It was his Black Sabbath replacement, the late Ronnie James Dio, who started ... John Lennon making a hand sign similar to ...

Approximately 176 years ago, the entire metal community voted and agreed to credit Ronnie James Dio (or ... credit for introducing the hand sign into the metal lexicon. While Butler admits that Dio ...

Nearly 30 years after they originally split, the members of Black Sabbath’s second, Ronnie James Dio-fronted line ... the use of the ‘devil’s horns’ hand gesture in metal.