Black Sabbath - The Dio Years
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Artist: Black SabbathEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Neon Knights
- Lady Evil
- Heaven & Hell
- Die Young
- Lonely Is The Word
- The Mob Rules
- Turn Up The Night
- Voodoo
- Falling Off The Edge Of The World
- After All (The Dead)
- TV Crimes
- I
- Children Of The Sea (Live)
- The Devil Cried
- Shadow Of the Wind
- Ear In The Wall
Free Music Notes for The Dio Years
Free Music Review: Life After Death
Hit: 5 Stars
Virtually everybody counted Black Sabbath as being a lost cause following Ozzy Osbourne's being sacked toward the end of the '70s. So, the addition of Ronnie James Dio and the excellence of the two albums he contributed to immediately after the turn of the decade just add to the surprise of Black Sabbath's short-lived renaissance. It's a different band, due mostly to Dio's alignment with more technically-oriented metal (most likely because of his involvement with Ritchie Blackmore in Rainbow) and his assuming the lyrical duties from Geezer Butler. Nevertheless, the first two albums Dio worked on, Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules, are, in their own way, the latter-day equal of Paranoid or Master of Reality, in that they take what was passing for metal and throw it through the Sabbath grinder, ending up with a singularly dark and aggressive sound. This compilation also contains tracks from the later album by the Mob Rules lineup, Dehumanizer. While that album doesn't quite match the two earlier records, it's still a decent effort by a band that had been long-dismissed by the time of its release. One quibble: why release a compilation of tracks (except for one live song and three excellent new ones) from three studio albums? I'd have jumped on remastered reissues of all three albums like a wolf on a virgin deer. Hopefully, if this lineup can stay out of the way of the Osbourne juggernaut, we'll have those reissues and more new material to listen to. Also, check out the Heaven and Hell live album and DVD; it's this Black Sabbath lineup (Iommi, Dio, Butler and Appice) under another name, apparently to avoid confusion with the Osbourne lineup, among other reasons. It proves that each member still has the fire down below burning red-hot.
The Dio Years Poster
The idea of Black Sabbath without Ozzy Osbourne was a form of metal sacrilege in 1980, at least until people heard Ronnie James Dio belt out "Oh no, here it comes again..." to open the reformed band's Heaven and Hell. Dio's low-growl had a yowl, squaring frightfully with Tony Iommi's more reined-in crunch. And Sabbath was reborn, playing faster than they had with Ozzy and drawing crowds. Five tracks from Heaven make it to this set, where four from successor, Mob Rules, show up. The winners from each: "Neon Nights" and "Turn Up the Night," both quick, hefty wailers, steamrolling on sheer riffing tonnage. Dehumanizer rekindled the Sabbath/Dio marriage in 1992, showing speed metal's intervening influence--and the band holds up well, racing atop Vinnie Appice's iron-armed drums and Iommi's relentless, intentionally range-limited riffs. Then there are the three new tracks, all benefiting from 2006's richer low-end production and metal's return to a slower grind--where Iommi is more thrilling doling out sludge, as on "Shadow of the Wind," where chords sound slo-mo and blessedly narrow in range. Yes, "Ear on the Wall" closes the set in a hurried, fast- (not speed-) metal vibe, but at best the band is deliberately mid-tempo, making a raucous noise you're happy for after all these years. --Andrew BartlettHonoring the time Ronnie Dio spent with the band, Black Sabbath's hits "Neon Knights," "Lady Evil," and "Die Young" are featured on this compilation spanning 1980-2006. David Ling contributes liner notes and live versions of "Children of the Sea" and "Country Girl" are showcased.
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