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I know tribute albums are a dime a dozen these days, and most of them are just not worth it, but every once in a while you come across a real winner. Holy Dio is perhaps the best tribute album ever. Instead of the usual cast of unemployed 80's metallers giving halfhearted performances (Paul Di'Anno and Steve Grimmet, I'm talking to you!), Holy Dio is chock full of A-list metal bands paying tribute to the mighty Ronnie James Dio. Bands like Blind Guardian, Fates Warning, Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Doro, and Yngwie Malmsteen are among the artists on this great release. Most of the bands on this 2-discmore… set are traditional metal and power metal bands, but that is a given considering Dio's influence on that genre. The bands cover classic songs from Black Sabbath, Rainbow, and Dio, and do so with lots of style and energy. I'm sure it's blasphemous to say this, but Blind Guardian's version of "Don't Talk to Strangers" might just be better than the original! This excellent (and much deserved) tribute to Dio is a must-have for Dio fans, power metal fans, and just metal fans in general. It can't possibly disappoint.
BOYANPURE@MULTIPLY Tracklist [CD 1]:
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Blind Guardian Kill The King - Primal Fear Egypt(The Chains Are On) - Doro Children of the Sea - Jag Panzer Sign of the Southern Cross - Fates Warning Rainbow Eyes - Catch the Rainbow Long Live Rock n’ Roll - Gamma Ray Country Girl - Swano Tagtgren Gates of Babylon - Yngwie Malmsteen
Tracklist [CD 2]:
We Rock - Grave Digger Man on the Silver Mountain - Hammerfall Holy Diver - Holy Mother Kill the King - Stratovarius Still I’m Sad - Axel Rudi Pell Heaven and Hell - Enola Gay Neon Knights - Steel Prophet Shame on the Nights - Solitude Aeturnus The Last in Line - Destiny’s End Temple of the King - Angel Dust
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. True, the Dio years didn't last all that long -- the singer joined in 1980 for Heaven & Hell, then lasted through one more studio album, the following year's Mob Rules, before departing under a shroud of controversy after 1982's botched live album Live Evil -- but Dio had a powerful impact upon the band and its legacy; these were the last years that Sabbath exerted pull as an active band, and after his departure they stumbled through various singers over the next decade before intermittently reuniting with Ozzy in the '90s. The Dio Years proves that during his brief time with the band, Dio did help Sabbath make music that could hold its own with some of the classic lineup's finest moments. With Dio as a frontman, the band was harder, nastier, and a little faster than the slow sludge of the early Sabbath records, but it fit in nicely with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal at the beginning of the '80s and it's aged very well. Some of it can sound silly -- Dio's lyrical obsessions always do -- but this is harder, heavier, better music than either Technical Ecstasy or Never Say Die! Anybody who's refused to give this latter-day incarnation of the band the time of day might find this compilation revelatory
