DIO — Dream Evil (review)

DIO — Dream Evil album cover Album · 1987 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Stephen
The fourth installment of Dio's solo series, "Dream Evil", marked the first appearance by ex-guitarist of Giuffria and long-time friend of Ronnie, Craig Goldy, replacing Vivian Campbell who decided to join Whitesnake upon the firing of John Sykes. This is also the last album to feature drummer Vinny Appice before his return in 1993. The musical style on this album is pure traditional heavy metal, a plain extension to his earlier works, but Goldy's exceptional guitar delivery is something interesting to watch and listen here, beside the mighty vocal of Dio himself.

The album started off with the uptempo and catchy "Night People", followed with the title track which reminiscent of his classic structure, "Man On The Silver Mountain". "Sunset Superman" displayed a brilliant keyboard by Schnell, thunderous riffs, but unfortunately got sloppy on the chorus. The peak of the album erupted with the epic, "All The Fools Sailed Away". This 7-minutes deep and dark arrangement offered a mesmerizing riffs and a deadly keyboard/guitar combo. "Overlove" shown a bluesy-Black-Sabbath approach and "Naked In The Rain" is another good mid-tempo number. "I Could Have Been A Dreamer" is a commercial power ballad which maybe despised by some but I love this song, it's just simple and beautiful.

"Dream Evil" is one of my most favorite Dio albums of all time, it has a lot of great songs, killer guitars, impressive cover art, good production, and as always, a majestic, heavy, and strong voice. The weakness of this album is probably a predictable pattern and lack of variety in song structure, but if you don't have a big issue with that, this is a wonderful album not to miss.
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