The idea of carrying on Black Sabbath without Ozzy Osbourne felt unthinkable, but Tony Iommi already had his eye on other vocal powerhouses.

The legendary Ronnie James Dio hated one of his most famous ... "Stand Up and Shout," "Holy Diver," and "Rainbow in the Dark, ...

Black Sabbath released their ninth studio LP Heaven and Hell. It was the first Black Sabbath album to feature vocalist ...

But Dio’s big break arrived in 1975, when he was hired to front Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow ... album of new material in 2009’s ‘The Devil You Know.’ Tragically, Ronnie James Dio was ...

a new Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund benefit album featuring everyone and their mother… including Metallica, who have contributed a nine-minute medley of songs from Dio’s time in ...

[But] I knew we had a cracking album of our own ... be able to take Sabbath to the next level," Dio recalled in his posthumous 2021 biography Rainbow in the Dark. "Full of light and shade ...