Rainbow in the dark
The inspiration for the monster guitar riff came from something Viv had written when he was 16. He writes: “Lyrically, it was Ronnie James Dio at his poetic best…Musically, ‘Rainbow In The Dark’ was also the band’s first truly collaborative endeavor. In the illustrated liner notes that accompany the Super Deluxe Edition, music journalist Mick Wall shares the album’s creation story, including the making of its crown jewel, “Rainbow In The Dark.” After writing both “Holy Diver” and “Don’t Talk To Strangers,” Dio then assembled an amazing group of musicians, two familiar faces and one fresh recruit, with drummer Vinny Appice (Dio’s Black Sabbath bandmate), bassist/keyboardist Jimmy Bain (Dio’s Rainbow bandmate) and guitarist Vivian Campbell joining him to record the Holy Diver album.
The album also ranks #16 on Rolling Stone’s current list of “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.”Īfter departing Black Sabbath in early 1982, Dio began composing songs that would eventually appear on the album.
The same artwork is also used for the 4-CD Super Deluxe Edition.Ĭritically acclaimed and a commercial success, Holy Diver contributed two timeless classics to the heavy metal canon – “Rainbow In The Dark” and its title track.
The vinyl is kept in a gatefold sleeve that shows off newly commissioned artwork by longtime Dio artist, Marc Sasso. Side four is decorated with an etching of the legendary demon Murry that graces the album’s iconic cover.
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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 be released the same day as a 2-LP set on 180-gram vinyl ($34.98). The Super Deluxe Edition also features unreleased live performances and outtakes, along with a selection of rarities from the era.īarresi’s new mix of “Holy Diver” is available today digitally as a preview to the new album mix. 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 collection comes with two versions of Holy Diver. Rhino revisits this epic metal moment on Holy Diver: Super Deluxe Edition, available on July 8 as a 4-CD boxed set ($59.98) and digitally. Holy Diver was a platinum-certified smash and one of the late singer-songwriter’s most groundbreaking achievements. Dio also provided vocals and lyrics 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. (Aug."At 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.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. King or the Shustermans’ Challenger Deep, balances humor, existentialism, and Rainbow’s mental health with great aplomb. Relayed chiefly through an enthralling second-person perspective, this dark yet hopeful tale, ideal for fans of A.S. Rainbow also meets Chad01, an ornery warrior, as well as fast-talking mystic Lark and her twin brother Owlsy, a rational scholar, all of whom are Lost Kids, attempting seemingly nonsensical and never-ending quests to open a portal to homes they no longer remember. Memories featuring “The Eternal God/dess of Teen Depression,” a suicidal immortal who keeps failing to kill themselves, whom Rainbow imagines and wrote about for an assignment, intersperse recollections of an argument with CJ, and a subsequent search for him on a foggy cliff. Blue call boxes generate slips of paper that assign quests or memories in Rainbow’s memories, they are a kid living in a desolate seaside locale with their brother, CJ, older by 18 months, and their single mother. McGinty ( The End of Fun) plays with storytelling and the subconscious as gender- and ethnically-unspecified Rainbow struggles to reconcile memories of contemporary teenage life with their current existence in the Wilds, a video game–esque world featuring RPG-like classes and ranks, machine forests, and glowing fuzzies.