BLACK SABBATH - Live Evil 12" Vinyl 2LP Album

Production and Recording Information

The album: "BLACK SABBATH - Live Evil" was produced by: Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler.

Sound/Recording Engineer(s): Bill Freesh, Lee De Carlo

This album was recorded at: live in Seattle, San Antonio and Dallas

Recorded with The Record Plant Mobile, Los Angeles

Mixed at The Record Plant, Los Angeles

Album cover design and Artwork : Jay Vigon, Paul Clark, Stan Watts

Album cover photography: Mark "Weissguy" Weiss, Patrick "Flash" Harbron

Musicians:

• Tony Iommi - Guitars
• Tony Iommi – Guitar

  The riff inventor who turned missing fingertips into a whole new genre. Casual flex. Read more...

  Tony Iommi is Black Sabbath’s riff architect, the guy who turned a factory accident into the sound of heavy metal. From 1968-2017 he was the constant in Sabbath’s many shapes, anchoring the classic Ozzy run (1968-1979) and then dragging the name through every storm that followed. When the Dio-era core rebranded as Heaven & Hell (2006-2010), he proved the same hands could still summon fresh thunder. Iommi’s down-tuned, fingertip-adapted chords don’t "shred"; they loom, like machinery waking up in the dark, and that’s why every doom riff owes him rent. As a collector, I’ll take one Iommi chord over a hundred flashy solos. He stepped out solo with "Iommi" (2000) and "Fused" (2005), but the Sabbath pulse never left his fingers.

  Tony Iommi Wiki
• Geezer Butler - Bass
• Terry "Geezer" Butler – Bass

  The low-end philosopher who wrote the nightmares so the rest of us could hum them in public. Read more...

  Terry "Geezer" Butler, Terence "Geezer" Butler is Black Sabbath's low-end brains trust, the bassist who made the riffs feel like factory machinery and wrote the words that haunted your bedroom wall. From 1968-1979 he anchored the classic lineup, then returned for the big reunion runs (1997-2006, 2011-2017). His lyrics leaned into war, paranoia, and sci-fi dread - think "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" - but he always sounded more human than theatrical. He also powered the Dio-era revival as Heaven & Hell (2006-2010) and even jumped into Ozzy's solo camp for the 1988 tour, because why not keep it in the family. Mid-90s he went off-grid with G//Z/R, proving he could sound modern without asking permission. I collect these records, but Geezer collected the nightmares first.

  Terry "Geezer" Butler Wiki
• Ronnie James Dio - Lead Vocals
• Ronnie James DIO – Vocals

  DIO is straight-up one of my all-time favorite hard rock and heavy metal singers. I clock him as a once-in-a-generation voice: pure power, ridiculous control, and that storyteller energy that makes metal feel like a myth you can actually hold in your hands  Read more...

  I always track his timeline like chapters I keep re-reading: Elf (1967–1975) where he sharpened the blues-rock grit, Rainbow (1975–1979) where the fantasy thunder really took off, Black Sabbath (1979–1982, 1991–1992) where he helped reboot the doom machine, Dio (1982–2010) where he built his own kingdom, and Heaven & Hell (2006–2010) where the classics came roaring back live.

  Ronnie James Dio, I don’t just hear a singer here — I hear a frontman who could make a chorus feel like a battle standard and a quiet line feel like a warning whispered in a cathedral. When he lit the fuse in Rainbow on “Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow” and especially “Rising” (yeah, that one), it was all high drama and sharpened melody. When he walked into Black Sabbath and dropped “ Heaven and Hell ” and “Mob Rules,” he didn’t “replace” anyone — he gave the band a whole second spine. And when he planted the flag with Dio on “Holy Diver” and “The Last in Line” (and later “Sacred Heart” for the big-chorus arena punch), the signature stayed the same: massive hooks, bigger conviction, and that unmistakable “this matters” intensity that makes you sit up like the record just called your name. Ronnie James Dio Wiki

• Geof Nicholls - Keyboards

  Geoff Nicholls (real-name: Geoffrey James Nicholls) is a keyboardist, musician and best known for the period where he performed with the NWOBHM band "Black Sabbath". Other bands he has performed with include Johnny Neal and the Starliners, Quartz, The Boll Weevils, The Seed, Tony Martin, World of Oz.

• Vinny Appice - Drums
• Vinny Appice – Drums

  Vinny Appice hits like a wrecking ball that somehow keeps perfect time—tight, loud, and annoyingly tasteful. Late-70s grind with Rick Derringer (1976–1977) and Axis (1978) turned into the real deal with Black Sabbath (1980–1982), then that classic jump with Ronnie James Dio into Dio (1982–1989; back again for the 1994 and 1996 records). Read more...

  Vinny Appice, Brooklyn-born and raised on the kind of grit that doesn’t need a press release, has always sounded like he’s driving the whole band from the drum throne. First heard him properly when he slid into Black Sabbath on the Heaven and Hell tour in 1980 and then stamped his name on Mob Rules (1981) and the Live Evil chapter (1982). Late 1982 brought the big pivot: leaving the Sabbath orbit with Ronnie James Dio to build Dio, where my turntable still keeps coming back to that early run—Holy Diver (1983), The Last in Line (1984), Sacred Heart (1985), Intermission (1986), Dream Evil (1987)—before he stepped away in December 1989. The story didn’t end there, because heavy metal loves sequels: he flew back into Sabbath for Dehumanizer in 1992, reunited with Dio for Strange Highways (1994) and Angry Machines (1996), and later rode with the same core crew as Heaven & Hell from 2006 to 2010—proof that his groove isn’t a “style,” it’s a structural beam.

  Vinny Appice Wiki

Tracklisting Side One:

1. E5150
2. Neon Knights
3. N.I.B
4. Children of the Sea
5. Voodoo

Tracklisting Side Two:

1. Black Sabbath
2. War Pigs
3. Iron Man

Tracklisting Side C:

1. The Mob Rules
2. Heaven and Hell

Tracklisting Side D:

1. The Sign of the Southern Cross / Heaven and Hell
2. Paranoid
3. Children of the Graves
4. Fluff