by Bram Teitelman | May 23, 2014 | Columns, Headbangers Brawl
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. It’s been a pretty insane week for comebacks. The first new music...
by Matt Brown | May 16, 2014 | In Memoriam, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/iqMyEalm-JI[/youtube] On this day four years ago, beloved singer and heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer at age 67. Four years later and it’s still very strange and sad to think that will never hear Dio’s voice...
by Metal Insider | Apr 28, 2014 | Today In Metal
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zFAHzwYF1Y[/youtube] Metal Insider contributor Anthony Maisano is listening to a different metal album that was released on that day every day this year. Five years ago today, Dio’s final studio album, a reunion with...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 10, 2014 | Headbangers Brawl
In a recent interview, Black Label Society frontman Zakk Wylde offered up the opinion that Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it wasn’t really Black Sabbath. “You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it’s not Black Sabbath,” he...
by Zach Shaw | Aug 27, 2013 | Label Moves
Last year, Kill Devil Hill (featuring ex-Pantera bassist Rex Brown and ex-Black Sabbath drummer Vinny Appice in its ranks) released its self-titled debut via SPV/Steamhammer Records. And while we knew the supergroup was working on its follow up album, we didn’t...