Live Evil, which arrived in the U.S. in January 1983, capped a three-year resurgence after Dio rescued the dopesick Sabbath from its post-Ozzy Osbourne doldrums. Together with Tony Iommi, Geezer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black Sabbath is dead, and Black Sabbath will never die. Both of these things are true. More than 50 years ago, the Birmingham, ...

The Heaven and Hell reunion of the Dio-era Black Sabbath lineup likely would have continued if not for Ronnie James Dio‘s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The estate of frequent Black Sabbath collaborator, live keyboardist, and sometimes bassist Geoff Nicholls has posted a real gem for Black Sabbath fans – an unreleased song called "Slapback". Nicholls' ...