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

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

This is a power metal filled column, with none of the lighter stuff that occasionally creeps in. The name pretty much says it all. These are Dio’s set at the respective Donnington Festival years. The ...

Dio’s thick, expressive voice gave the band more options for musical exploration than did Ozzy’s somewhat thin, banshee-like wail; as a result, the band sounded more fresh and enthusiastic than it had ...

Dio’s debut single “Holy Diver” was originally intended to be a Black Sabbath song, said Ronnie James Dio’s widow. He had already formed the song when his first stint with Sabbath ended acrimoniously ...

Dio music collectors, it's time to add some key pieces of the legendary musician's history. Niji Entertainment Group have partnered with BMG to reissue four classic records in 2020, with each set ...

The heavy metal music world lost one of its most iconic figures last Sunday when Ronnie James Dio succumbed at age 67 at his Los Angeles home to the stomach cancer he battled for nearly a year. Born ...

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

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 ...

Four latter-era Dio albums will be reissued next year with previously unreleased recordings. “I am very excited to be working with BMG, a label that still has a passion for rock music,” the singer’s ...

It’s time to raise some devil horns and salute Ronnie James Dio. “Dio: Dreamers Never Die,” a rockumentary about the Central New York music legend, will be shown in theaters starting next week. Local ...

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 ...