10 Perfect Supergroups In Rock History

Any good Black Sabbath album always comes back around to the strength behind Tony Iommi's riffs. As much as Ozzy Osbourne might be the mascot behind the band in the early days, Iommi was always the driving force, reaching down into the depths of Hell to create some of the most demented rock and roll ever made. And if Ozzy's people thought that the band couldn't continue on without the Prince of Darkness, a simple name change wasn't going to slow anyone down.

Reuniting with the Ronnie James Dio era of the band, Heaven and Hell's debut record has some of the strongest songs from the later days of Sabbath, sounding reenergized from working with Ronnie again and turning in some of the most twisted material imaginable. Although the dismissal of Bill Ward may have been heartbreaking, hearing Vinny Appice behind the kit is just the right kind of substitute, always serving the song and knowing when to bring the thunder right alongside Geezer Butler's menacing bass tone.

There may have been some bad blood spilled back in the day, but Bible Black is exactly the kind of thing that the members of Sabbath were meant to do, continuing to push themselves forward even if this would be one of the final records that Ronnie would create before passing away from cancer a few years later. You can give the band a new name if you want to, but Heaven and Hell still had the same hellish fury that you weren't going to mistake for anyone else.