Nearly 30 years after they originally split, the members of Black Sabbath’s second, Ronnie James Dio-fronted line-up released ...

Ronnie James Dio was one of metal’s all-time great singers, appearing on landmark albums by Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his ...

These are Ronnie James Dio‘s five best doom metal songs outside of his two stints in Black Sabbath. Leaving Sabbath in the ...

Released in 1983, Born Again is the most controversial album of Black Sabbath’s illustrious career, largely thanks to the ...

Despite the success of his solo album 'Holy Diver' there was one song on there that Ronnie James Dio always regretted including.

Black Sabbath are the undisputed godfathers of heavy metal. Beginning with their eponymous debut and seminal sophomore LP, ‘Paranoid’ (both released in 1970), the quartet from Birmingham ...

Ronnie James Dio has cemented his place in rock and roll history, alongside this song. A few years difference and it could have been him singing on it.

On Feb. 5, Black Sabbath announced “Back to the Beginning,” a homecoming show and farewell to the four fathers of heavy metal. On Jul. 5, the original band will reunite in Birmingham, UK, for ...

But Dio’s big break arrived in 1975, when he was hired to front Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow for a trio of seminal studio LPs. He then replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath for a pair of ...

A previously unreleased recording of Black Sabbath rehearsing the Dio-era track “Heaven and Hell” surfaced earlier this winter, published by the estate of live band member and frequent collaborator ...

Would there be heavy metal without Black Sabbath? Possibly. But it wouldn’t sound nearly as menacing or as dark (or as awesome) if Black Sabbath didn’t set the template in the early ‘70s.