Dream Evil

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Pinfold, William (April 2013). "Dio - Dream Evil: Deluxe Edition". Record Collector (413) . Retrieved December 9, 2013.

Mathis, Shayne (May 15, 2015). "Celebrate DIO's Legacy With This Round-up Of 12 Of His Greatest Songs". Metal Injection . Retrieved February 10, 2021. Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p.99. ISBN 978-1894959315. Sunset Superman’ is one of my most favorite Dio songs. The chorus might be simple but it is based about a powerful riff and the true strength of the song comes from the verses which combine superior riffing with one of Dio's strongest vocal lines. ‘Faces In The Window’ is an upbeat metal tune. Great pace, drive and majestic chorus. This is exactly what made eighties heavy metal so great! Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.Vivian Campbell didn't get on well with Dio, so he left the band after some hostilities and formed Riverdogs, where he wasn't that successful. However, Vivian always knew how to make profitable his stay in Dio's band, that's why he auditioned for Def Leppard and Thin Lizzy. Apart from that, doesn't seem right the fact that Campbell (his right maybe yet he's not elegant) didn't establish good friendships with Dio. They just never got along, then Vivian took advantage of Dio's legacy looking not very chivalrous for that matter. Dream Evil is the fourth studio album released by the American heavy metal band Dio, on July 21, 1987. It features former Rough Cutt members Craig Goldy and Claude Schnell, and includes the singles “All the Fools Sailed Away” and “I Could Have Been a Dreamer”. Dream Evil was Dio’s last album to feature Murray on the cover and also the last to feature drummer Vinny Appice until the 1993 album Strange Highways. It was also the last album to feature bassist Jimmy Bain until the release of 2000’s Magica.

So, a pretty bad album, all in all. Still, there are some highlights and average songs, but I won't recommend this to anyone. Meh, if you're a big fan of Dio's work, I guess you'll enjoy this album, otherwise forget it. Imagine Holy Diver or Last in Line with weaker songs and you get a nice mental picture of what this piece is.

Your computer may be infected with malware or spyware that makes automated requests to our server and causes problems. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Productional values are great, solid and really breath that ‘late-eighties’ atmosphere with heavy drums, wide reverb laden guitars and dense yet supporting keys. The artwork is more than superb and maybe even my favorite Dio album cover. Craig Goldy joined in and understood Dio wonderfully, so a very strong friendship bond was born between them. Some will say he's less talented than Campbell but he fulfills his role as a guitarist. This album reached #43 on the American Billboard: it's late 80's, the goose that lays the golden eggs had disappeared and Dio had to be renewed. That was a tough road in their career, trying to sound like commercial bands but it mostly happened in 90s and it's another business. Dream Evil has a high quality appreciated throughout this whole trip, without fillers. There's a certain distance respecting the first two albums but it at least surpasses Sacred Heart.