Album · Dio
The Last in Line by Dio
The Last in Line is an album by Dio, released in 1984. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “We Rock”, on 1 list with a best position of #513.
The Last in Line, Dio's second album, came out on Vertigo in 1984, with Ronnie James Dio producing it himself at Caribou Ranch. The band he'd built after leaving Black Sabbath, with fellow Sabbath veteran Vinny Appice on drums, grew a limb for this one: Claude Schnell joined on keyboards as a full member, alongside Vivian Campbell on guitar and Jimmy Bain on bass.
It's heavy metal played big and with a straight face. Campbell's riffs slash and churn, Schnell lays a coat of gothic gloss over the top, and Dio's voice soars over all of it like he's addressing a coliseum. "We Rock" charges straight for the fists in the air, while "Mystery" lets a little pop shine through the thunder. It became the band's highest-charting album on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching number 4 in the UK and 23 in the US, went gold that September and in 1987 became the first Dio album to go platinum.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Last in Line on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.