi, Butler, Ward.

There are music videos for "Neon Knights" and "Die Young". However, they're just staged live footage with overdubbed music; they're not conceptual.

The cover art is actually a painting done by artist Lynn Curlee called Smoking Angels, and was not specifically commissioned for the Heaven and Hell album.

The album was long believed to have been released on April 25. However, an magazine ad from April 1980 confirms that the release date was indeed April 18.

The bass line for "Heaven and Hell" was written by Geoff Nicholls.

Geoff Nicholls was originally brought in to replace Geezer Butler, but moved to keyboards when Geezer returned to the band before the album was recorded.

There's another rumour that the bass on this album was actually played by Craig Gruber, and not Geezer, but this is largely unfounded. Craig was briefly tried out for bass during the period that Geezer quit, but did not formally join.

All the songs were written before Geezer returned - the only song that Geezer actually had a hand in writing was "Neon Knights", which was the final song recorded.

Recording information:

Recorded at Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida, United States.
Additional recording at Studio Ferber, Paris, France.

Identifiers:

Barcode: 0 7599-23372-1
Matrix / Runout (Side A): BSK-1-3372-WW2 # 2
Matrix / Runout (Side B): BSK-2-3372-JW3