Dio’s debut single “Holy Diver” was originally intended to be a Black Sabbath song, said Ronnie James Dio’s widow. He had already formed the song when his first stint with Sabbath ended acrimoniously ...

Stranger Things and heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio come together in Stranger Things 4, the new season of the nostalgic Netflix sci-fi series that arrived last week. Among the episodes, the ...

Between the album cover (which features the demonic Dio band mascot Murray whipping a chain that has snapped off from an entangled drowning priest) and the lyrics held within that sometimes invite ...

Several years before Ronnie James Dio was diagnosed with cancer, the heavy metal music icon began writing his memoir. Now, his fans will get to read the singer’s story in his own words. When Dio had ...

He would reach top speed, in many respects, on Sacred Heart, which took the successful formula of recent years -- best exemplified by the rip-roaring speedster, “King of Rock and Roll” and the ...

Ronnie James Dio onstage in 2007 with Heaven and Hell at Arena Spodek in Poland. Credit: Marek Krajcer (Maross)/Wikimedia Commons If you’re looking for the scribe who fits the bill or “World’s Most ...

The first documentary film about Central New York music legend Ronnie James Dio is finally coming to DVD and Blu-ray — with extra footage. The acclaimed rockumentary, “Dio: Dreamers Never Die,” will ...

Dio: Dreamers Never Die (now on Showtime) is the long-awaited documentary about the greatest heavy metal singer who ever was or will be. Sorry Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson, Ozzy Osbourne and King ...

It wasn’t just his mighty pipes that made him Ronnie James Dio — it was his moral fervor. With Black Sabbath classics like “Heaven and Hell,” or Eighties solo classics like “Holy Diver” and “The Last ...