Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward revealed in an interview that he was initially not on board with the idea of replacing Ozzy Osbourne with Ronnie James Dio. Bill Ward has appeared on a podcast, talking about the history of Black Sabbath and reminiscing of the old days, especially the Dio-era. During the conversation with The Eddie…
Black Sabbath’s guitarist Tony Iommi compares Ronnie James Dio and Ozzy Osbourne. He says two vocalists are quite the opposite. Legendary guitarist Tony Iommi looks back on Dio-era yet again, this time on Mercury News. “Two totally different singers”, he says about Ronnie James Dio and Ozzy Osbourne, while mentioning they were both great for…
RONNIE JAMES DIO “Holy Diver” album getting a comic book adaptation. They also set this upcoming release date for 2021. Recently, on SYFY WIRE‘s “Metal Crush Mondays” program new episode, many musicians participated in this live chat. In this episode of the show Whitney Moore joined and which also featured Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Korn’s Jonathan…
Black Sabbath members guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler have paid tribute to Ronnie James Dio. They also tweet for the 10th anniversary of the legendary musician’s death. Legendary heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer 10 years ago (May 16, 2010) at the age of 67. We know for his…
Black Sabbath is a band that many people listen to. In fact, they have been one of the most prominent bands in existence for the last 50 years. During that time, they released 19 studio albums (and several live albums), beginning in 1970 and ending in 2013. If you weren’t sure just how many Black…
Ronnie James Dio was born Ronald James Padavona in 1942. In 1979 he joined Black Sabbath, replacing Ozzy Ozbourne and skyrocketing himself to fame. However, three years later, he would leave the band along with bandmate and drummer Vinny Appice to form their own group. Because of his massive success, Dio’s name was well known,…
When most people hear the name Dio, they probably think of the late heavy metal rocker Ronnie James Dio, who sadly died of cancer in 2010. However, there is another Dio that you should be aware of. Her name is Wendy Dio. Not only was she married to the rocker until his death, but she…
Dio was a heavy metal band that lead vocalist Ronnie James Dio formed in 1982. He had originally been a member of Black Sabbath and wanted to form his own group. Dio took Black Sabbath’s drummer Vinny Appice with him. They chose to call the band Dio because Ronnie James Dio was already well known…
Rufus Publishing is going to document Black Sabbath Dio-era in a book titled Sabbath – The Dio Years. There were some talks about a Black Sabbath biopic which did not happen. However, we are going to see a book about the legendary band now. Also, this follows about Ronnie James Dio’s years in Black Sabbath, the…