Posts Tagged ‘Heaven and Hell’

Looks like they did cut Dio

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Well, Destructioid confirmed that they cut Dio from Brutal Legend to appease Ozzy.  I’m not surprised, just disappointed.  I’m not sure how they can make a metal game and cut the Voice of Metal out of the game!

They should have cut Ozzy out before cutting Dio. Ozzy doesn’t seem to be interested in metal anymore, just making lame cell phone commercials.

Somebody needs to break it to Ozzy; BlackBerry phones aren’t metal. And the Samsung Jack commercial just makes me cringe.

All that being said, Tim Curry probably isn’t a bad choice to replace Dio, if they really felt that they had to. I don’t know about now, but he used to have a really good voice. (Speaking as a veteran attendee of midnight showings of Rocky Horror, that movie would not be what it is without him. I know it destroyed his career as a ‘serious actor’. But a legacy is a legacy, and that movie is going down in history as a classic.)

The fact that they compromised what was looking to be one of the coolest video games ever to appease Ozzy’s stupid feud is just lame.

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The Top Heavy Metal Singers

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Blabbermouth posted a list of the top 30 heavy metal singers from a Turkish magazine.

A lot of the list is debatable, but the top two, at least, are almost impossible to argue with. In the world of metal, Iron Maiden is one of the defining bands. Bruce Dickinson deserves his spot at the top here.

Now personally, I think the #2 spot is impossible to argue with as well. But that being said, I’m a big Dio fan, much more than I am an Ozzy fan. However, I’m sure Ozzy thinks he belongs up here, and not Dio. What’s odd is that Ozzy didn’t even snag the #3 spot. He’s below Rob Halford, down at #4. Once again, I wouldn’t argue giving Halford the #3 spot. So ultimately, the question is, who belongs at #2? Is it Ozzy, or is it Dio?

And that’s where it gets tough. In terms of outright talent and abilty? Dio wins hands-down. The problem is that Ozzy has done so much to shape heavy metal, both in image and in sound. In both his solo albums and with Black Sabbath, he always surrounded himself with highly talented musicians, and together they created some amazing things.

But since they’re specifying singers, I’ll take the technicality and say that they got it exactly right on the list. Dio is a better singer than Ozzy, in my opinion.

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Bible Black Video Released

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath, with Dio instead of Ozzy) released the music video for Bible Black, the first single from their new album. Now I’ve been a fan of Dio for quite some time, probably even more of a fan of Dio than Black Sabbath, so I had to go out and find the video online when I heard. It took some doing to find a good quality video, but I tracked down a quality Yahoo video embed of Bible Black on Rockdirt.com.

When I saw that the video was animated, my first thought was “what is this? This is not metal!”

But I gave it a chance, and as it turned out, the video does get more metal as it goes on. Also, the song itself rules. The lyrics are classic Sabbath/Dio, and it rules. Also, unlike a lot of music videos, at least they bother to make the video look like it belongs with the song.

I’ll be interested to hear the rest of the album when it comes out. This is starting to sound more and more like a must-have for my music collection.

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