Jumping ahead of the punters
4 Out Of 5 Stars
After the great "Holy Diver," Dio came back with another hard rocking album. However, it was a minor case of the sophomore slumps. After all, there's only so many times you can use the words stone, fire and rainbow before you're making albums that turn into drinking games.
But the heavy riffing, courtesy of Vivian Campbell, still pulverizes with the best of 80's metal, and the title track rocked a great video. There's the super-speed metal of "I Speed At Night" and the epic riff that carries "Egypt." The band had added a keyboardist and he added to the band's sound, beefing up the title track and turning a good hook in "Mystery," the obvious sounding single.
The single may be the most easy-to-catch evidence that Dio always had a way with melody that the metal often disguised. It's what distinguished "Holy Diver" and "The Last In Line" (but started to overwhelm by "Sacred Heart") from run of the mill 80's hard rockers.
After the great "Holy Diver," Dio came back with another hard rocking album. However, it was a minor case of the sophomore slumps. After all, there's only so many times you can use the words stone, fire and rainbow before you're making albums that turn into drinking games.
But the heavy riffing, courtesy of Vivian Campbell, still pulverizes with the best of 80's metal, and the title track rocked a great video. There's the super-speed metal of "I Speed At Night" and the epic riff that carries "Egypt." The band had added a keyboardist and he added to the band's sound, beefing up the title track and turning a good hook in "Mystery," the obvious sounding single.
The single may be the most easy-to-catch evidence that Dio always had a way with melody that the metal often disguised. It's what distinguished "Holy Diver" and "The Last In Line" (but started to overwhelm by "Sacred Heart") from run of the mill 80's hard rockers.
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