Ronnie James Dio was one of metal’s all-time great singers, appearing on landmark albums by Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his ...

Despite the success of his solo album 'Holy Diver' there was one song on there that Ronnie James Dio always regretted including.

After stepping back into Black Sabbath and right back out following one record, 1994 was a crucial year for Dio. He debuted ...

This they did, of course, by enlisting Ronnie James Dio to become the band’s new singer and with that rather smart move the Black Sabbath name was enabled to live and fight another day ...

Would there be heavy metal without Black Sabbath? Possibly ... singers who followed Osbourne's initial successor Ronnie James Dio) somewhat softened their bite, but there’s no getting around ...

We can go round and round about whether to include the late, great Ronnie James Dio era of Black Sabbath on this list. However, it's still a significant part of the band's legacy, and Heaven and ...

A previously unreleased recording of Black Sabbath rehearsing the Dio-era track “Heaven and Hell” surfaced earlier this winter, published by the estate of live band member and frequent collaborator ...

They toured and recorded together until Dio’s death in 2010 ... professionally filmed and documented in the concert film Black Sabbath: The End of the End. In the years that followed, Osbourne ...

But Dio’s big break arrived in 1975, when he was hired to front Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow for a trio of seminal studio LPs. He then replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath for a pair of ...

Black Sabbath are the undisputed godfathers of heavy ... enjoyed nearly as much success with former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio, at the helm. But the band’s fortunes took a turn for ...