Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan, who briefly fronted Black Sabbath in 1983, likens his album with the band to Spinal Tap ...

Photo: Sebastian Bach will headline the annual Rock for Ronnie benefit. Photo courtesy of the artist / Provided by SRO ...

The 1994 Black Sabbath record Cross Purposes was an odd one. Tony Martin was the lead vocalist, Geezer Butler was on bass, and Ronnie James Dio was gone… again. All things considered ...

Kill In The Spirit World (Headless Cross, 1989) Suffused in that synth-glazed, hair-sprayed 80s production that proved so divisive to Sabbath purists, these upbeat verses nail the air-punching ...

Arguably Sabbath’s mightiest power ballad, this Cross Purposes highlight sees Tony Martin continuing to explore his versatility while the band voice the breadth of their light and shade dynamics. The ...

Granted, a lot of people love the work that Sabbath did with Ronnie James Dio, who joined the band and delivered some ... ve been,” said Martin when discussing the record Headless Cross, “A lot of ...

Ronnie James Dio’s career spanned more than 50 years, including stints at the helm of heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath and Rainbow. In October 2006, Dio began touring with former Black Sabbath ...

More than 15 years after the death of heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio, his widow and friends are continuing the fight against cancer on his behalf. On Thursday, Wendy Dio and her friends and ...

We had a Jesus on a cross, and he’d get off and invert ... People write to me and say, “Well, you didn’t know Ronnie James Dio.” Excuse me, but our drummer [Steve Ross] played with Rainbow ...

Sure, Ronnie James Dio gets his due (even if Dehumanizer ... forceful drumming is exemplified on the ultra doomy "The Sign of the Southern Cross." Marked by a desert-wandering bass line and ...

“You can only trust yourself and the first six Black Sabbath albums,” the famous Henry Rollins quote goes, a count that excludes not only the Ronnie James Dio era but the Ozzy-led Technical ...