Heaven And Hell
by Black Sabbath
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Black Sabbath bestography
Heaven And Hell is ranked 6th best out of 49 albums by Black Sabbath on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Black Sabbath is Paranoid which is ranked number 50 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,096.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Heaven And Hell track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Heaven And Hell rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1980 | 36/50 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 80 Music Albums of 1980 | 35/80 | 3 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 73 Music Albums of 1980 | 11/73 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Xxnu99etxX | Metal | 86/98 | - |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top albums, #1701-1800* | 5/84 | - |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 21/100 | 16 |
| 2026 | timosbuecherei | Top 90 Music Albums of the 1980s | 55/90 | 8 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 57 Music Albums of 1980 | 9/57 | 4 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Hard rock albums of all time by Metal Storm | 5/99 | - |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 49 Music Albums of 1980 | 10/49 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 361 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,092 | |||
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Heaven And Hell ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/30/2026 13:13 | Siromynian | 1,773 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/06/2026 12:50 |  LedZep | 5,156 | 79/100 |
| ! | 08/18/2026 12:57 | steve397 | 513 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.3/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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Heaven And Hell forum mentions
Romanelli 09/16/2026 19:15 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
BestEverAlbums 08/29/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5419): By MasterOfPuppets BestEverAlbums 08/08/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5398): By mrmcrookHeaven And Hell comments
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Jasonconfused TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/15/2012 21:59 | #55101 | TOP COMMENT
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It's easily the best Sabbath album with Dio, and maybe even one of their overall best. It might even be Ronnie James Dio's best work. This and Holy Diver anyway. Ozzy being kicked out of Sabbath was the best thing ever. We got Blizzard of Ozz and this beautiful album out of it.
LedZep TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/17/2017 02:37 | #203330 | TOP COMMENT
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The best Sabbath record along with the first one, in an extremely fierce competition. But really, you can’t go wrong with their albums (Edited)
Black Sabbath finally lives up to their great name and reputation. This is the best Sabbath record ever. I will say it: Dio Sabbath is better than Ozzy Sabbath. There. Now you know. "Heaven and Hell" is Sabbath's finest song. Pretty much a flawless record.
This record feels a little to similar to stuff I have heard before and is missing that spark that separates them from the crowd. It just feels a little generic and it gets lost amongst the rest of the Sabbath discography for me. There are a couple of weak tracks as well and moments that could be skipped. I just never get the desire to put this album on especially with the other amazing records around it. However, I do love the guitar on this album and I think it is just as strong as ever. Some of the riffs and solos completely carry tracks and if I was going to be drawn back to this release it would be for the guitar. Overall, there are a few good songs on here but I do think this record gets over rated and it feels a bit flat unfortunately. (Edited)
An absolute classic - Dio at his best as Sabbath return to the top.
Top tracks: Heaven and Hell, Die Young, Neon Knights, Children of the Sea (Edited)
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