The monumental Rock of Ages is easily one of Def Leppard’s defining heights of song — but it’s also a nice way to describe ...

Kevin Riddles, NWOBHM pioneer and founding bassist of Angel Witch, Tytan, and Baphomet, dies after cancer fight. A true Heavy ...

Black Sabbath are a legendary band that helped define the genre of heavy metal, but in a career that has spanned more than 50 ...

Sebastian Bach, the former lead singer for multi-million selling hard rock band Skid Row, says that one of his biggest heroes delivered his masterpiece just a year before he died. Bach is talking ...

Ozzy and Dio may be Sabbath’s best-known singers, but these bangers with less-famous voices deserve their share of the love ...

Begun by Dio when he was fronting Black Sabbath, it transformed his career and became one of the classic metal tracks of the 80s ...

“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 ...

The late Ronnie James Dio may have been small in stature, but the man who fronted Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio was one of rock’s giants. In 2004 Ronnie the rainbow chaser proved he was also a man of ...

With the late, great Ronnie James Dio on the mic, Black Sabbath had a new energy, and Iommi had a willing accomplice. When it came to guitar solos, Iommi says Dio was an enabler. The story had always ...

Dio’s story begins in a small town in Upstate, New York. Born Ronnie James Padavona in 1948, he was raised in a tight-knit Italian-American family.