Inferno: Last in Live

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.

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]

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

Disc two, 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

References

1. Henderson, Alex. "Inferno: Last in Live - Dio". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
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 2012-06-06. rolling stone dio album guide.
4. Saulnier, Jason (24 March 2012). "Vinny Appice Interview". Music Legends. Retrieved 6 May 2013.