Evil or Divine - Dio

This was a contractual obligation album release. For the last few albums before Master of the Moon, Dio was on a different record label (MOTM was first on new one). Anyway, the older record label released a live DVD of the Killing the Dragon tour, and also retained rights to release a companion CD, which they never did until now. That's what this is, a live CD comprised of songs recorded in New York City in 2002 on the KTD tour.

This is not to say it's a bad disc, it's a pretty damn good disc sound wise. There's a few tracks (like Killing the Dragon, Fever Dreams) that sound good live, and I liked having live versions of them. It is, however not the current version of the band, so it might be confusing to someone who saw Dio on tour, and then got a different version of the band (this album has Doug Aldrich on guitar and Jimmy Bain on bass, neither of which are still in the band). Plus it's confusing in it's timing, it should have been released when the DVD was first put out.

However, having said all that, it is Ronnie James Dio live. This is always a great thing. If you don't have any other Dio live albums, you should check it out. If you do have other Dio live, it might be worth it for you for the newer songs played live. Additionally, Amazon's track listing is incorrect. The drum solo and the song "Lord of the Last Day" are not on here. They were to be on, but were removed after press had already been done for the release.