


Side four is decorated with an etching of the legendary demon Murry that graces the album’s iconic cover.
RAINBOW IN THE DARK PLUS
It includes the original nine tracks, plus the 1983 B-side version of “Evil Eyes” as a bonus track. In addition, Barresi’s new mix of Holy Diver will also be released on July 8 as a 2-LP set on 180-gram vinyl. The Super Deluxe Edition also features unreleased live performances and outtakes, along with a selection of rarities from the era. The second is a newly remastered version of the original 1983 mix. He used the original analog tapes to remix all nine tracks on the album. The first is a new mix of the album made by Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot). The new Holy Diver: Super Deluxe Edition comes with two versions of the original album. Dio also provided vocals, lyrics, and melodies for some of the most iconic rock albums of all time with Black Sabbath and Rainbow, before establishing his own band Dio as a metal force with their 1983 debut Holy Diver. Click here to view now.Īmong the greatest heavy metal singers of all time, Dio’s career spanned five decades, touched millions of fans and pioneered his signature “devil’s horns,” one of the most popular hand gestures in the world. The complete conversations will be featured in a special ‘Trunk Nation LA Invasion,’ airing on SiriusXM Volume (channel 106) on Friday, July 8th at 2pm ET, with replays over the weekend and available anytime on the SXM App.ĪT THE RAINBOW IN THE DARK also falls on the eve of Rhino’s release of Holy Diver: Super Deluxe Edition, an expansive 40-track boxed set of Dio’s classic debut that will be available the following day (July 8) in 4-CD and digital formats.Īdditionally, the iconic Dio music videos from the album (“Holy Diver,” “Rainbow In The Dark,” “Stand Up And Shout”) have all been newly remaster and upgraded to HD.
RAINBOW IN THE DARK FULL
Click here for more details.ĪT THE RAINBOW IN THE DARK will be hosted by one of Dio’s dear friends, SiriusXM host Eddie Trunk, who will spend the evening in conversation with some of Dio’s musical collaborators and friends, with a full list to be announced soon. The event will be open to the public with limited capacity. To celebrate this historic day, the legendary Rainbow Bar & Grill on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood will host AT THE RAINBOW IN THE DARK, a special event for Dio family, friends, and fans, on July 7 from 7-9PM PT. PHILADELPHIA – Ronnie James Dio would have turned 80 years old on July 10. (Black and white photos throughout plus an 8-page 4-color photo insert.Holy Diver (Super Deluxe Edition) Featuring Remixed And Remastered Versions Of Dio’s 1983 Platinum Debut, Along With Unreleased Outtakes, Live Recordings, And Rarities, Available July 8 From Rhino (Black and white photos throughout plus an 8-page 4-color photo insert.) Written with longtime friend of thirty years and esteemed music writer, Mick Wall, who took up the mantle after Ronnie’s passing, Rainbow in the Dark is a frank, startling, often hilarious, sometimes sad testament to dedication and ambition, filled with moving coming-of-age tales, glorious stories of excess, and candid recollections of what really happened backstage, at the hotel, in the studio, and back home behind closed doors far away from the road. Prior to his tragic death in 2010, Ronnie James Dio had been writing his autobiography, looking back on the remarkable life that led him from his hometown in upstate New York to the biggest stages in the world, including the arena that represented the pinnacle of success to him-Madison Square Garden, where this book begins and ends.Īs Ronnie contemplates the achievement of a dream, he reflects on the key aspects that coalesced into this moment-the close gang of friends that gave him his start in music, playing parties, bars, frats, and clubs the sudden transition that moved him to the microphone and changed his life forever the luck that led to the birth of Rainbow and a productive but difficult collaboration with Ritchie Blackmore the chance meeting that made him the second singer of Black Sabbath, taking them to new levels of success the surprisingly tender story behind the birth of the Devil Horns, the lasting symbol of heavy metal his marriage to Wendy, which stabilized his life, and the huge bet they placed together to launch the most successful endeavor of his career…his own band, Dio.Įverything is described in great detail and in the frankest terms, from his fallout with Blackmore, to the drugs that derailed the resurrection of Black Sabbath, to the personality clashes that frayed each band. The long-awaited autobiography by one of heavy metal’s most revered icons, treasured vocalists, and front man for three legendary bands-Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Dio.
