Inferno: Last in Live

Inferno: Last in Live
Live album by Dio
Released	February 24, 1998
Recorded	Chicago/Schaumburg, Illinois, USA New York City, USA Bremen, Germany Tokyo, Japan 1996–1997
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	87:27
Label	Mercury (Japan) Mayhem Records (US) SPV/Steamhammer (Europe)
Producer	Ronnie James Dio
Dio chronology
Angry Machines (1996) Inferno: Last in Live (1998) Magica (2000)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10 [2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Inferno: Last in Live (released as Dio's Inferno - The Last In Live in Europe with a different cover photo) is a live album released by the American heavy metal band Dio. It was recorded on their Angry Machines tour in 1996/97. Released in 1998 on Mayhem Records, it consists of tracks from the Ronnie James Dio eras of Rainbow and Black Sabbath, as well as Dio's own material plus a cover of the Deep Purple track "Mistreated".

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Ronnie James Dio (except "Mistreated" written by David Coverdale), music as stated.

Disc one

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Intro"		1:36
2.	"Jesus, Mary & the Holy Ghost"	Ronnie James Dio, Tracy G, Jeff Pilson	3:27
3.	"Straight Through the Heart"	Dio, Jimmy Bain	5:48
4.	"Don't Talk to Strangers"	Dio	6:03
5.	"Holy Diver"	Dio	4:59
6.	"Drum Solo"		4:02
7.	"Heaven and Hell"	Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward	7:29
8.	"Double Monday"	Dio, G, Vinny Appice	3:18
9.	"Stand Up and Shout"	Dio, Bain	4:08
10.	"Hunter of the Heart"	Dio, G, Appice	5:15

Disc two

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Mistreated/Catch the Rainbow"	Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale/Dio,Blackmore	10:11
2.	"Guitar Solo"		3:39
3.	"The Last in Line"	Dio, Vivian Campbell, Bain	6:54
4.	"Rainbow in the Dark"	Dio, Campbell, Bain, Appice	4:56
5.	"The Mob Rules"	Dio, Butler, Iommi	3:37
6.	"Man on the Silver Mountain"	Dio, Blackmore	2:11
7.	"Long Live Rock 'n' Roll"	Dio, Blackmore	4:14
8.	"We Rock"	Dio	5:40

Bonus tracks on Japanese pressings

No.	Title	Music	Length
9.	"After All (The Dead)"	Dio, Iommi, Butler	6:20
10.	"I"	Dio, Iommi, Butler	5:26

Personnel

Dio

• Ronnie James Dio – vocals, producer, mixing
• Tracy G – guitars
• Larry Dennison – bass
• Vinny Appice – drums ^[4]

Additional musicians

• Scott Warren – keyboards

Production

• Moray McMillian, Martin "Ferrit" Rowe – engineers
• Wyn Davies – mixing
• Eddie Schreyer – mastering
• Timothy S. Wright – guitar tech

Charts

Chart (1998)	Peak position
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [5]	40

References

1. Henderson, Alex. "Inferno: Last in Live - Dio". AllMusic . Retrieved March 18, 2012.
2. Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 121. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
3. Nathan Brackett; Christian David Hoard (2004). The new Rolling Stone album guide . New York: Simon & Schuster. p.  239. ISBN   978-0-7432-0169-8 . Retrieved June 6, 2012. rolling stone dio album guide.
4. Saulnier, Jason (March 24, 2012). "Vinny Appice Interview". Music Legends. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
5. "Dio: DIO's Inferno - The Last In Live" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved October 30, 2023.