Dio said the label originally asked for unreleased archival recordings to round out this new compilation, but none existed. "We didn’t do any music that we didn’t put on a record when we started," he ...

Ronnie James Dio steered Black Sabbath away from the brink of self-destruction when he replaced the ousted Ozzy Osbourne in 1979. But just three years and two beloved albums later, he'd sing his ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Influential heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio, best known for his ...

Sharon Osbourne seems to have no hard feelings about Black Sabbath. Even though the band fired her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, the Osbournes have done fine on their own. Black Sabbath eventually reunited ...

What began as fondly jamming to the post-Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath tracks "Heaven and Hell" and "The Mob Rules" during Sabbath's Ozzfest 2005 soundchecks eventually led to a reunion with former… By ...

There’s been a lot going on in the world of the late, great Ronnie James Dio lately. His autobiography Rainbow In The Dark is finally getting a long-waited posthumous release on July 27, and the ...

You've probably heard a version of Ronnie James Dio singing "War Pigs" with Black Sabbath before, but what about the version from his early band Elf all the way back ...

Two long out-of-print live albums from Dio, 2005’s Evil Or Divine: Live in New York City and 2008’s Holy Diver Live, are being reissued on vinyl. Newly remastered with new cover art, the deluxe ...

Here’s a fun quote from a recent Songfacts interview with Zakk Wylde: “You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it’s not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it Heaven & ...

Black Sabbath is dead, and Black Sabbath will never die. Both of these things are true. More than 50 years ago, the Birmingham, England-founded quartet pioneered heavy metal music with songs like “War ...

Image Credit: David Atlas/Retna Ltd. Heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio, whose eternal wail fronted bands like Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Dio for close to four decades, died today at the reported age ...