A little over three minutes into “Temple Doors,” the opening track from the debut album by Philadelphia doom metal band Crypt Sermon, frontman Brooks Wilson sings the seemingly nonsensical phrase ...

With his long, curly black locks and his wiry, diminutive build, Ronnie James Dio looked the part of a sorcerer — a diabolical rock 'n' roll alchemist, casting a wicked spell over heavy-metal ...

When Wendy Dio, manager and wife of metal legend Ronnie James Ronnie James Dio, confirmed at 3PM EST on May 16 that her husband had died of stomach cancer, the news was especially shocking. Dio had ...

NEW YORK — Even as he endured grueling chemotherapy treatments to rid his stomach of cancer, Ronnie James Dio showed the fiery passion that made him a metal legend, flashing his famous devil’s horns ...

showed the fiery passion that made him a metal legend, flashing his famous devil's horns signal as he lay in a hospital bed. "This hasn't really been a problem for me. Cancer? I'll kick the hell out ...

So, which album will move on to the Championship round of Metal Madness 2017? Vote below for either Dio's Holy Diver or Megadeth's Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! as the Best Debut ...

Following a month of hard-fought battles, our fan-voted Greatest Metal Frontman tournament has come to a conclusion. The late Ronnie James Dio has been named the Greatest Metal Frontman after his ...

singer. The implication being, he could out-sing any of his contemporaries until the day he died, even at 67 years old. Dio may have been small in stature, but his voice was gigantic. The man had ...

Ronnie James Dio, whose soaring vocals, poetic lyrics and mythic tales of a never-ending struggle between good and evil broke new ground in heavy metal, died Sunday, according to a statement from his ...

In the wake of the passing of legendary metal vocalist RONNIE JAMES DIO, there have been countless tributes all over the internet, but one in particular has rubbed DIO fans in all the wrong ways. With ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Even as he endured grueling chemotherapy treatments to rid his stomach of cancer, Ronnie James Dio showed the fiery passion that made him a metal legend, flashing his famous devil's ...

Seminal heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio -- the voice for Elf, Blackmore's Rainbow, Black Sabbath, his own band Dio and, most recently, Heaven & Hell -- has lost his battle with stomach cancer, p… ...