Dio: Sacred Heart - The Video

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Summary: A Stunning Masterpeice!
Review: Ronnie James Dio has treated all of his thousands of fans to a spectacular laser light show, and feirce operatic heavy metal. Every minute of this video is great, not to mention the towering fire breathing dragon, the huge crystal ball, and fighting knights! Dio's voice is soaring and strong like always and guitarist Craig Goldie rocks like no other. Enjoy the action, any real heavy metal fan would buy this video!

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Summary: Simply, a mystical experience
Review: The Sacred Heart Tour was one of the best metal tours to date. Ronnie puts his vocal cords to the test. Dio rocks the original Philadelphia Spectrum crowd. Personally, my favorite Dio tune, "Time To Burn." The man's voice is superb!

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Summary: I love Dio, but I don't love this.
Review: This DVD starts off good enough, with a great version of King of Rock and Roll, but then it just gets too synthesizer heavy for my taste. The rare A Special from the Spetrum video blows this away in terms of heaviness and song selection. Rainbow in the Dark is good as always but where is We Rock and The Mob Rules. Dio's 2003 Evil or Divine DVD is way better than this. The biggest reason to get this would be for the stage show which Dio won an award for. Most bands don't have cool stage shows like this any more. Why wasn't the concert footage of Hungry for Heaven shown rather than the song just being played during the end credits? Look for a DVD of the Hear 'N' Aid sessions to come out in 2005.

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Summary: Very soaring, very magical
Review: This is a great Dio video, quite extraordinary really. The film wouldve been almost perfect if some things couldve been different. The laser show was extraordinary though I wont deny that. And i honestly enjoy this video as much as I enjoy the videos by maiden ect. but this shouldve been more organized. Like Vinny Appice one of the greatest drummers of all time, he did a fine job and went smoothly with the songs, but he didnt give it alot of effort the entire time he is just hitting the snare and isnt doing the same outstanding drumwork he usually does. At least not on alot of songs, and Jimmy Bain's bass needs to come up alot more. I mean you can hardly even hear it, like on heaven and hell that song is just full of bass most of the time and you can barely even hear it. And claudie schnell shouldve done more keyboard work on sacred heart, it was still good but it could have been better. As for Craig Goldy he was just quite extraordinary and replays the songs exactly the same way vivian campbell did, some even better.But they didnt play enough songs off sacred heart, they only played 3 live which were sacred heart, king of rock&roll,rock&roll children, and well you get to hear hungry for heaven with the credits but still wouldve been better to watch them play it. They shouldve also played just another day and fallen angels. And yes rock&roll children is an amzingly deep song, I dont know why anyone would think its ridiculous, its absolutely perfect. Its all in all a great video I think the first time you see it you will be amazed but after a few times you start noticing the flaws more, but yes it is a metal classic and is worth having. Long Live Rock&Roll!!!

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Summary: A very spectacular live concert video.
Review: This video is an excellent stage show, combining hard driving HEAVY METAL jams with the most spectacular and technical stage show ever. I highly recommend this to any rocker for there collection. This video also shows a young and hot guitarist up and coming Craig Goldie. Rock on.

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Summary: Dio - 'Sacred Heart:The DVD' (WEA)
Review: Well,I've seen Ronnie James Dio perform live six(6)times including on Sabbath's 'Heaven&Hell' trek.I've even met him three times and the second time he actually remember me,by name.The 'Sacred Heart' tour was,no doubt an awesome event,but for some reason,I was more blown away by his 'Last In Line' tour.Don't get me wrong,'Sacred...' is great.Noticed on this DVD that guitarist Craig Goldie had replaced Vivian Campbell(I had sort of forgot about that)but nonetheless,Goldie fills in quite well.I'm unlikely to miss Vinny Appice on the drums.The sound and picture are simply of fantastic quality.All this metal magic,crystal ball action,dragons and swords never left my memory as I saw Dio the year BEFORE this DVD was filmed.Dug pretty much every tune,like the scorching opener "King Of Rock And Roll","Holy Diver","Rock&Roll Children","Man Of The Silver Mountain","Rainbow In The Dark" and "Hungry For Heaven".Very visual.Much worthy of repeated plays.A must-have for all fans of Dio and the metal genre.