DIO — The Last in Line (review)

DIO — The Last in Line album cover Album · 1984 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
ovidiu
I really cannot agree with SOUTHSIDEOFTHESKY reviewer about his low rating for this amazing album!I cannot understand why he gave to this superbe album only 2,5 stars?!?!I respect his opinion,but in the same time I consider that it's a great injustice!For me-this album represents so much-it was something magical and mythical in the communist period of my youth in a forgotten Eastern European country called ROMANIA!I had the chance to get the vinyl from the former YUGOSLAVIA country-the album was edited there-I don't know how legally it was-but having an original vinyl with texts and everything-was something sensational for us!Then-the music-the fantastic opening WE ROCK-was like a WAKE UP,ROCKERS!-and it was absolutely breathtaking!Metal music was forbidden in Romania and the feeling to hear something not permitted by the communist authorities was special!This was the music of FREEDOM and LIBERTY for us,a sign of protest and disobedience against the regime!EGYPT-THE CHAINS ARE ON-was something like the situation in Romania was in these dark days.It was like a protest of DIO-in our imagination-against communism and dictatorship!Evem more-we thought that the cover of the album really express the political situation in Romania during the communist period-The big evil was CEAUSESCU and the slaves at the bottom were the people,the simple citizens of the country,opressed by an inhumane political regime!That was the sense,the meaning and the importance of hard rock music for us,the young of that dark period!And ,this album is sensational from the first to the last song!All are pure anthems and brilliant masterpieces!Dio's voice is amazing and the musicianship on the album is fabulous!I cannot give more ten 5 STARS,but this album worths 100 STARS,because it's wonderful!A monument!
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