Eagle Rock Entertainment will release a new live Dio CD/DVD/Blu-ray, Finding The Sacred Heart – Live In Philly 1986, on May 28.
The show on the was recorded at the Spectrum in Philadelphia on June 17, 1986, during the second leg of the Sacred Heart tour, which featured new guitarist Craig Goldy. The show was issued in an edited form, first on VHS and then DVD. For the first time, however, the full concert is being released as a double LP in the original running order and with remastered sound.
The full band lineup for the show is Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Vinny Appice (drums), Jimmy Bain (bass), Craig Goldy (guitar) and Claude Schnell (keyboards).
The release features “Holy Diver,” “Don’t Talk To Strangers,” “Rock ‘n’ Roll Children,” “Sacred Heart,” “Stand Up And Shout,” “Rainbow In The Dark” and “We Rock” plus other classics from Ronnie James Dio’s career, including “Heaven And Hell,” “Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll” and “Man On The Silver Mountain.” You can see the complete track listing below.
Finding The Sacred Heart – Live In Philly 1986 will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, 2CD and 2LP. The DVD and Blu-ray versions offer fully restored film footage of the complete concert available for the first time. The audio on the 2CD and double LP is fully remastered. Bonus features (on DVD and Blu-ray) include a Sacred Heart Tour featurette, an interview from 1986 and a separate interview with Dio and Goldy, plus the “Rock ‘n’ Roll Children” music video and a behind-the-scenes feature.
TRACK LISTING:
DVD/Blu-ray/CD:
01.Draco Ignis
02. King Of Rock And Roll
03. Like The Beat Of A Heart
04. Don’t Talk To Strangers
05. Hungry For Heaven
06. Medley: The Last In Line / Children Of The Sea / Holy Diver / The Last In Line (reprise)
07. Drum Solo
08. Heaven And Hell
09. Keyboard Solo
10. Guitar Solo
11. Sacred Heart
12. Medley: Rock ‘n’ Roll Children / Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll / Man On The Silver Mountain / Rock ‘n’ Roll Children (reprise)
13. Time To Burn
14. Stand Up And Shout
15. Rainbow In The Dark
16. We Rock
Vinyl:
Side A: 1) Draco Ignis 2) King Of Rock And Roll 3) Like The Beat Of A Heart 4) Don’t Talk To Strangers 5) Hungry For Heaven 6) Medley: The Last In Line / Children Of The Sea / Holy Diver / The Last In Line (reprise)
Side B: 1) Drum Solo 2) Heaven And Hell 3) Keyboard Solo 4) Guitar Solo
Side C: 1) Sacred Heart 2) Medley: Rock ‘n’ Roll Children / Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll / Man On The Silver Mountain / Rock ‘n’ Roll Children (reprise)
Side D: 1) Time To Burn 2) Stand Up And Shout 3) Rainbow In The Dark 4) We Rock
Every Tuesday–the day that new music comes out–we will be listing the hard-rock and metal releases that hit stores, and every Wednesday we will be offering you, the fans, the chance to pick the Album of the Week. Below, check out the albums, EPs, singles, and DVDs that came out this week; pick your favorite, and feel free to vote as many times as you want. Voting ends on Monday, October 15 at noon, when the results will be announced.
UPDATE: The poll is closed. Thanks for your vote. To view the results, click here.
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It’s Tuesday–the day that music comes out–and this one sees shit from Between the Buried and Me, Converge, Coheed and Cambria, KISS, and more hitting stores. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you have already or are planning to pick up.
- The 69 Eyes – X
- The Acacia Strain – Death Is the Only Mortal
- All Time Low – Don’t Panic
- August Burns Red – Sleddin’ Hill, A Holiday Album
- Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence
- Beyond All Recognition – Drop Dead
- Blackmore’s Night – A Knight in York
- Blut Aus Nord – 777 – Cosmosophy
- Coheed And Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension
- Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
- Danko Jones – Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue
- Daylight Dies – A Frail Becoming
- Defiler – Nematocera
- Dio – The Very Beast Of Dio: Vol. 2
- Downfall Of Gaia – Suffocating In The Swarm Of Cranes
- Inhale Exhale – Movement
- KISS – Monster
- Nonpoint – Nonpoint
- Sylosis – Monolith
- Texas In July – Texas In July
- Trash Talk – 119
- Weapon – Embers and Revelations
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A 15-disc box set containing Ronnie James Dio’s best singles is slated to be released in late August.
According to Hennemusic.com, Dio: The Singles Collection includes the band’s classic Vertigo/Universal singles presented as replicas of the original releases, plus a DVD of the corresponding music videos.
The 14 CDs include 48 songs from 14 previous singles. The DVD includes 12 videos.
The singles include:
“Holy Diver”
“Rainbow in the Dark”
“The Last in Line”
“We Rock”
“Mystery”
“Rock N Roll Children”
“Hungry for Heaven”
“King Of Rock N Roll”
“I Could Have Been A Dreamer”
“All The Fools Sailed Away”
“The Dio EP”
“Jesus Mary and the Holy Ghost”
In other Dio news, a new Ronnie James Dio tribute album is expected in 2013. The project, which is being organized by Ronnie’s wife/manager Wendy Dio, might include contributions from Metallica, Anthrax, Rob Halford, Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan, Alice Cooper, Glenn Hughes, Sebastian Bach, Chris Jericho and Dave Grohl.
Dio died in 2010 at age 67.
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Today marks the two-year anniversary of the death of the legendary Ronnie James Dio.
A variety of Dio tributes have been paid from all around the metal community, and Canadian metal band 3 Inches of Blood decided to pay homage by releasing a special lyric video for their song “Look Out,” off their latest album, Long Live Heavy Metal.
The track was written as a tribute to Dio and, according to vocalist Cam Pipes, wasn’t an easy song to write.
“It was hard to find the right words for a song honoring Ronnie James Dio, but I hope it is regarded as a fitting tribute to a legendary figure,” he said. “His impact on the metal community will last forever, and though he may have been small in stature, his contribution to the music scene is larger than most will ever achieve.”
Long Live Heavy Metal is out now on Century Media.
Last night, Jack Black and Kyle Gass to the stage on the Late Show with David Letter to perform their song, “Roadie,” off the new Tenacious D album, Rize of the Fenix. Watch the performance below.
Frontman Jack Black made some waves in an interview with Rolling Stone in which he claimed that Nirvana were the “last big rock band.”
“When you think about rock at its origin,” he he said, “and you think of The Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can toward The Beatles, there’s no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.”
He continued, “I contend that the last band to really have that kind of power, I’m gonna say, was Nirvana. Who since Nirvana has been as big as Nirvana, in that way?”
Tenacious D, who recently attended the 4th Annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards to present the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award to Rush, are also featured in the latest issue of Revolver, on newsstands everywhere today and online here.
Rize of the Fenix is out now. You can still stream the album in full here.
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Former Dio guitarist Tracy “G” Grijalva will release a new album featuring songs cowritten with the late Ronnie James Dio. The tracks will feature the vocals of Hydrogyn frontwoman Julie Westlake. As well as the material written for the Dio albums Strange Highways and Angry Machines, the record will also include some of Grijalva’s material following his departure from Dio in 1999.
Grijalva is also currently working on a new book, G: The Dio Years and Beyond the Skull, that chronicles his time in Dio.
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2011 has been a great year for music, as evidenced by the kickass bands and artists we were able to feature on the cover of Revolver this year. Below, you can check out who made the cover of every issue of Revolver that was available over the past 365 days. After you’ve looked at the issues (some of which are still available for purchase here), click here to vote for the Best Revolver Cover of 2011.
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]]>As part of our 2011 wrap-up, we have posted a photo gallery of every Revolver issue that was on newsstands this year (some are still available here). In our poll below, we want you to tell us what the Best Revolver Cover of 2011 was. Feel free to vote as many times as you want. The polls close at midnight EST on New Year’s Eve. Getcha pull!
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