Dio said the label originally asked for unreleased archival recordings to round out this new compilation, but none existed. "We didn’t do any music that we didn’t put on a record when we started," he ...

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 ...

What began as fondly jamming to the post-Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath tracks "Heaven and Hell" and "The Mob Rules" during Sabbath's Ozzfest 2005 soundchecks eventually led to a reunion with former… By ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Black Sabbath bassist Terry “Geezer” Butler reminisced about his last moments with friend and bandmate Ronnie James Dio in a statement released Tuesday. Also Tuesday, Dio’s family ...

Sharon Osbourne seems to have no hard feelings about Black Sabbath. Even though the band fired her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, the Osbournes have done fine on their own. Black Sabbath eventually reunited ...

With the newly reunited original lineup of Black Sabbath hard at work on a new studio album and a world tour around the corner, it’s hard not to think about the history of the band, and what the late ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Influential heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio, best known for his ...

In 1992, the Mob Rules era of Black Sabbath which notably featured singer Ronnie James Dio, the band reconvened and released the Dehumanizer album. The reunion was short-lived and Tony Martin, the ...

Here’s a fun quote from a recent Songfacts interview with Zakk Wylde: “You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it’s not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it Heaven & ...

The true father of heavy metal shouldn't need defending. Neither should anything that's come from those steel-tipped digits. While his former bandmate, Ozzy Osbourne has lived in the public spotlight, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black Sabbath is dead, and Black Sabbath will never die. Both of these things are true. More than 50 years ago, the Birmingham, ...

Image Credit: David Atlas/Retna Ltd. Heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio, whose eternal wail fronted bands like Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Dio for close to four decades, died today at the reported age ...