Favorite DIO Solo Album

I thought we already had a poll up for the best/fave DIO solo album but I didn't find one on the search. Here's my top 3:

1. Angry Machines
2. Strange Highways
3. Master Of The Moon

1. Holy Diver
2. Last In Line
3. Dream Evil

Witchfinder wrote:

1. Holy Diver
2. Last In Line
3. Dream Evil

Great top 3! I recently listened to the early DIO albums for the first time in a long time and forgot how good all three of those albums are. I had gotten burned out on the first two just by hearing the major songs from them on the radio that I neglected the albums as a whole. The deep cuts are equally as good.

I ranked them all for my RYM page:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Larmer28/ranking_dio_albums/

Holy Diver is the obvious choice. It's a heavy metal classic.

Witchfinder wrote:

1. Holy Diver
2. Last In Line
3. Dream Evil

That's my exact top three, as well.

Lari wrote:

I ranked them all for my RYM page:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Larmer28/ranking_dio_albums/

Holy Diver is the obvious choice. It's a heavy metal classic.

Wow! My top 3 are your bottom 3!

akeldama wrote:

Lari wrote:

I ranked them all for my RYM page:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Larmer28/ranking_dio_albums/

Holy Diver is the obvious choice. It's a heavy metal classic.

Wow! My top 3 are your bottom 3!

Yeah, I'm a little surprised by how much you like Angry Machines.

But good for you, I guess. I never could get into it.

Lari wrote:

akeldama wrote:

Lari wrote:

I ranked them all for my RYM page:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Larmer28/ranking_dio_albums/

Holy Diver is the obvious choice. It's a heavy metal classic.

Wow! My top 3 are your bottom 3!

Yeah, I'm a little surprised by how much you like Angry Machines.

But good for you, I guess. I never could get into it.

I think because of my love for Doom and Stoner so the downtuned, dirge-y stuff with thick bass and well-placed drum fills on that album make it #1 for me. That trifecta of Dehumanizer, Strange Highways and Angry Machines is just

1. Dream Evil
2. Sacred Heart
3. Last in Line

akeldama wrote:

Lari wrote:

akeldama wrote:

Lari wrote:

I ranked them all for my RYM page:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Larmer28/ranking_dio_albums/

Holy Diver is the obvious choice. It's a heavy metal classic.

Wow! My top 3 are your bottom 3!

Yeah, I'm a little surprised by how much you like Angry Machines.

But good for you, I guess. I never could get into it.

I think because of my love for Doom and Stoner so the downtuned, dirge-y stuff with thick bass and well-placed drum fills on that album make it #1 for me. That trifecta of Dehumanizer, Strange Highways and Angry Machines is just

Do you like Lord Weird Slough Feg?

They are probably the only "stoner" band I really like. I'm usually into straight forward, melodic, FAST stuff.

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Do you like Lord Weird Slough Feg?

They are probably the only "stoner" band I really like. I'm usually into straight forward, melodic, FAST stuff. [/quote]

To be honest I haven't listened to them before. I've heard of them but never jammed them. What do you recommend for starters?

1. Strange Highways
2. Angry Machines

Not really a fan of the rest of them.

Mine is Holy Diver, but Last in Line is right there with it.

akeldama wrote:

lari wrote:

Do you like Lord Weird Slough Feg?

They are probably the only "stoner" band I really like. I'm usually into straight forward, melodic, FAST stuff.

To be honest I haven't listened to them before. I've heard of them but never jammed them. What do you recommend for starters?

Can't really say as I'm sort of new to them myself. Should probably ask the more knowledgeable fans about recommendations. I only own Traveller, but it's great.

And they are only "stoner" in quotation marks. I just hear a lot of stoner elements, and that's as close to stoner I can get. It's traditional riff-oriented heavy metal.

Going back to Dio, I have Doug Aldrich probably in my top 10 favourite guitarists ever. Too bad he only did one album with Dio. But those live DVDs are both awesome.

Last In Line barely edges out Holy Diver then Sacred Heart followed by Dream Evil.

1. Holy Diver
2. Last In Line
3. Sacred Heart

Holy Diver
Dream Evil
Strange Highways

Holy Diver
Dream Evil
Last In The Line

Witchfinder wrote:

1. Holy Diver
2. Last In Line
3. Dream Evil

Mine as well. I definitely need to give angry machines a fresh spin though.

Holy Diver. Last In Line is a close second.

Holy Diver followed by Last In Line. I also like Lock Up the Wolves.

I'll need to buy a couple of Dio albums first and get back to you on this one.

Not sure how anyone could pick "Angry Machines", even in their top ten!

candlemass wrote:

Not sure how anyone could pick "Angry Machines", even in their top ten!

There's exactly ten Dio studio albums.

Angry Machines sits firmly at #10 unless the hologram decides to release a new CD.

Angry Machines would be at the bottom of my list too but I still think it's a decent enough release.