By: ChartAttack.com Staff
Aug. 13, 2008
Molson Amphitheatre
Toronto, ON
By Pete Richards
It was still light out when Heaven And Hell took the stage and opened with "The Mob Rules." Seeing the original "Dio years" version of Black Sabbath onstage together was my personal highlight. Performances of "Sign Of The Southern Cross" and "Children Of The Sea" were phenomenal, as were closers "Heaven And Hell" and "Neon Knights" as the sun went down in what Dio admitted was an "unexpectedly early night."
Due to both his stature and wisdom, I often refer to Ronnie James Dio as the "Yoda of heavy metal," and the guru was cheered heartily and saluted by thousands of the devil-horned hand gestures he's credited with inventing. As he crooned over the thunderous instrumentation of guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Vinny Appice, it was clear that though he may be short in stature, there's no other class of heavy metal vocalist quite like the one-and-only Dio.
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