“You can only trust yourself and the first six Black Sabbath albums,” the famous Henry Rollins quote goes, a count that excludes not only the Ronnie James Dio era but the Ozzy-led Technical ...

Ronnie James Dio's albums with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell and Dio helped define what a hard rock singer can ...

Iommi says the Dio years challenged Black Sabbath to up their game and RJD would ... and that the Ronnie James Dio era gave us some of Sabbath’s strongest moments as the band rebounded from the the ...

Mad as it seems, so far in this century, a sizeable piece of the Black Sabbath story ... say that The Tony Martin Era – interrupted in the middle by the return of Dio for 1992's Dehumanizer ...

Black Sabbath‘s 1979 split ... and the Ozzy ongs.” Despite Dio’s displeasure, Appice says the singer did an excellent job tackling the Osbourne-era material. “It was totally different.

Black Sabbath, which performed the Spokane Coliseum ... The iconic band was reinvented. The short-lived Dio era, which also yielded 1981’s solid “Mob Rules,” found Sabbath veering from ...

Black Sabbath have ... more what people would expect Sabbath to sound like.” The news will please fans, who have been calling for the oft-overlooked Martin-era to be made available again for ...

Filling huge boots, Dio replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath in 1979 ... there are some people who will tell you the Dio-era records are “not real Sabbath albums.” These people are fools.