The Dio Years (Tour Edition) - Black Sabbath

Here we go again. This is the new "thing" in CD releases. Take your release, and then put it out 6-7 months later with a few additional tracks, and call it the "Tour Edition". While I won't rag on them as hard as I did for the "Greatest Hits" release in 2006, this does have a bit of a "why" feeling to it.

This is a two disc release. The first disc is the same as the original release from May 2007. Disc two has four live tracks, culled from the Live at Hammersmith release from this year as well. That release was limited to a run of just 5,000 copies, so these four tracks are not all that common.

The "tour" this release refers to was the final leg of the Heaven & Hell 2007 tour in the UK. To that, this version of the Dio Years was not released in the US. It was in the UK only - my purchase link here is to the Amazon UK store. If you didn't get Dio Years the first time, this is probably the version to get. If you did get it before, then it's probably not worth the pickup.

Read my review of the original version for my thoughts on the music itself.