I would have loved to have seen Heaven & Hell. I would have been devestated if I had been so close to seeing them. I've seen the original Sabbath line-up once which was a great experience for me but I have never seen Dio live.
Dehumanizer is actually a fantastic record mate. I love it. Its a complete, straight forward heavy metal record. Lots of loud, meaty riffs and impressive solo's. Master of Insanity, Computer God, Time Machine and I are from that album. Also Shadow of the Wind was one of three tracks recorded for The Dio Years compilation album and both Turn of the Screw and Bible Black are from the Heaven & Hell record that was released last year. So there may be quite a few tracks on there you dont have?
I is actually one of my favourite Dio era tracks.
I only have the first four Dio records but i do like them. I have the albums he did with Rainbow too. I like all of these records but personally I feel he recorded his best stuff with Sabbath. He's one of the most iconic metal performers to die since I started to get into the genre.
Oh i should thank you for your MBV post in this thread too Jackhammer. I only just realised that you may have thought I never bothered myself with that but I did. I downloaded some MBV and i havent listened to it many times yet but I am liking it.
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