"I like the closure of going full circle ... As we salute Dio's Holy Diver going double platinum, check out two of the album's biggest songs below.

Dio‘s debut album, Holy Diver, will be reissued this summer to mark what would have been the 80th birthday of the late Ronnie James Dio. The four-CD set, dubbed Holy Diver: Super Deluxe Edition ...

Lee, the band’s lineup solidified: Dio, Appice, former Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain, and guitarist Vivian Campbell, from the Belfast band Sweet Savage. Their first album, Holy Diver, came out the ...

But while Holy Diver was a more mainstream release than the two albums he had done with Sabbath, it’s still indisputably heavy and undeniably sincere, chock full ... on that album," Dio said ...

Listen to Dio's 'Holy Diver' Whether exhorting fans directly via the adrenalin-charged head-banger "Stand Up and Shout," or speaking in riddles throughout much of the album’s timeless doom-laden ...

“He had written ‘Holy Diver’ and ‘Don’t Talk to Strangers’ during the time he was in Black Sabbath, so they were supposed to be Sabbath songs,” Wendy Dio told Full Metal Jackie in an ...

There are currently two editions of Dio’s Holy Diver available for preorder ... exclusive vinyl edition of this classic album. Z2 will issue the full details over the next few weeks.

A canny choice indeed, the 19-year-old Irishman's impressive pallet of techniques and raw passion for his playing shines through from the full ... Holy Diver album and tour was on that guitar - and ...

Ronnie James Dio ... album. He hoped it would be successful. None of us realised how successful it was going to be. “We really had been toying around with things and he had written ‘Holy Diver ...