- Strange Highways
Infobox Album
Name = Strange Highways
Type =Album
Artist =Dio
Released = 1993
Recorded = Rumbo Studios,Los Angeles, California , USA
Length = 53:36
Label =Reprise
Producer = Mike Fraser
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lv8e4j371wai~T1 link]
Last album = "Diamonds – The Best of Dio "
(1992)
This album = "Strange Highways"
(1993)
Next album = "Angry Machines "
(1996)Strange Highways is the sixth studio
album by American heavy metal bandDio . It's also their first album sinceRonnie James Dio andVinny Appice 's reunion tour withBlack Sabbath .First released in 1994 on Reprise Records.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 a his guitarist. In this, and the next album, Dio would take the sound of the Dehumanizer album and build on that, giving this album a very hard, modern feel. Many Dio fans felt betrayed by this, but others viewed it as a nice change from the outdated 80's sound he had relied on before,Lock up the Wolves especially was outdated for its time.Track listing
All lyrics
Ronnie James Dio , all music by Dio,Tracy G ,Jeff Pilson andVinny Appice
#"Jesus, Mary, & the Holy Ghost" (Dio, G, Pilson) – 4:13
#"Firehead" – 4:06
#"Strange Highways" – 6:54
#"Hollywood Black" (Dio, G, Appice) – 5:10
#"Evilution" – 5:37
#"Pain" (Dio, G) – 4:14
#"One Foot in the Grave" – 4:01
#"Give Her the Gun" (Dio, G, Pilson) – 5:58
#"Blood from a Stone" – 4:14
#"Here's to You" – 3:24
#"Bring Down the Rain" – 5:45Charts
Album charts positions
Personnel
*
Ronnie James Dio – vocals
*Tracy G – guitars
*Jeff Pilson – bass, keyboards
*Vinny Appice – drums* Recorded at Rumbo Studios,
Los Angeles, California , USA
* Produced, engineered and mixed by Mike Fraser
* Assistant engineered by Andy Udoff
* Mixed at Record Plant,Los Angeles, California , USA
* Originally mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound,New York City , USA
* Cover illustration by Wil Rees
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