Holy Diver (Super Deluxe Edition)
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Holy Diver (Super Deluxe Edition)

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Ronnie James Dio would have turned 80 years old on July 10. Among the greatest heavy metal singers of all time, Dio’s career spanned five decades, touched millions of fans and pioneered his signature “devil’s horns,” one of the most popular hand gestures in the world. Dio also provided vocals and lyrics for some of the most iconic rock albums of all time with Black Sabbath and Rainbow, before establishing his own band Dio as a metal force with their 1983 debut Holy Diver.

HOLY DIVER was a platinum-certified smash and one of the late singer-songwriter’s most groundbreaking achievements. Rhino revisits this epic metal moment on HOLY DIVER: SUPER DELUXE EDITION, available on July 8 as a 4CD boxed set.

The collection comes with two versions of HOLY DIVER. The first is a new mix of the album made by Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot). He used the original analog tapes to remix all nine tracks on the album. The second is a newly remastered version of the original 1983 mix. The SUPER DELUXE EDITION also features unreleased live performances and outtakes, along with a selection of rarities from the era.

HOLY DIVER: SUPER DELUXE EDITION goes beyond the original album with a previously unreleased recording of the quartet performing live in 1983 at Selland Arena in Fresno, California during the Holy Diver Tour. Wyn Davis mixed the concert recording, which spotlights live versions of songs from Holy Diver (“Stand Up And Shout” and “Rainbow In The Dark”), Rainbow classics (“Man On The Silver Mountain” and “Starstruck”), and Sabbath staples, (“Children Of The Sea” and “Heaven And Hell.”)

The SUPER DELUXE EDITION also revisits the Holy Diver recording sessions to uncover unreleased outtakes for several album cuts, including unheard takes for “Invisible,” “Straight Through The Heart,” and a version of “Rainbow In The Dark” that boasts an alternative guitar solo. There’s also an early version of “Evil Eyes,” a song that would resurface on Dio’s 1984 follow-up album, The Last in Line. A selection of rarities rounds out the new collection with mono and stereo 7” single edits for “Rainbow In The Dark” and a version of “Evil Eyes” that was released in 1983 as the B-side to “Holy Diver.”

CD1: Holy Diver (2022 Remix)
(Previously Unreleased - Mixed by Joe Barresi)

  1. Stand Up And Shout

  2. Holy Diver

  3. Gypsy

  4. Caught In The Middle

  5. Don’t Talk To Strangers

  6. Straight Through The Heart

  7. Invisible

  8. Rainbow In The Dark

  9. Shame On The Night

CD2: Holy Diver (2022 Remaster)

  1. Stand Up And Shout

  2. Holy Diver

  3. Gypsy

  4. Caught In The Middle

  5. Don’t Talk To Strangers

  6. Straight Through The Heart

  7. Invisible

  8. Rainbow In The Dark

  9. Shame On The Night

CD3: Live at Selland Arena, Fresno, CA, 1983
(Previously Unreleased - Mixed by Wyn Davis)

  1. Intro

  2. Stand Up And Shout

  3. Straight Through The Heart

  4. Shame On The Night

  5. Children Of The Sea

  6. Holy Diver

  7. Heaven And Hell (including guitar solo)

  8. Rainbow In The Dark

  9. Man On The Silver Mountain

  10. Starstuck

  11. 11 Man On The Silver Mountain (reprise)

  12. Don’t Talk To Strangers

CD4: Outtakes, Singles & B-Sides

  1. Evil Eyes (Wyn Davis remix)

  2. Don’t Talk To Strangers (Take 1 - Joe Barresi mix)

  3. Invisible (Take 1 - Joe Barresi mix)

  4. Invisible (Take 3 - Joe Barresi mix)

  5. Rainbow In The Dark (Alternative Guitar Solo Version - Joe Barresi mix)

  6. Straight Through The Heart (Take 2 - Joe Barresi mix)

  7. Straight Through The Heart (Take 3 - Joe Barresi mix)

  8. Rainbow In The Dark (7” Mono Edit)

  9. Evil Eyes (1983 Version B-Side of Holy Diver)

  10. Rainbow In The Dark (7” Stereo Edit)