The Mob Rules

Infobox Single
Name = The Mob Rules


Artist = Black Sabbath
from Album = Mob Rules
B-side =
Released = 1981
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 3:14
Label = Vertigo/Warner Bros.
Writer = Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler
Producer = Martin Birch
Last single = "Die Young"
(1980)
This single = "The Mob Rules"
(1981)
Next single = "Turn Up the Night"
(1981)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Mob Rules
Type = studio
prev_track = "E5150"
prev_no = 4
this_track = "The Mob Rules"
track_no = 5
next_track = "Country Girl""
next_no = 6Extra tracklisting
Album =
Type = compilation
prev_track = "Lonely is the Word"
prev_no = 5
this_track = "The Mob Rules"
track_no = 6
next_track = "Turn Up the Night"
next_no = 7Extra tracklisting
Album = Live at Hammersmith Odeon
Type = live
prev_track = "Iron Man (song)"
prev_no = 9
this_track = "The Mob Rules"
track_no = 10
next_track = "Heaven and Hell"
next_no = 11Extra tracklisting
Album = Cross Purposes Live
Type = live
prev_track = "I Witness"
prev_no = 3
this_track = "The Mob Rules"
track_no = 4
next_track = "Into the Void"
next_no = 5Audiosample
Background=#E6E8FA
Upper caption = Audio sample
Audio file = Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules.ogg

"The Mob Rules" is a song by British heavy metal band Black Sabbath from their 1981 album, "Mob Rules".

Track listing

7" single (Vertigo #SAB 5)

*A. The Mob Rules
*B. Die Young (live)

Chart positions

In popular culture

*An alternative recording of the song was featured in the 1981 movie "Heavy Metal.
*The song was used in the first trailer for the 2008 video game "Brütal Legend".
*Although not credited, a near identical rendition of this song in MIDI format appears in the SNES and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version of cite web| url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf08gFdN1uU&fmt=18] .