Dio - Hey Angel

Owning all of RJD’s work from Rainbow, Sabbath and Dio. Lock Up The Wolves have emerged as my most played album of his catalog. Maybe of about 500 albums/tapes/downloads/CD’s that own too. Rowan Robertson for me is a monster guitarist. If Tony Iommi, Bruce Kulick and Uli Roth had a skill mixer machine. Rowan would be the product. His solo’s are a complete song itself. The beginning is attention grabbing , the middle is like a tsunami swelling and the ending is a national disaster exploding and running you over knocking you out. The songwriting here is A plus. RJD is scary and heavy and evil and magical. The riffs are doom royalty level and modern and bluesy at the same time. That is a very difficult thing to achieve. The result is metal perfection. The title song is so good that 8 minutes sounded like 2 minutes . In fact, most of the songs are 6 minutes, but never a time it felt dragging. Every song is like a momentous trip to the heavy metal dark street and you will not notice that you have already listened to the whole album and wanting to repeat it again. I can talk about thia album for hours. Definitely my top 10 most favorite album of all time. Hope you like my playlist.