These are Ronnie James Dio‘s five best doom metal songs outside of his two stints in Black Sabbath. Leaving Sabbath in the mix would simply make this too easy of a task and there’s some hidden ...

Black Sabbath released their ninth studio LP Heaven and Hell. It was the first Black Sabbath album to feature vocalist ...

But Sebastian Bach believes that Dio’s greatest achievement came with Heaven & Hell, the band in which Dio was reunited with ...

Ronnie James Dio is one of heavy metal’s most legendary lead vocalists, and undoubtedly its most well-traveled, having fronted no less than three classic bands, including the one that took his ...

Photo: Sebastian Bach will headline the annual Rock for Ronnie benefit. Photo courtesy of the artist / Provided by SRO ...

Ronnie James Dio's song 'Holy Diver' sounds like it's about the devil, but it's actually the tale of a polar opposite ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Black Sabbath declared “The End ... and “Mob Rules” (1981), which marked the arrival of Ronnie James Dio for a short stint replacing Ozzy Osbourne -- later reprised ...

The new-look Black Sabbath were equally pleased with their new material. "Tony would tell me how overjoyed he was to finally be able to take Sabbath to the next level," Dio recalled in his ...

Live fill-ins notwithstanding, 10 men have fronted Black Sabbath since their 1968 founding, in stints of wildly varying ...

Black Sabbath are the undisputed godfathers ... enjoyed nearly as much success with former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio, at the helm. But the band’s fortunes took a turn for the worse ...

Would there be heavy metal without Black Sabbath? Possibly ... singers who followed Osbourne's initial successor Ronnie James Dio) somewhat softened their bite, but there’s no getting around ...