Music journalist Martin Popoff digs deep to detail the records of Dio, the heavy metal outfit fronted by Ronnie James Dio.

As the former figurehead of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his decades-spanning solo band, Ronnie James Dio was one of the finest and most identifiable voices in all of heavy metal. In fact, nowadays it’s ...

Born Ronald James Padavona, Dio's career began in the late 1950s with groups like Ronnie & The Red Caps, Ronnie Dio & The ...

Since the death of singer Ronnie James Dio in 2010, something of a cottage industry has sprung up, dedicated to keeping alive the memory and spirit of the vocalist who starred with Black Sabbath, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Images of explosions, fire and dragons stream across a massive digital screen set behind a band playing the opening chords of Dio's "King of Rock and Roll." The screen switches to ...

Ronnie James Dio came close to joining Sweet in 1979, the band's leader, Andy Scott, said. The British glam rockers were considering a replacement for the departed singer Brian Connolly at the time, ...

Between the album cover (which features the demonic Dio band mascot Murray whipping a chain that has snapped off from an entangled drowning priest) and the lyrics held within that sometimes invite ...

Here is the favorite Ronnie James Dio song of five rock and metal icons. The legendary singer, who died of stomach cancer in ...

Ronnie James Dio's hologram show was an "experiment" and likely won't be repeated. The late seminal artist’s widow Wendy has insisted there are no plans for the hologram shows, which enabled fans of ...

In the years since Ronnie James Dio died in 2010 after battling stomach cancer, there has been a steady stream of reissues. Most recently, there were 2021 expansions of his first two albums with Black ...

Nearly ten years after his death, legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio is about to become the subject of a new film documentary. The film, to be produced by the German music company BMG, will ...

Ronnie James Dio may have died in May of 2010, at the age of 67. But he’s hardly been forgotten. Thanks the efforts of his widow and manager Wendy Dio, the hard rock icon’s legacy has lived on with a ...