DIO - Strange Highways (1993)
DIO - Strange Highways (1993)
EAC | FLAC-IMG+CUE+LOG+Scans => 389 MB | 53:44 min | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps => 122 MB
Genre: Heavy Metal | Label: Vertigo / Phonogram Ltd. (London) # 518486-2
EAC | FLAC-IMG+CUE+LOG+Scans => 389 MB | 53:44 min | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps => 122 MB
Genre: Heavy Metal | Label: Vertigo / Phonogram Ltd. (London) # 518486-2
Strange Highways is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Dio. It's also their first album since Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice's reunion tour with Black Sabbath. After the short lived Dehumanizer reunion with Black Sabbath, Dio and Appice returned to Dio's solo group. Due to Dio's hard feelings toward Craig Goldy at the time, he hired Tracy Grijalva as his guitarist.
The final Warner Bros. release for Dio after an 11-year run of hard-edged post-Sabbath recordings, Strange Highways is almost a return to early '80s form for a group that hadn't done anything particularly inspiring since 1984's Last in Line. Joining the band's namesake vocalist Ronnie James Dio on this 1994 release is an all-star lineup, including long-time drumming cohort Vinny Appice, bassist Jeff Pilson (most notably of Dokken, and an nice addition to the group, especially live), and unknown guitarist Tracy G. Dio is in fine voice as usual, especially on "Hollywood Black" and the emotive opener "Jesus, Mary & the Holy Ghost." G. provides a nice, generally staccato guitar flow that harkens back to the glory days when Vivian Campbell filled the six-string slot in the group's finest lineup. Original drummer Appice seems to have lost some energy, tone, and sharpness by the time of this release, which is too bad considering that he had formerly personified all those qualities. As a unit, however, Dio prove they can lay down some deadly riffs, as songs like "Pain" and "Firehead" keep a nice momentum going throughout this return to solo work for Ronnie James Dio after a brief second tour of duty with Black Sabbath. Strange Highways is a solid effort with some of Dio's better late-career material, powerful singing, and strong performances from G. and Pilson.
– Review by Vincent Jeffries, allmusic com
Tracklist:
01. Jesus Mary & The Holy Ghost
02. Firehead
03. Strange Highways
04. Hollywood Black
05. Evilution
06. Pain
07. One Foot In The Grave
08. Give Her The Gun
09. Blood From A Stone
10. Here's To You
11. Bring Down The Rain
All Lyrics and Melodies written by Ronnie James Dio.
Produced, engineered and mixed by Mike Fraser.
All thanks goes to the original ripper!
EAC extraction logfile from 23. December 2006, 21:22 for CD
Dio / Strange Highways
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Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
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44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
Other options :
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Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
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Filename J:\Dio - Strange Highways.wav
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Range quality 100.0 %
CRC 8282CB15
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Disc ID: 00165a65-00c1b12b-900c980b
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Dio / Strange Highways
Used drive : LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-165P6S Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename J:\Dio - Strange Highways.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
CRC 8282CB15
Copy OK
No errors occured
End of status report
Disc ID: 00165a65-00c1b12b-900c980b
Track [ CRC ] Status
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