Dio - Holy Diver - 180g Import Vinyl LP - New & Sealed - Rainbow - Black Sabbath
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New & Sealed Italian import on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl
Originally released on 25 May 1983.
The cover, with art by Randy Berrett, features the band mascot "Murray" spinning a priest in chains around waves. Murray is also featured on several other Dio albums.
"Holy Diver" - at its surface, this song is about Satan, and his descent to Hell (his "dive"). But according to Dio the main character isn't really the Devil. "The song 'Holy Diver' is really about a Christ-figure, who on another place, not Earth, has done exactly the same as we've apparently experienced or were supposed to have experienced on Earth: dying for the sins of man so that man can start again and be cleansed and do it properly," he told Sam Dunn for the film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.
"Caught in the Middle" shares the main guitar riff with Campbell's previous band Sweet Savage's song "Straight Through the Heart" (1983), whose title was used for another song in this album.
The album was certified gold in the US on September 12, 1984, and platinum on March 21, 1989.
In the UK it attained Silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in January 1986, at the same time as "The Last in Line".
In 2017, it was ranked 16th on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time"
Label:
Vertigo & Mercury
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180 Gram
Country:
Italy
Released:
Aug 2021
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