Customer Reviews

Awaken the Demon-Tribut to Dio

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This is a very bad CD. I have been listening to Ronnie Dio for over 25 years and this disc does nothing to honor one of the greatest, if not, the greatest hard rock singer of all time. The problem, no one here can SING! Ronnie can SING! You know, pitch, meledy, phrasing...etc. The artist's, who I had never even heard of, fail badly in attempting to perform these rock classics. Sure the set list is great, but the performances are awful! Those "death metal" bands stand against everything Dio was as a musician. Take my advise...leave this disc alone! It is really bad. If you want to honor Dio, put on Rainbow Rising and enjoy the master!

I found this CD in the Greek Metal Hammer Magazine and I must admit that I was impressed by the work,the bands have done in Dio's greatest hits.Buy it!You won't regret it.

I spent a $1.79 + shipping and I still feel kind of robbed. There's two problems. Most of the singing doesn't live up to what you're use to as a Dio fan. Of course I admit those are some big shoes to fill. And some of the tracks are obviously not the from most professional recordings. I'm waiting on Holy Dio - A Tribute To the Voice Of Metal. Hopefully it's better.

I HAVE BEEN A HUGE ''DIO '' FAN FOR YEARS, AND THIS CD DOES HIM JUSTICE!! EVERY SONG ROCKS - AND SOME BAND'S RENDITIONS ARE VERY INTERESTING AND DIFFERENT...ALL THE SONGS ROCK TOTALLY!! YOU ARE NOT LEFT DISAPPOINTED ,CAUSE ONLY A FEW SONGS WERE GOOD.IF YOU WANT THE DEFINITIVE '' DIO '' TRIBUTE ALBUM- THEN PICK UP THIS BAD BOY TODAY!! YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED.EVEN IF YOU AREN'T A DIEHARD '' DIO '' FAN - THIS CD WILL MAKE YOU ONE...

This is a cd that Dio fans have to check out. The bands are extremely talented. Black Earth rocks. It's a tribute cd that actually does Dio justice.

I'll get straight to the point. I'm a big time Dio fan. If you are also, buy this CD. The best tracks on here are Black Earth's "King Of Rock And Roll", Seven Witches "Shame On The Night", Opposite Earth's "Caught In The Middle", Ion Vein's 'Dont Talk To Strangers", and Inertia's "Invisible". These tracks are wonderfully re-done. Imagika's "Evil Eyes" and Tyrant's version of "Holy Diver" deserve mentioning also. There are a few songs that I thought were horrible, such as Division's versions of "Heaven And Hell" and "Rainbow In The Dark". They played both tracks WAY too fast and the singer needs a little (ok-a lotta) work. The other song that REALLY disapointed me was Aurora Borealis' rendition of "We Rock". Methinks they should replace the "R-O" in "rock" with an "S-U". Not even a singer here, just some idiot pretending he's satan, screaming in some kind of low tone devil gibberish (grow up!). Psycho Dream, Dofka, Steel Prophet do Dio justice. Over all a great CD, however only 4 stars due to two sorry bands...