This page contains news about Ronnie James Dio related things. The information here comes from various different sources I consider reliable, but I cannot guarantee that all the information presented here would be flawless. I've done my best to filter out all the unfounded rumors, or marked those rumors clearly as rumors.
New year wishes come late this year. Hey, only 4 months have passed since the last update!
Dio the band will do a short European tour this year, starting in May in the UK with two shows, then a few shows in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland before the last show of the tour in Spain.
The line-up for the tour will be the familiar one from Master Of The Moon tour - Ronnie will obviously sing the songs like a singer, Simon will be drumming, Craig playing the guitar, Rudy on bass and Scott plays the keyboards.
Surprise tour comes in August! Heaven And Hell will do another tour together before their new album comes out - it will come out probably in late 2008 or early 2009, no release date has been set yet. This Heaven And Hell tour will take place in the USA, where the band teams up with Judas Priest, Motörhead and Testament for a tour titled as "The Metal Masters Tour". Judas Priest is stated to be the headliner, but it remains still unknown whether it is actually a double headlining tour with H&H.
This probably also puts an end to the rumors about possible Ozzy fronted Black Sabbath tour this summer. Way before the previous Heaven And Hell tour last year, many were saying that the original Black Sabbath will do a special 40th anniversary tour this summer but it is not happening. Instead, Tony, Geez, Vinny, Ronnie and Scott are taking Heaven And Hell on the road again.
The Rules Of Hell is going to be the name of the five-CD box set of remastered Dio-era Black Sabbath albums (Heaven And Hell, Mob Rules, Live Evil 2CD and Dehumanizer). It comes out on Rhino on July 22nd, 2008.
The box set will be newly remastered; it will not use any of the previous remasterings of the albums or the songs. Not even the ones used for the Dio Years CD. It will have new liner notes, but no extra songs --- not even the alternative takes available on some of the single B sides etc.
There are lots of other things that should be reported here. Unfortunately I have to stop writing here - I simply don't have enough time to collect the news here in a timely fashion. The reasons are the usual excuses I've stated here -- kids and the work take all my waking hours these days. I still try to keep the discography and tour date sections in shape, and hopefully some day the kids will let the dad to update this site a bit more too ;)
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