The world of heavy metal lost one of its most towering figures in May of 2010 when Ronnie James Dio succumbed to stomach cancer. The previous summer, the recently reformed Dio version of Black Sabbath ...
'Heaven and Hell' features Sabbath's best songs in years: ‘Neon Knights’ (relentless, never looking back), ‘Children of the Sea’ (regal and quickly penned during Iommi and Dio’s very first meeting), ...
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 ...
In the months preceding the arrival of Ronnie James Dio, it looked as if Black Sabbath were over. They had spent the past decade as the world’s most infamous band, and their notoriety was taking its ...