Black Sabbath in the early '80s: (Top) Vinny Appice, Tony Iommi; (Bottom) Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio. Credit: Photo by Mark Weiss/Courtesy of Chipster PR With all due admiration and respect for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Setting the Stage: In recent years, “hologram performances” of deceased musical icons have been occurring more and more often. Case in point: Tupac Shakur, Frank Zappa, and Ronnie James Dio all ...

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 ...

Black Sabbath released live renditions of “Heaven and Hell” and “The Mob Rules” from the upcoming reissues of their two albums of the same name, which were their only to feature frontman Ronnie James ...

It wasn’t until Black Sabbath started work on their ninth album, Heaven and Hell, in 1979 that bassist Geezer Butler was able to get an objective perspective on his band’s capabilities. The group had ...