Mob Rules (album)

Mob Rules
Studio album by
Black Sabbath
Released4 November 1981
Recorded1981
StudioRecord Plant, Los Angeles
GenreHeavy metal[1]
Length40:36
LabelVertigo
ProducerMartin Birch
Black Sabbath chronology
Heaven and Hell
(1980) 		Mob Rules
(1981) 		Born Again
(1983)
Singles from Mob Rules
  1. "The Mob Rules"
    Released: October 1981[2]
  2. "Turn Up the Night"
    Released: February 1982 [3]

Mob Rules is the tenth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in November 1981. It followed 1980's Heaven and Hell, and was the second album to feature lead singer Ronnie James Dio and the first with drummer Vinny Appice. Neither musician would appear on a Black Sabbath studio album again until the 1992 album Dehumanizer.[4]

Produced and engineered by Martin Birch, the album received a remastered Deluxe Edition release in 2010 and an expanded edition in 2021.

  1. ^ "Black Sabbath - Mob Rules Review". Metal.de.
  2. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Black Sabbath - Mob Rules". Hitparade.ch. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  3. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. ISBN 9780862415419.
  4. ^ "Mob Rules: Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums" at AllMusic. Retrieved 24 January 2009.