Black Sabbath
Live Evil

This is arguably the heaviest live album released by any rock or metal band, and showcases the band at the height of their powers, and firing on all cylinders.

Black Sabbath's first attempt at an official live album, 1982's Live Evil was also the straw that broke the camel's back -- or rather, split the legendary group's second lineup right down the middle. Band tensions were already at an all-time high leading into the album's mixing sessions, but when founding members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler accused singer Ronnie James Dio of sneaking into the studio to raise the volume on his vocal tracks, the pint-sized warbler decided he'd had enough and, guilty or not, departed to pursue a solo career, taking drummer Vinny Appice with him. I really like it.

As to me, a super live CD and professionally remastered. Dio as a singer is absolutely ok for me (since he is not Ozzy but technically a better singer), so I can only recommend this record. It is also a “mixed version” of 2 songs which you can not hear anywhere else. Great!

Great edition. Looks very good. Performance is great too, the pity is that the stupid sound engineer, who used to mix this album, was a drunkard and did a lame mixing, what caused problems between Tony Iommy/Geezer Butlen on the one side and Dio/Vinnie Appice on the other. Anyway, I enjoy listening to it.

Live Evil was the reason why the iconic singer left Black Sabbath during one of the best moments of the band! A great live album, and Dio showed that he could well sing Sabbath classics from Ozzy era.

Super live album with Dio! Good quality of sound and artworks!

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