Ronnie James Dio: Last News

Megadeth and Killswitch Engage have been announced to headline next year’s Bloodstock festival.Both acts will perform at the bash, which is due to take place from August 10-13, 2023 at Catton Park, in Derbyshire.Making their first ever appearance at the festival, Killswitch Engage will headline the Ronnie James Dio main stage on Friday (August 11), while Megadeth will close the event on the same stage on Sunday (August 13).Other bands set to grace the stage next summer include Devildriver, Fit For An Autopsy, Knocked Loose, and Gatecreeper.Tickets to next year’s festival are on sale now and can be purchased here.This year’s event saw the likes of Behemoth, Mercyful Fate and Lamb Of God perform. The Kunts also appeared.Meanwhile, Megadeth recently shared their new single called ‘Soldier On!’.The song is the latest track taken from their upcoming new album, ‘The Sick…The Dying…And The Dead’, which arrives on September 2.Megadeth previously shared the first track from their new album, – ‘We’ll Be Back’.

Jackass star Steve-O has said he is still “upset” and “offended” by a 2001 Tenacious D song about Ronnie James Dio.The song in question is ‘Dio’, from the comedy duo’s self-titled debut album, in which they sing, “It’s time to pass the torch / You’re too old to rock / No more rockin’ for you / We’re taking you to a home / But we will sing a song about you”.Dio himself, known for his stints in Black Sabbath and Rainbow as well as his own band Dio, approved of the song and later played himself in the film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny and provided vocals for the film’s opening number ‘Kickapoo’.However, in a recent episode of his podcast Steve-O’s Wild Ride!, he disclosed that he still holds a grudge against the track.“I’m very upset with Jack Black’s song about Dio,” he said. “I just felt very offended.

Anthrax singer Joey Belladonna has announced a new tribute band in honour of late metal icon Ronnie James Dio.This past weekend (May 18), Belladonna took to social media to announce that he and his wife Krista have formed a new Dio tribute band, and will be performing four shows in August.Over the course of the tribute concerts, the tribute band will play music from the late Dio’s solo career and his stints in Black Sabbath and Rainbow. According to Belladonna’s official website, the concerts will see Belladonna tackle Dio’s most iconic releases including ‘Holy Diver’, ‘Rainbow In The Dark’, ‘Heaven And Hell’, ‘Neon Knights’ and more.All four of Belladonna’s Dio tribute concerts are due to take place in various cities across Florida.AUGUST 202415 – Captain Hiram’s – Sebastian, FL16 – Piper’s Pub – Pompano Beach, FL17 – OCC Road House – Clearwater, FL18 – Conduit – Winter Park, FLKrista and I are proud to announce our new tribute band to Ronnie James Dio! A night of songs from Dio, Sabbath, and Rainbow!@ronniejamesdio #ronniejamesdio #diocancerfund #anthraxPosted by Joey Belladonna on Saturday, May 18, 2024Tickets to Joey Belladonna’s Ronnie James Dio tribute concerts will go on sale soon via his official website.The legendary Dio died in 2010 following a battle with stomach cancer.

the November 3rd ceremony in the Forest Lawn cemetery in Hollywood Hills.“I was at the funeral last weekend,” the “Simpsons” actor told The Messenger. “You know, sad.

Matthew Perry’s burial location won’t be made known to the public just yet!

according to TMZ. The “Friends” star died unexpectedly on Oct. 28 at age 54 of an apparent drowning at his home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.Perry’s cause of death has been “deferred,” so it’s unknown if he had a relapse after openly talking about his lifelong struggles with addiction, including detailing it in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.” However, authorities believe no foul play was involved and no drugs were found at the scene.

Black Sabbath is set to release a career-spanning autobiography later this year. Titled Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath – and Beyond, the autobiography is due to hit bookshelves on June 6, and will trace the founding Black Sabbath bassist’s personal and professional life. The latter topic will include a recount of Black Sabbath’s multiple line-up changes and internal struggles, as well as the band’s “beginnings as a scrappy blues quartet”, according to an official synopsis.“A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black Sabbath, covering his years as the band’s bassist and main lyricist through his later-career projects, and detailing how one of rock’s most influential bands formed and prevailed,” the synopsis adds.Into the Void is said to include appearances and mentions of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and The Who.

Ronnie James Dio’s ‘Holy Diver’ was originally written for Black Sabbath, his widow has revealed.In a new interview with Loudwire, Ronnie’s widow, Wendy, said Ronnie had written ‘Holy Diver’ and ‘Don’t Talk To Strangers’ during his time with Black Sabbath, intending the songs be performed with them.After he parted ways with Sabbath, the songs became part of the Dio band’s releases.Speaking about how the track ‘Holy Diver’ was an “enormous gamble” in his career, Wendy explained: “Ronnie always did what he wanted to do. He never listened to what the record label wanted or anyone else.

Ronnie James Dio’s estate gave the Stranger Things team the Dio patch worn by new character Eddie Munson in the show.Munson, played by Joseph Quinn, is the leader of The Hellfire Club and a “metalhead”, as the actor told NME recently.The one outfit viewers see Munson in during the new series of Stranger Things includes a denim jacket with a Dio patch covering its back. In an interview on the Netflix website, costume designer Amy Parris has now revealed that the patch came directly from the metal icon’s estate.“I love Eddie.

The Cure‘s albums are set to go up for auction.The LPs, which will go under the hammer in Manchester on June 7 in aid of the BRIT Trust charity, include the band’s albums ‘Disintegration’, ‘Pornography’, ‘Seventeen Seconds’, ‘Head On The Door’ and ‘Acoustic Hits’.

Ronnie James Dio on May 16, 2010, rock music lost an iconic figure. The man whose mighty voice lit up the music of Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven And Hell was truly a unique talent: a vocalist of immense power, expression and innate melodic flair, an elegant lyricist, and a storyteller of rich imagination.  There is magic in the words and voice of Ronnie James Dio.

Everything I know about holograms I learned from either Star Wars or Star Trek. Princess Leia’s glitchy SOS to Obi-Wan Kenobi projected by R2D2 to a bewildered Luke Skywalker. The occasionally malfunctioning holodeck on the USS Enterprise. The acerbic Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I on Voyager. All technologies of the far future — or so we thought.

The Ronnie James Dio hologram has retired from touring, five years after it was debuted at the Wacken Open Air festival. Turns out, despite all that talk of holograms of dead musicians playing concerts around the world being the future, it’s quite an effort to move them around from place to place.“[The hologram] was well received sometimes, sometimes not – it all depends on the people”, says Dio’s wife and manager Wendy Dio, in an interview with Kazagastão.

Black Sabbath song.The track, titled ‘Slapback’, was uploaded to YouTube earlier this month by Gary Rees, the stepson of longtime Sabbath keyboard player Geoff Nicholls and manager of his estate.‘Slapback’ features Ronnie James Dio on vocals, and reportedly dates from the 1979 sessions for the band’s ‘Heaven And Hell’ LP.“I’m not at all happy with it at all,” Sabbath guitarist Iommi told SiriusXM’s Eddie Trunk when asked about the track.