Which drummer played on Black Sabbath's 1981 album Mob Rules?

Which drummer played on Black Sabbath's 1981 album Mob Rules? Vinny Appice played the drums.

Mob Rules was released in November 1981 and was the first Black Sabbath studio album to feature Appice. He joined during the Heaven and Hell tour after original drummer Bill Ward left the lineup. Appice was a younger American drummer who had already made an impression on the band by learning the material quickly and fitting into the Dio-era sound.

The album reunited the core Heaven and Hell lineup of Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, and Geezer Butler, while Appice supplied a powerful, precise approach that helped define songs such as “Turn Up the Night,” “Voodoo,” and “The Sign of the Southern Cross.” Martin Birch produced and engineered the record at the Record Plant in Los Angeles.

Listeners sometimes confuse Mob Rules with Heaven and Hell because both feature Dio and belong to the same celebrated period. The distinction is important: Bill Ward played on Heaven and Hell, while Appice played on Mob Rules. Appice later returned for Dehumanizer in 1992, another Dio-fronted Sabbath album.