Originally Posted by: holy diverListen to DIO, the band, holy diver, last in line, sacred heart, the more recent albums, that is unarguably and undoubtedly metal, like it or not.

i've listened to them all with each and every singer blackmore ever had, as i own all the blackmore recordings. and all i'm saying is blackmore's guitar work is of the hard rock genre, regardless of who was singing ! blackmore stated several times in interviews '' we are a hard rock band, not metal''. yes dio sounds metal but there has to be a valiant effort from everyone in the band as well for metal to exist. rock on, john