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DISCID=ef129f10
DTITLE=Black Sabbath / The Dio Years
DYEAR=2007
DGENRE=Metal
TTITLE0=Neon Knights
TTITLE1=Lady Evil
TTITLE2=Heaven And Hell
TTITLE3=Die Young
TTITLE4=Lonely Is The World
TTITLE5=The Mob Rules
TTITLE6=Turn Up The Night
TTITLE7=Voodoo
TTITLE8=Falling Off The Edge Of The World
TTITLE9=After All (The Dead)
TTITLE10=TV Crimes
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TTITLE12=Children Of The Sea (Live)
TTITLE13=The Devil Cried
TTITLE14=Shadow Of The Wind
TTITLE15=Ear In The Wall
EXTD=Originally Released April 2, 2007\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The original lineup of Black Sabbath possesses such a mythic quality that it's easy to overlook how far they slid by the time Ozzy Osbourne up and left the band...or how far they rebounded after
EXTD= they hired Rainbow singer Ronnie James Dio as his replacement. Countless compilations over the years have preserved the initial part of the story line -- celebrating the innovations of the first four albums with a near fetishistic quality -- but the
EXTD=re has never been a good retrospective concerning the Dio years until Rhino released the aptly titled The Dio Years in early 2007. True, the Dio years didn't last all that long -- the singer joined in 1980 for Heaven & Hell, then lasted through one m
EXTD=ore studio album, the following year's Mob Rules, before departing under a shroud of controversy after 1982's botched live album Live Evil -- but Dio had a powerful impact upon the band and its legacy; these were the last years that Sabbath exerted p
EXTD=ull as an active band, and after his departure they stumbled through various singers over the next decade before intermittently reuniting with Ozzy in the '90s. The Dio Years proves that during his brief time with the band, Dio did help Sabbath make 
EXTD=music that could hold its own with some of the classic lineup's finest moments. With Dio as a frontman, the band was harder, nastier, and a little faster than the slow sludge of the early Sabbath records, but it fit in nicely with the New Wave of Bri
EXTD=tish Heavy Metal at the beginning of the '80s and it's aged very well. Some of it can sound silly -- Dio's lyrical obsessions always do -- but this is harder, heavier, better music than either Technical Ecstasy or Never Say Die! Anybody who's refused
EXTD= to give this latter-day incarnation of the band the time of day might find this compilation revelatory.  -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nThe idea of Black Sabbath without Ozzy Osbourne was a form of metal sacrilege in 1980
EXTD=, at least until people heard Ronnie James Dio belt out "Oh no, here it comes again..." to open the reformed band's Heaven and Hell. Dio's low-growl had a yowl, squaring frightfully with Tony Iommi's more reined-in crunch. And Sabbath was reborn, pla
EXTD=ying faster than they had with Ozzy and drawing crowds. Five tracks from Heaven make it to this set, where four from successor, Mob Rules, show up. The winners from each: "Neon Nights" and "Turn Up the Night," both quick, hefty wailers, steamrolling 
EXTD=on sheer riffing tonnage. Dehumanizer rekindled the Sabbath/Dio marriage in 1992, showing speed metal's intervening influence--and the band holds up well, racing atop Vinnie Appice's iron-armed drums and Iommi's relentless, intentionally range-limite
EXTD=d riffs. Then there are the three new tracks, all benefiting from 2006's richer low-end production and metal's return to a slower grind--where Iommi is more thrilling doling out sludge, as on "Shadow of the Wind," where chords sound slo-mo and blesse
EXTD=dly narrow in range. Yes, "Ear on the Wall" closes the set in a hurried, fast- (not speed-) metal vibe, but at best the band is deliberately mid-tempo, making a raucous noise you're happy for after all these years. --Andrew Bartlett \n\nAmazon.com Pr
EXTD=oduct Description\nHonoring the time Ronnie Dio spent with the band, Black Sabbath's hits "Neon Knights," "Lady Evil," and "Die Young" are featured on this compilation spanning 1980-2006. David Ling contributes liner notes and live versions of "Child
EXTD=ren of the Sea" and "Country Girl" are showcased. \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nNot quite what I had hoped for, but..., May 12, 2007 \nBy  Justin Gaines "Corporate Rocker" (Atlanta, GA)\nI have mixed feelings about this particular compilation. On o
EXTD=ne hand, it's long past time that the legendary Ronnie James Dio's groundbreaking tenure with Black Sabbath was given some sort of retrospective. I mean, let's give credit where credit is due. Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules are touchstones of the power 
EXTD=metal genre. \n\nOn the other hand, all of the comments leading up to this release were in reference to a box set similar to the Ozzy-era Black Sabbath box. As nice as it is, The Dio Years isn't what many of us were expecting. I own the Castle reissu
EXTD=es of the Dio Sabbath albums (except for Dehumanizer, which was not reissued), and while they have been remastered to some extent, the sound quality pales in comparison to the remastered material on The Dio Years. These albums deserve a high quality 
EXTD=remastering. I just hope it happens someday. \n\nThat aside, The Dio Years is an (almost) perfect look back at Dio's time in Black Sabbath. Appropriately, most of the songs come from Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules (though the omission of "Sign of the So
EXTD=uthern Cross" is nearly unforgivable), with a pair of Dehumanizer tracks and a token song from Live Evil. The album is rounded out by a trio of brand new studio songs which, I think it's safe to say, are the reason so many of us coughed up our hard-e
EXTD=arned cash in the first place. All three are good doomy slabs of metal (even the faster-paced "Ear in the Wall") that would have been right at home on Dehumanizer. They're not on par with the classic material (then again, what is?), but it's still wo
EXTD=rth the price of the disc just to hear some new Black Sabbath studio material. \n\nBlack Sabbath: the Dio Years may not be quite what I expected, but it's still a nice overview of some of the most important, yet criminally overlooked, albums in metal
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