Dio "Dio: Stand Up and Shout - The Anthology (2CDS, Remastered, USA, Rhino Records, R2-73855)"

Dio: Stand Up and Shout - The Anthology is a 2CDS compilation album released May 27th, 2003.

Tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Elf - Hoochie Koochie Lady 05:32
2. Elf - I'm Coming Back for You 03:27  
3. Elf - Carolina County Ball 04:45   
4. Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain 04:37  
5. Rainbow - Starstruck 04:20   
6. Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll 03:49  
7. Black Sabbath - Neon Knights 03:49  
8. Black Sabbath - Children of the Sea 05:30  
9. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell 06:56   
10. Black Sabbath - Turn Up the Night 03:42  
11. Black Sabbath - The Sign of the Southern Cross 07:46
12. Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules 03:14   
13. Black Sabbath - Computer God 06:10  
14. Black Sabbath - Voodoo (Live, 1982) 06:07
15. Dio - Sacred Heart (Live, 1985) 06:23

Time:  01:16:07  

Disc 2

1. Dio - Stand Up and Shout 03:15
2. Dio - Holy Diver 05:54  
3. Dio - Don't Talk to Strangers 04:53  
4. Dio - Straight Through the Heart 04:32  
5. Dio - Rainbow in the Dark 04:15  
6. Dio - We Rock 04:35
7. Dio - The Last in Line 05:48   
8. Dio - Egypt (The Chains Are On) 07:02   
9. Dio - King of Rock and Roll 03:49   
10. Dio - Hungry for Heaven 04:10   
11. Dio - Dream Evil 04:26
12. Dio - All the Fools Sailed Away 07:10   
13. Dio - Lock Up the Wolves 08:30  
14. Dio - Strange Highways 06:54  

Time:  01:15:13

Co-released by Rhino Records & Warner Bros. Records.

Digipak packaging with slipcase.

Note: All selections are full-length album versions.

"Hootchie Koochie Lady" and I'm Coming Back For You" ℗ 1972 Sony Music Entertainment Ice, under license from The Sony Music Custom Marketing Group, a Division of Sony Music, a Group of Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.

"Carolina County Ball" ℗ 1974 MGM Records Inc; "Man On The Silver Mountain" ℗ 1975 Polydor Records; "Starstruck" ℗ 1976 Polydor Records; "Long Live Rock 'N' Roll" ℗ 1978 Polydor Records, all under license from Universal Music Enterprises.

This Compilation ℗ 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1994 & 2003 Warner Bros. Records, Inc. Warner Music Group, an AOL Time Warner Company.

© 2003 Warner Strategic Marketing, Warner Music Group,

an AOL Time Warner Company.

Dio "Angry Machines (Japan, Mercury Records, PHCR-1467)"

Angry Machines is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Dio, released on October 4, 1996, through Mercury Records in Japan, and on October 15, 1996, through Mayhem Records in the U.S. It was the last studio album to feature original drummer Vinny Appice, and guitarist Tracy Grijalva. The album was not commercially successful and vastly underperformed compared to earlier Dio albums.

In 2019, Angry Machines was remastered and announced for reissue in 2020. While the first disc is identical to the original North American and European releases, the second disc contains live tracks recorded on various dates of the Angry Machines tour. The track "God Hates Heavy Metal," exclusive to Japanese pressings of the album, was not included in the reissue. However, this song was released as a standalone 12 inch single for Record Store Day in 2021, featuring "This is Your Life" and a live version of "Hunter of the Heart" as B sides.

Tracklist:

1. Institutional Man 05:08  
2. Don't Tell the Kids 04:19  
3. Black 03:11
4. Hunter of the Heart 04:13   
5. Stay Out of My Mind 07:11  
6. Big Sister 05:36
7. Double Monday 02:56
8. Golden Rules 04:54   
9. Dying in America 04:39   
10. God Hates Heavy Metal 03:42
11. This Is Your Life 03:25

Time:  49:14  

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at Total Access, Redondo Beach, California.

Mastered at Oasis Mastering, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Produced by Ronnie James Dio

Engineered by Wyn Davis

Second engineered by Darian Rundall and Eddie Ashworth

Cover illustration by Paul Gregory

Dio "Holy Diver (1987 Reissue, Holland, Mercury Records, 811 021-2)"

Holy Diver is the debut studio 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 album.

Released on May 25, 1983, the album has been hailed by critics as Dio's best work and a classic staple in the heavy metal genre. The album was certified gold in the US on September 12, 1984, and platinum on March 21, 1989. In the UK it attained Silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in January 1986, at the same time as The Last in Line.

The original vinyl release had a photomontage LP-liner, with images from both Rainbow and Black Sabbath days.

The album was remastered and re-released by Rock Candy Records in 2005. The only notable addition to the original album is an audio interview with Ronnie James Dio. Tracks 10–19 on the 2005 edition are Dio's answers to various questions about the album. The questions are not posed during the interview itself, but can be found inside the CD's booklet instead. The album, along with The Last in Line and Sacred Heart, were released in a new two-CD deluxe edition on March 19, 2012 through Universal for worldwide distribution outside the U.S.

"Caught in the Middle" shares the main guitar riff with Campbell's previous band Sweet Savage's song "Straight Through the Heart" (1983), whose title was used for another song in this album.

The album art is illustrated by Randy Berrett. It features the band's mascot Murray, a demonic creature, pulling or whipping a snapped metal chain and a Catholic priest flailing and splashing around in a body of water, wrapped up and locked in the other end of the broken chain. Dio was quick to argue that appearances are misleading, that it could just as easily be a priest killing a devil, wanting people not to "judge a book by its cover".

Murray is featured on several other Dio albums.

Around the time of making the album, a rise of heroic adventure elements in popular culture (such as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books and role-playing games Dungeons & Dragons) were having influence. "Much of heavy metal took place on similar turf, a realm of dark towers and impenetrable wilderness populated by battles and adversity." When Ronnie James Dio had been with Black Sabbath, "He reverently refurbished and reinvented the band's stately doom with grandiose concepts...Dio found a fertile fantasy framework for the big Sabbath themes of madness and desolation". Dio, who had read Sir Walter Scott, Arthurian tales, and science fiction growing up, had previously used fantasy lyrics in both his 1970's bands Elf and Rainbow respectively. He explained the influence of his youthful reading to an interviewer, saying, "When I became a songwriter, I thought what better thing to do than do what no one else is doing...to tell fantasy tales. Smartest thing I ever did."

The metaphor of "riding the tiger", employed in the song, is attested in a Chinese proverb translated in 1875 as "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount". It had previously found prominent use in John F. Kennedy's inaugural presidential speech of January 20, 1961, as well as in the titles of the far-right thinker Julius Evola's 1961 book and of the American rock band Jefferson Starship's opening song on their 1974 Dragon Fly album.

Tracklist:

1. Stand Up and Shout 03:18  
2. Holy Diver 05:52   
3. Gypsy 03:38   
4. Caught in the Middle 04:18
5. Don't Talk to Strangers 04:53
6. Straight Through the Heart 04:34  
7. Invisible 05:26  
8. Rainbow in the Dark 04:14   
9. Shame on the Night 05:19   

Time:  41:32  

Recording information:

Recorded at Sound City, Los Angeles, CA.

Engineered by Angelo Arcuri, assisted by Ray Leonard

Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, New York

Remastered by Gary Moore at Universal Digital Mastering, London (2005 Rock Candy reissue)

Remastered by Andy Pearce (2012 Universal Deluxe Edition)

Remastered by Steve Hoffman (2012 Audio Fidelity 24K edition)

Illustration by Randy Barrett

Original art rendering by Gene Hunter

Original concept by Wendy Dio