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The Dio Years (Bonus Track Version) [Remastered]

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"Along with being a heavy-metal pioneer and an otherworldly falsetto singer, the late, great Ronnie James Dio didn't made a big deal about not being inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Black Sabbath. Dio lived for the music and this solid comp culls the best of his 1979 to 1992 tenure with Black Sabbath. On 1980's Heaven and Hell, along with 1981's Mob Rules and 1982's Live Evil, Dio helped take Black Sabbath's music to a harder, faster and more sinister sounding realm than Ozzy Osbourne's voice and work ethic could provide. He even kept 1992's Dehumanizer true to form during a time when many metalheads were succumbing to grunge. The Dio Years appropriately opens with ""Neon Knights,"" a fast-driving juggernaut of medieval-inspired, muscle-bound metal. In the anthemic ""Heaven and Hell"" he builds on Ozzy-era sludge-riffs with athletically taut vocals characteristic of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. The last three songs here, recorded in 2007 for this outing, make up for a curiously absent ""The Sign of the Southern Cross."" "

Customer Reviews

Dio!!

To the guy that said Dio is just as good as Ozzy, I say you are crazy. Dio is a far better singer than Ozzy. Both have their own distinct style. Ozzy is great, but Dio is in a class of his own. What makes Black Sabbath with Dio inferior isn't the vocals, it's the music. Sabbath in the 80's played a more commercial style of metal in the same vain as bands like Judas Priest. This is far from the bluesy doom-metal that Black Sabbath pioneered in the 70's with Ozzy. That said, it's better than 90 percent of the metal available on Itunes. I just wish they would get the Ozzy albums.

ALL HAIL DIO!!!!!!

Dio is only one of the greatest rock vocalists of all time and this album does an amaing job of covering his years with Sabbath. Ozzy is cool and all, but The Dio Black Sabbath is beyond all competition. ALL HAIL DIO!!!!

Blown Away

I've only heard 3 Black Sabbath songs with Dio. The rest of my Black Sabbath music was Ozzy. So, I decided to buy this album. When I heard the first track, I was BLOWN AWAY by Tony Iommi's riffs. Every single part of this album is awesome!

Biography

Formed: 1969 in Birmingham, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s

Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of heavy metal rock music as to be a defining force in the style. The group took the blues-rock sound of late-'60s acts like Cream, Blue Cheer, and Vanilla Fudge to its logical conclusion, slowing the tempo, accentuating the bass, and emphasizing screaming guitar solos and howled vocals full of lyrics expressing mental anguish and macabre fantasies. If their predecessors clearly came out of an electrified blues tradition, Black...
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