On a recent interview on “Rock Fantasy” internet show, drummer Vinnie Appice revealed that Rob Halford wanted to replace Ronnie James Dio in Heaven & Hell after the latter’s death.
Talking about the three times the Metal God sung for Black Sabbath mentioned the following: “There was words talked about maybe carrying on from there (after the last show in 2004) , with Rob. And then there was also talk, after Ronnie passed in 2010, about doing it after that, after the dust settled too, and actually, Rob kept wanting to do it — he wanted to do it. When I saw him somewhere — at an award show — he told me, ‘I’m gonna talk to Tony.’ And then recently, I sent a message over to management about, ‘Hey, we could easily do an album and not even see each other, the way things are done these days, with Rob,'” added Appice, leaving things open-ended.
