So the creator of the Metal Thread is back! After taking a few months off from mangahelpers due to getting a virus and school I have returned more metal than ever! lol
Lately Ive been listening to a few new bands I found. One of them being Threat Signal which is pretty sick.
I also recently got the newest Eluveitie album and thats been keeping me entertained. What I like about Eluveitie a lot is how they incorporate celtic/folk into the metal genre. It really hits home since I am half Irish and I have even got my dad listening to it who is Irish as well but not as into Death Metal and Metalcore as I am.
Also surprisingly enough I started listening to Limp Bizkit. I originally did not like them at all because of his rap but a lot of the Rap Metal songs like Rollin and Boiler are pretty sick.
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...So today, May 16th at 7:45pm.....Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer. He was fighting it for many months and was just on his seventh round of chemo therapy when I guess enough was a enough and he finally passed at 67 years of age. For those who don't know Dio was the lead singer for Black Sabbath after Ozzy left and they had many strong years going. Also Dio sang for other bands like Rainbow and even went solo for a while giving us great songs such as "Holy Diver" which was covered by Killswitch Engage (just to give a reference for those who don't know him but might know the song). Lately Dio got back together with the Black Sabbath guys under the name Heaven and Hell and I was blessed to get to see them perform live in New York City last year. One of the best performances I have ever seen in that he was 66 and could still rock harder than the average young band. He was really something special and was devoted to his work and was fortunately for me a big corner stone of my personal metal preference and music collection. Metal is a great part of my life and without Dio something would have been missing from it. The only other information I have is from his official website which has the statement his wife Wendy made:
http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/ Best wishes to her in getting through this tough time.