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A release date for 'Rainbow in the Dark' the autobiography of Ronnie James Dio, was announced in February 2021.

Article content Pat “Fat Pat” Musitano hit the pavement in a blaze of gunfire around noon last July 10 at a Burlington strip mall. The death of the 52-year-old underworld scion appears to have ended a bloody gangland tit-for-tat over southern Ontario drug and gambling rackets. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or HUNTER: Mob murders fall off in wake of Musitano hit Back to video Around a dozen people were killed in the internecine warfare that b...

Black Sabbath has released a newly remastered version of the band's 1972 album, Vol. 4 . In addition to continuing the metal pioneers' dark, heavy sty...

Black Sabbath has released a newly remastered version of the band's 1972 album, Vol. 4 . In addition to continuing the metal pioneers' dark, heavy sty...

Heaven and Hell and  Mob Rules — signaled the remarkable rebuilding of a wayward band and one of the finest moments in metals history concerning a change in singer. With two massive remastered reissues on the horizon, Tony Iommi was gracious enough to speak with us about this pair of timeless releases. These records are historic for many reasons beyond the impressive comeback that came with them. It was a time of complete reinvention of the Sabbath sound, which in large part was due to the...

Heaven and Hell and  Mob Rules — signaled the remarkable rebuilding of a wayward band and one of the finest moments in metals history concerning a change in singer. With two massive remastered reissues on the horizon, Tony Iommi was gracious enough to speak with us about this pair of timeless releases. These records are historic for many reasons beyond the impressive comeback that came with them. It was a time of complete reinvention of the Sabbath sound, which in large part was due to the...

Judas Priests Rob Halford has fronted Black Sabbath a total of three times — twice in 1992 and once more in 2004. According to drummer Vinny Appice, there was the potential for the Metal God to link up with Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and himself on a more permanent basis as the singer lobbied to work together following the death of Ronnie James Dio in May of 2010. As a guest on the "Rock Fantasy" Internet show, Appice discussed the instances in which Halford sung for Black Sabbath. The first ...

A previously unreleased 1979 rehearsal recording of "Heaven and Hell" by Black Sabbath, featuring the late Geoff Nicholls on bass, has now been uploaded courtesy of the late musicians estate. Nicholls, who died Jan. 28, 2017, was a longstanding member of Black Sabbath, although his role with the group was a shadowy one. He is credited with performing keyboards on a total of 10 Black Sabbath albums — everything from 1980s  Heaven and Hell through 1995s  Forbidden — and served as a live me...

February 2021 New Music Releases Medicine at Midnight, the nine-song follow-up to 2017s Ragged Glory-era performance by Crazy Horse. Whitesnakes rootsier side will be explored on The Blues Album, which pulls key songs from studio records released between 1984 and 2011. Elsewhere, the expanded 50th anniversary box set for the Bands Stage Fright presents the 1970 studio project in its originally planned song order. Black Sabbaths reissue of 1972s  Vol. 4 is bolstered by 20 previously unrele...

By Jon Rogo Jan 16, 2021 7:30 AM Ronnie James Dio joined Black Sabbath in 1979 which resulted in two back-to-back killer records: “Heaven And Hell” and “Mob Rules”. On those memorable albums, Dio’s soaring tenor and gothic songwriting were the perfect foil for the band’s bone-crushing mix of razor-sharp riffs, intense grooves, and dark imagery. Rhino salutes the long shadow cast by this short-lived lineup with newly remastered versions of both albums expanded with rare and ...