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It is one of metal's best albums, and it spawned two of the greatest metal songs of the '80s: 'Holy Diver' and 'Rainbow in the Dark'. Featuring the underrated Vivian Campbell on guitar, this album showed that Dio could do it on his own." [16] In 2017, it was ranked 16th on Rolling Stone 's list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". [17]
Album US Main [19] UK [20] 1983 "Holy Diver" 40 72 Holy Diver "Rainbow in the Dark" 14 46 1984 "The Last in Line" 10 The Last in Line "We Rock" — 42 "Mystery" 20 34 1985 "Rock 'N' Roll Children" 26 26 Sacred Heart "Hungry for Heaven" [A] 30 72 1986 "King of Rock and Roll" — 1987 "I Could Have Been a Dreamer" 33 69 Dream Evil "All the Fools ...
The following is a list of best-selling albums by country. Depends on the measurement, record sales of albums are taken by estimations or certifications. Note that some of the data are incomplete due to a lack of available published data from a number of territories, unlike the United Kingdom and the United States with recognized national measurement firms and certifying bodies such as ...
Strange Highways is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Dio. It's also their first album since Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice 's reunion tour with Black Sabbath . The European release was on Vertigo Records , in October 1993; the U.S. release was on Reprise Records , in January 1994.
The following May, the band released their debut album, Holy Diver, which featured two hit singles – "Rainbow in the Dark" and "Holy Diver" – that gained popularity, in part from MTV. Dio and Bain played keyboards in the studio, but keyboardist Claude Schnell was recruited for live shows in 1983 prior to the Holy Diver tour.
At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987 is a live album from American heavy metal band Dio. It was released on November 9, 2010 [ 1 ] as the first release from Dio's Niji Entertainment Group label . [ 2 ] It features two appearances by Dio at the Monsters of Rock festival at Donington: the 1983 show and the 1987 show (from the Holy Diver and Dream ...
Altogether, the band put out 12 studio albums between ‘78 and 2012, and I’m about to chug a Heineken and rank them from worst to best, for you. 12. Van Halen III (1998)
The Last In Line is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Dio, released on July 2, 1984. It is the first Dio album to feature former Rough Cutt keyboardist Claude Schnell . It became the band's highest-charting album in both the UK and the U.S., reaching number 4 and number 23, respectively ( Sacred Heart would later reach number ...