The official post mentions that they will be adding more dates just that these are the only ones they have so far. To quote: "The ‘Heaven And Hell’ world tour will continue until the end of the year with shows in the US, Asia and Europe. Additional dates will be announced shortly."
March 5, 2007 Spring US Tour Dates Announced The full slate of spring dates has been announced, along with a press release. The press release also says that Megadeth and Machine Head will be the opening acts for the shows. All the tickets for these shows go on sale March 9th (except Houston, read press release). Enough of my blathering - here's what you want to read: APRIL 22 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre 24 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion 25 Los Angeles, CA Forum 26 San Diego, CA Coors Amphitheatre 28 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion 29 Denver, CO Broomfield Events Center MAY 1 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 2 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Pavillion 3 Dallas, TX Nokia Theater 5 Chicago, IL All State Arena 6 Minneapolis, MN Theatre @ Target Center 8 Cincinnati, OH US Bank Arena 10 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Arena 11 Cleveland, OH Tower City Amphitheatre 12 Detroit, MI Cobo Hall 14 Albany, NY Times Union Center 15 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena 17 Lowell, MA Tsongas Arena 18 Baltimore, MD Merriweather Pavilion 19 Holmdell, NJ PNC Arts Center Here is the full press release: HEAVEN AND HELL DESCENDS ON THE STATES Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice Reunite For U.S. Tour Spotlighting Black Sabbath’s Dio Years The Newly Recorded Single “The Devil Cried” Takes Radio By Storm Tickets For All Dates Go On Sale The Weekend Of March 9 LOS ANGELES — Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice will reunite for the first time in 15 years as Heaven and Hell Live to cast a dark spell over spring as the quartet tours the U.S. Tickets will go on sale the weekend of March 9 for all 20 stops of the American leg (except Houston, on sale March 17), which is set to launch in Phoenix on April 22. There will also be a special fan presale for all dates beginning Wednesday, March 7 at 12 Noon EST. The tour will follow in the wake of the band’s highly anticipated Radio City Music Hall concert in New York City on March 30, which sold out in a matter of minutes. Last year, the hard-rocking quartet convened to record three new songs for Rhino Records’ era-spanning collection, Black Sabbath: The Dio Years, due out April 3 on Rhino/Warner Bros. Records. One of the newly recorded tracks – “The Devil Cried” – is the first single. Bristling with the trademark Sabbath sound, the song is being well received by fans and critics alike. The sessions for Black Sabbath: The Dio Years went so well that the band agreed to satisfy longstanding demands for a reunion tour. Set to launch in Canada on March 11, the Heaven And Hell World Tour will spotlight Dio’s tenure with Sabbath and will feature selections from all three of the group’s the studio albums, Heaven And Hell (1980), Mob Rules (1981) and Dehumanizer (1992), as well as the newly recorded tracks. Multi-platinum recording artist Megadeth will join the tour and preview never before heard material from the group’s new CD, United Abominations, due out May 8 on Roadrunner Records. All dates will also feature Roadrunner labelmates Machine Head who are supporting their latest album, The Blackening, set for release on March 27. For more information about Heaven and Hell Live, please go to http://www.heavenandhelllive.com. For more information about the Heaven and Hell Live fan presale, please go to http://heavenandhell.frontgatetickets.com.
Hey actually we are turning into an originals band right now. No more tribute. We will still dust off the Sabbath songs for encores but once we got about 10 songs written we are going to start playing clubs again as an originals band. It was part of our plan all along, to do the tribute thing to build up a following and then bust out with the originals once we had a big enough following. Also surprise announcement may be forth coming about our potential new bass player (We met him at a Maidens show)!
That is very sad-yet another Sabbath tribute bites the dust.Why such a Sabbath backlash?Well you guys became known as a Sabbath tribute so maybe a name change should be in order?Not trying to offend you Hank but I am passionate about the music of Black Sabbath!
the show in Vancouver was a big success! it kicked some serious ASS! DIO sounded just he did 14 years ago.
Dude this is no dis to Black Sabbath! I LOVE Black Sabbath! Its only time that we make the leap to become an originals band. Its why we chose the name Black Lotus Coven which had nothing to do with Sabbath so that we wouldnt have to change our marketing materials and logo when we eventually switched to an originals band! We just had our first session with our new bass player and drummer (an aouncement will be posted in a different thread! ) and we wrote two KICK ASS originals tonight!
Hi, you can see pictures of the show at Montreal here: http://www.metaluniverse.net/dossiersspeciaux_070326_blacksabbath.php Click on "Photos du spectacle".
