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Rare 1991 Japanese-only 38-track 4-CD boxed set including the albums 'Holy Diver', 'The Last In Line', 'Sacred Heart' & the exclusive 'Live Tracks', each in their own case with picture sleeve. Comes housed in an outer picture slipcase box with a 60-page Japanese/lyric booklet & original wraparound obi-strip

DIO "Tournado" box set (originally made for the DIO fall 2009 European tour which was cancelled) in a limited edition of 1,500 copies, signed and numbered…

Most people think of the legendary Ronnie James Dio as one of heavy metal's sage elder statesmen, but when his newly minted namesake band performed at the 1983 Castle Donington Monsters of Rock Festival, fresh off the release of its soon-to-be seminal debut album, Holy Diver, the group behaved like a bunch of hungry young upstarts with everything to prove…

The original lineup of Black Sabbath possesses such a mythic quality that it's easy to overlook how far they slid by the time Ozzy Osbourne up and left the band…or how far they rebounded after they hired Rainbow singer Ronnie James Dio as his replacement. Countless compilations over the years have preserved the initial part of the story line – celebrating the innovations of the first four albums with a near fetishistic quality – but there has never been a good retrospective concerning the Dio years until Rhino released the aptly titled The Dio Years in early 2007…

Vi sono opere filosofiche che non rispecchiano i bisogni dell’epoca e neanche quelli della specie. Vengono come da un’altra parte e non si annunciano nemmeno. Ad un tratto qualcuno, non si sa come, entra in rapporto con esse anche se tutto fa pensare che non vi possa essere nessun rapporto. Quale rela­zione infatti si può immaginare tra questo Essai e un comune individuo d’oggi? Quale legame fra un comu­ne filosofo d’oggi e quest’opera? Sembra tutto sconta­to: essa è inutile alla specie, all’individuo, alla filoso­fia. …

Dio's rock-solid 2000 concept album Magica would have better fit the musical climate 15-25 years beforehand, but a good album is a good album. Ronnie James Dio's band's previous studio effort, 1996's Angry Machines, admirably addressed modern, non-traditional heavy metal topics. But the musically superior Magica is rooted in the dark, mystical themes he perfected on Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and early Dio albums. One important factor is the solid lineup, particularly the return of Craig Goldy, the best guitarist Dio's had in his band besides Vivian Campbell. Bassist Jimmy Bain and drummer Simon Wright also return…