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Dio - Lock up the Wolves Audio CD

A fair review of the Dio "Lock up the Wolves" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Dio reviews here, or go back to the Dio tabs.

Dio Band: Dio
Title: Lock up the Wolves
Rating:
Release Date: 2008-11-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Wild One 2: Born on the Sun 3: Hey Angel 4: Between Two Hearts 5: Night Music 6: Lock Up the Wolves 7: Evil on Queen Street 8: Walk on Water 9: Twisted 10: Why Are They Watching Me 11: My Eyes

classic dio
the drums and bass and vocals,are very good. very good cd, maybe not a good as the legendary holy diver cd, but it has fantastic sound and great guitar work. overall i think this cd is awesome. classic vintage metal at its best.


Better Than Dream Evil but Not Quite Right
He found some 18 year old kid to play guitar on this one and added a former AC/DC drummer as well. So at this point Dio was just re-shuffling his lineup from album to album which most of the time isn't a good thing. While there are some very good songs on here like "Wild One", "Lock Up the Wolves", "Walk on Water" and "My Eyes" for the most part it's a pretty boring album. Most of the songs are the same mid-tempo rockers that Dio loves to do and they don't really contain anything memorable as far as riffs or melodies. I'd recommend this one over Dream Evil but just barely.


Great Underrated Dio Cd
When I listened to it the first time, I thought Vivian Campbell was back in the band. This is a great underrated Dio Cd. Rowen Robertson rocks!! This along with the Doug Aldrich Dio Cd and Craig Goldys first Dio Cd are the best ones without the original Dio lineup. Great cd!!.


Lock up the Wolves - An excellent album
Most of the songs are a bit slower in BPM than many of his other songs but that 'slowness' gives the music more of an intensity. Lock up the Wolves is my favorite Dio album. The lyrics are pretty typical Dio. There is a lyric in 'Twisted' that I really like: "They told me I was guilty so I thought I did the crime. " I love it. . . !

Rowan Robertson (guitars) was something like 17 or 18 when he recorded with Dio. He sure can play! I would like to hear more from him.

One thing I really like about the recording is the clarity of it. The recording is so good I take the CD with me when I demo stereo equipment.

I highly recommend this recording.


A step down, but still not bad
It was the first Dio album in three years and featured a whole new band. In 1990 Ronnie James Dio released the fifth Dio album, Lock Up the Wolves. The results were very mixed, ranging from excellent to mediocre.

Like every other group Ronnie James Dio has ever been associated with, the musicmanship here is first-rate. The new band features drummer Simon Wright of AC/DC fame, and he fills Vinnie Appice's shoes very well. Bassist Teddy Cook is actually an improvement over Jimmy Bain; his lines are no less solid but much more interesting to listen to. Keyboardist Jens Johansson, formerly of Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, is not featured very heavily on this album but does a great job of adding texture. The new guitar player is an eighteen year old kid named Rowan Robertson, and he's actually very impressive, displaying a tasteful combination of chops and melody and coming up with some killer riffs. As for the vocals. . . well, it's Ronnie James Dio. He's at his absolute best here; this may well be his finest recorded vocal performance. This album is superbly recorded as well.

The songwriting is unfortunately where this album falls a little flat. Certainly there's great material here, but it's surrounded by an awful lot of filler. Interestingly enough the fast rockers, which are usually high points on a Dio record, are amongst the weakest tracks on the album with "Wild One", "Night Music", and "Walk On Water" coming across sounding generic and tired. One notable exception is the wonderfully paranoid "Why Are They Watching Me", which rocks. The songs which stand out on the album are slow yet heavy in a way that reminds me of Black Sabbath. Such songs include "Born On the Sun" which is the best track on the album, "Between Two Hearts" featuring some killer riffs, and the epic "Lock Up The Wolves". There are also a couple of interesting departures from the norm on this album, such as the blues-meets-metal "Evil On Queen Street" and the world-weary ballad "My Eyes".

Overall there's more good than bad here, but after four classic albums in a row (not to mention the classics he'd previously recorded with Rainbow and Black Sabbath) we'd all come to expect a lot more from Ronnie James Dio. This is worth picking up, but I'd at least get Dream Evil, Holy Diver, and Master Of The Moon first.


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