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    Dio was an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 and led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Dio left Black Sabbath with intentions to form a new band with...
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    James Dio, was an American heavy metal singer. He fronted and founded numerous bands throughout his career, including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and...
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    Elf was an American rock band founded in 1967 by singer and bassist Ronnie James Dio, keyboardist Doug Thaler, drummer Gary Driscoll, and guitarists Nick...
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    comprehensive discography of Dio, an American heavy metal band led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Dio was formed in 1982 after Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny...
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  • southern Sweden Dio-et-Valquières, France Dio-Gare, Mali Diu, India, formerly known as Dio Dio (band), an American heavy metal band Dio - Distraught Overlord...
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  • Sacred Heart is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Dio. It was released on August 12, 1985, on Warner Bros. Records in North America,...
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    founded in 1986, but after 1991 Vaya Con Dios was for the most part a one woman band, centered on singer, lyricist, band leader and producer Dani Klein, reinforced...
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  • album by the American heavy metal band Dio, released in 1983. The album was acclaimed by the music press and is the band's most successful effort. Released...
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    Vinny Appice (category Dio (band) members)
    is an American rock and metal drummer best known for his work with the bands Dio, Black Sabbath, and Heaven & Hell. Of Italian descent, he is the younger...
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    Jimmy Bain (category Dio (band) members)
    a Scottish musician, best known for playing bass guitar in the bands Rainbow and Dio. He also worked with Kate Bush and Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott...
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    player in the glam metal band Dokken and currently classic rock band Foreigner. He has also had an extended stint with Dio in the 1990s. Pilson was born...
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    Dio was an American heavy metal band centred around vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Formed in 1982, the group originally consisted of Dio, guitarist Jake E...
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  • Intermission is the first live album released by the American heavy metal band Dio in 1986 on the label Vertigo Records in Europe and Warner Bros. Records...
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  • Lock Up the Wolves is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Dio, released on May 15, 1990. It displayed a complete change of musician line-up...
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    Vivian Campbell (category Dio (band) members)
    this time the band recorded the song "Hide in the Rainbow" for the Iron Eagle soundtrack, the last song Campbell would record with Dio. A live EP Intermission...
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    Rowan Robertson (category Dio (band) members)
    with the band, Lock Up the Wolves, was released. As a Dio fan himself, Robertson became aware of Craig Goldy's departure from Dio after the band's Dream...
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    Scott Warren (category Dio (band) members)
    musician best known as the keyboardist for the heavy metal band Dio from 1994 until the band's dissolution in 2010. Scott began playing keyboard instruments...
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    Last in Line (category Dio (band))
    in Line is a British rock band formed in 2012 by former members of Dio's original lineup. Their name comes from the 1984 Dio album, The Last in Line. Following...
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    of the band Elf, including their singer Ronnie James Dio, but after their self-titled debut album, Blackmore fired these members, except Dio, recruiting...
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    Craig Goldy (category Dio (band) members)
    the guitarist of the rock bands Dio and Giuffria. Goldy was born in San Diego, California. Before Dio, he played in the bands Vengeance, Rough Cutt, and...
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    Simon Wright (musician) (category Dio (band) members)
    June 1963) is an English drummer best known for his work with rock bands AC/DC and Dio. He started playing drums at the age of 13 and cites Cozy Powell...
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    temporarily left the band in September 1979 for personal reasons. According to Dio, the band initially hired Craig Gruber, with whom Dio had previously played...
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  • spectrometry dios (malos), a rock band from Hawthorne, California, formerly known as "dios" dios (album), an album release in 2004 by dios (Malos) Distal...
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    drummer for two years coinciding with Dio's tenure in the band from 1980 to 1982, and again when Dio reunited with the band in 1991 and 1992. He also backed...
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    the band's retirement in 2017. In 2006 Ronnie James Dio, Iommi, Butler, and Ward reunited as Heaven & Hell, a band which focused on performing Dio-era...
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  • Diamonds – The Best of Dio is a greatest hits collection from heavy metal band Dio. It was released internationally in 1992, but it was never released...
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  • Killing the Dragon (category Dio (band) albums)
    American heavy metal band Dio. It was released May 21, 2002 through Spitfire Records and was produced by frontman Ronnie James Dio. The album was reissued...
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  • Strange Highways (category Dio (band) albums)
    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...
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  • Master of the Moon (category Dio (band) albums)
    of the Moon is the tenth and final studio album by American heavy metal band Dio. It was released on August 30, 2004 in Europe through SPV/Steamhammer and...
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  • heavy metal band Dio and was released in 2005 by Rhino Flashback Records. Multi-instrumentalist and heavy-metal mainstay Ronnie James Dio built up a hefty...
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