Niji Entertainment and BMG have announced the first two albums in the DIO live album reissue series with “Evil Or Divine: Live In New York City” and “Holy Diver Live” on February 12, 2021. Fans can get an early listen with two tracks launched today, a never-before-released, live version of “Lord Of The Last Day” and a live version of the classic “Holy Diver”. Watch a video for “Holy Diver” now below.
Wendy Dio, who has served as the curator of Dio’s musical legacy and everything that relates to her late husband’s career (including the Ronnie James Dio hologram tour), says: “I am very excited to be working with BMG, a label that still has a passion for rock music. They will be making the complete DIO catalog available again with some interesting surprises.”
Frontiers Music Srl will release “One Shot”, the new solo album from Danish vocalist Ronnie Atkins, album on March 12, 2021. The disc’s first single, “Real”, can be streamed HERE.
“To be honest, I initially had no intention to do a solo album to begin with, but for various reasons, and in particularly my own personal health situation, I finally decided to have a crack at it,” says Atkins.
“Around Easter 2020, and only some six weeks after I was told that everything seemingly looked very positive for my health, I was, unfortunately, diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and told it was incurable, which was devastating news for me. Needless to say, that was a total game changer and I went into kind of a panic situation for a while. But when the dust had settled, I realized there were two ways to approach the situation. I could sit down, accept the facts, and feel pity for myself or I could pull myself up, set some goals, pursue my dreams, and carry on living. And with fantastic backup from my family and true friends, I went for the latter.”
Queensryche’s Todd La Torre has unnveiled a ripping solo track, “Darkened Majesty”.
The track comes off his first solo album “Rejoice In The Suffering” which comes out on February 5 via Rat Pak Records.
Check out the first single HERE.
METALLICA’s James Hetfield performed an acoustic version of Bob Seger’s “Turn The Page” at Joe Walsh’s fourth annual VetsAid charity concert, which took place virtually on Saturday, December 12. Also appearing with the legendary EAGLES guitarist were PEARL JAM’s Eddie Vedder, Jon Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Daryl Hall, Vince Gill, Willie Nelson, Blake Shelton, Steven Van Zandt, Brandon Flowers, Gwen Stefani, Jason Isbell, Ben Harper, and many more.
Video of Hetfield’s “Turn The Page” rendition can be seen HERE.
