How does it compare to the artist's other releases
Good
Value for Money
Advantages:
Dio has returnd to his classical sound and lyrics
Disadvantages:
today Dio's older than in 1983, so he's not as good as then
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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I don't know if you have, but i've been waiting for that for many years. Of course, I loved 'Angry Machines' and 'Strange Highways', but I missed those classical DIO's songs like Holy Diver, Rock'n'Roll Children... You know all those song as good as I do, I suppose. I didn't think it could repeat again. I've got used to new DIO sound (it was great, too, wasn't it?). But here it is! Completely classical, absoulutely new, and fully conceptual album from Ronnie James DIO! I tried to find any weak track but I failed. There are only two negative points. The first (and the worst) - Ronnie, unfortunally, doesn't get younger, so his vocal is not as good as it was twenty years before. But, anyway, his voice is still one of the best on hard rock/heavy metal scene, in my opinion. And the second - track Annica (an excelent instrumental composotion) would hear only those, who'll be lucky enougth to get Japaneese release of Magica. I'm really sure, you HAVE to buy it. Oh, yeah, i've forgotten to tell you: Dio's going to record 'Magica part 2&3' one day. (rather soon, i suppose).
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Magica - Dio
When Heavy Metal Version 1.0 (Megadeth, Judas Priest, etc) died out in the late 1980s, to
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be replaced by Heavy Metal Version 2.0 (Korn, Slipknot) in the 1990s, few expected to ever hear from Ronnie James Dio again. Yet, he and his band soldiered on, an...
Magica -
When Heavy Metal Version 1.0 (Megadeth, Judas Priest, etc) died out in the late 1980s, to
... more
be replaced by Heavy Metal Version 2.0 (Korn, Slipknot) in the 1990s, few expected to ever hear from Ronnie James Dio again. Yet, he and his band soldiered on, an...
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