Legendary heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio, best known for his work with Black Sabbath, Rainbow and his own band Dio, died of stomach cancer one year ago on Monday (May 16) at the age of 67.

A three-minute Artisan News Service report in which Dio’s Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell bandmate Geezer Butler, Ronnie’s cousin David “Rock” Feinstein (both played in ELF) and wife/manager Wendy remember the heavy metal legend can be viewed here.

Butler said that Dio was so special “because he had an incredible voice; he was blessed with it. And he loved his fans. He’d talk to his fans after every show until there was nobody left. He was so genuine.”

Dio was renowned throughout the world as one of the greatest and most influential vocalists in heavy metal history. The singer, who was recording and touring with Sabbath offshoot Heaven & Hell prior to his illness, was diagnosed with stomach cancer in late 2009. He underwent chemotherapy and made what is now his final public appearance in April 2010 at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles.

A free public memorial service was held on May 30, 2010 at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, attended by more than 1,500 fans, friends and fellow musicians.

This past March, it was announced that the surviving members of the final lineup of Dio would embark on a project with former Judas Priest frontman Tim “Ripper” Owens under the name Dio Disciples.

His wife and manager, Wendy Dio, still oversees all projects and releases related to the career and music of her late husband.

Slash will be releasing his second solo album, Apocalyptic Love, on May 22.

Stream the deluxe version of Apocalyptic Love exclusively at Rolling Stone  and also available for pre-order at iTunes.

Municipal Waste are set to tour North America beginning May 27^th on a 2-leg headlining run.  The first leg features Black Tusk as support; second leg features 3 Inches Of Blood as direct support & openers Black Tusk.

Their upcoming new album, The Fatal Feast, available now on Nuclear Blast.

Tour dates are:

• 5/25: Las Vegas, NV @ Country Saloon – (Punk Rock Bowling Fest)

1st Leg – Municipal Waste with Black Tusk

• 5/27: Wilmington, NC @ Soapbox Laundro-Lounge
• 5/28: Atlanta, GA @ 529
• 5/29: Orlando, FL @ The Social
• 5/30: Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall
• 6/1: Austin, TX @ The Mohawk / Chaos In Tejas Music Fest ***MW ONLY***
• 6/2: Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
• 6/3: Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory
• 6/5: Tempe, AZ @ 910 Live

2nd Leg – Municipal Waste with 3 Inches Of Blood & Black Tusk

• 6/11: Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
• 6/12: Hollywood, CA @ The Key Club
• 6/13: Oakland, CA @ Oakland Metro Operahouse
• 6/15: Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s Crystal Ball Reading Room
• 6/16: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
• 6/18: Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
• 6/19: Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theatre
• 6/21: Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s Rock Club
• 6/22: Columbus, OH @ Screaming Willies
• 6/23: Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s
• 6/24: Albany, NY @ Bogie’s
• 6/25: Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
• 6/26: New York, NY @ Santo’s Party House

Fans can order The Fatal Feast CD, deluxe digi-pak, or super limited edition pop-up vinyl gatefold here.

View the official video for “The Fatal Feast” on YouTube.

View the official video for “Repossession” on YouTube

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Suffocation and Origin will be embarking on a new European tour, “The End of Humanity” with support by Re Armed and Unbreakable Hatred.  Tour dates are as follows:

07/05 – Hunxe, Germany – Extremefest
07/06 – Pratteln, Switzerland – Extremefest
07/07 – Sankt Poelten, Austria – VAZ Area, Extremefest
07/10 – Cluj Napoca, Romania – Venue TBA
07/11 – Kosice, Slovakia – Collosseum
07/12 – Trutnov, Czech Republic – Battlefield, Obscene Extreme Festival
07/13 – Pecs, Hungary – Rockmaraton
07/14 – Conegliano, Italy – Appartamento Hoffman
07/15 – Rome, Italy – Black Out Rock Club
07/17 – Lyon, France – CCO
07/19 – Colmar, France – Le Grillen
07/20 – Steinbach, Germany – Langenbach, Queens of Metal
07/21 – Kassel, Germany – K19
07/22 – Berlin, Germany – K17
07/24 – Aarhus, Denmark – V58
07/25 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpethuset
07/26 – Braunschweig, Germany – Meier Music Hall
07/27 – Eindhoven, Netherlands – Dynamo
07/28 – Steenwijk, Netherlands – Stonehenge Festival – Suffocation only
07/28 – Obersinn, Germany – Eisenwahn – Origin only

More dates will be announced.

Evile have confirmed dates for a UK headlining tour, which is set to kick off on October 18th in Glasgow.

Following their run around the UK, the band will also be playing a special hometown show on November 3rd at the Holmfirth Picturedrome, dubbed “All Hallows Evile”.  Tickets for the event will cost just £10 and will be available this Friday at http://www.picturedrome.net

Evile drummer Ben Carter comments:

“Evile are damn pleased to announce our UK headline tour in October 2012!  We can’t wait to get back on the road and get back to some familiar places and some new ones, and see some of our awesome Evile fans both at the gigs and at special meet-and-greets!  We always have a great time playing in the UK, and this tour will be no different!  We have a few new tricks up our sleeves as well as some old ones haha – we just can’t wait to unleash our live assault once again!  Get tickets early, tell your friends, hold your parents hostage ’til they buy you a ticket, whatever it takes.  Come to the show, thrash yourselves stupid and we’ll see you at the bar afterwards!  Join Our Cult!!!”

May 28 – Belfast, UK – Ulster Hall (w/ Machine Head)
May 30 – Dublin, Ireland – Olympia Theatre (w/ Machine Head)
Jun. 03 – Exeter, UK – Real Devon Rocks at Exeter Phoenix
Jun. 06 – Reading, UK – Sub89
Jun. 08 – Tampere, Finland – Pakkahuone
Jul. 20 – Luarca, Spain – Luarca Metal Fest
Aug. 12 – Walton-On-Trent, UK – Bloodstock Open Air Festival
Aug. 24 – Wörrstadt, Germany – Neuborn Open Air Festival

Oct. 18 – Glasgow, UK – O2 ABC 2
Oct. 19 – Manchester, UK – Academy 3
Oct. 23 – Newcastle, UK – Academy 2
Oct. 24 – Sheffield, UK – Corporation
Oct. 25 – Birmingham, UK – Academy 3
Oct. 26 – Norwich, UK – Open
Oct. 27 – Oxford, UK – O2 Academy 2
Oct. 28 – London, UK – Garage
Nov. 03 – Holmfirth, UK – Picturedrome

Evile’s new album, Five Serpent’s Teeth, is out now worldwide on CD and limited edition coloured vinyl, and is also available from the Earache Webstore in a range of exclusive “Serpent Cult” fan packs.

Get the album now in Europe at http://bit.ly/c7wbbN or in North America at http://bit.ly/9aOHhw

Five Serpent’s Teeth is also available on iTunes at http://bit.ly/nMSZGC

Watch Evile’s official music video for the track “Cult” at http://youtu.be/s0P2Gr5Ucfk

Official website – http://www.evile.co.uk
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/evileuk
MySpace – http://www.myspace.com/evileuk
Twitter – http://twitter.com/evileuk

Bonded By Blood have posted a video update from their current North American tour.

The band are on the road with Kittie, Blackguard and The Agonist, ahead of the release of Bonded By Blood’s highly-anticipated new album, The Aftermath.

Watch the tour update video at http://youtu.be/4pOhlaqPfS0

Bonded By Blood w/ Kittie, Blackguard, The Agonist

• May 15 – Baltimore, MD – Soundstage
• May 16 – New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre
• May 17 – Hampton Beach, NH – Wally’s Pub
• May 18 – Worcester, MA – Tammany Hall
• May 19 – Boston, MA – Middle East Downstairs
• May 20 – Auburn, ME – Club Texas
• May 21 – Montreal, QC – Club Foufounnes
• May 22 – Ottawa, ON – Mavericks
• May 23 – Hartford, CT – Webster Theatre
• May 24 – Trenton, NJ – Championship
• May 25 – Lowell, MA – Brewery Exchange
• May 26 – Buffalo, NY – Broadway Joe’s (Bonded By Blood headlining show)
• May 28 – Chicago, IL – Fallout (Bonded By Blood headlining show)

The Aftermath is due to be released on July 2nd in Europe and July 3rd in North America.  The album was recorded with producer and former Machine Head/Soulfly guitarist Logan Mader (Five Finger Death Punch, Devildriver, Gojira) at Darth Mader Studios in Los Angeles.

Pre-order The Aftermath now in North America at http://bit.ly/98sIL9 or in Europe at http://bit.ly/c1m9ex

A new song from the album, titled “Restless Mind”, is available to download for free (e-mail address required) at http://www.earache.com/bondedbyblood:

Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/officialbondedbyblood
Twitter – http://twitter.com/bondedbybloodLA

Denial Machine has some upcoming tour dates that you might want to be aware of.  Check ‘em out below:

5-19 at Bobby McGees in Chicago Ridge, IL (with SOiL)
6-15 at Monkey Bar in Milwaukee, WI
6-16 at Tiger O’Stylies in Berwyn, IL
6-29 at Club Fever in South Bend, IN
7-06 at The Rutledge in Nashville, TN
7-07 at The Yellow Bird in Fort Wayne, IN

For more info go to:

http://www.facebook.com/denialmachine/events or

http://denialmachine.fanbridge.com/tourdates/

Prong is currently touring in the UK and Europe celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark Beg To Differ album. Joining mainman Tommy Victor and drummer Alexei Rodriguez are bass players Matt Brunson of Crowbar and former Cradle of Filth bassist Dave Pybus.

Tommy explained the presence of not one but two well know bassists.

“Since Tony Campos (who has been touring with the band and played on Carved Into Stone) is touring with Soulfly, we’ve had to tour with other bass players. Everyone who has toured with us so far has been fantastic and brought their own personal style to Prong. Phil Zeller from Toxic Holocaust did the Crowbar tour. Jason Rapesi who has played with Stone Sour did a few shows with us before that. We were heading to Europe and the guy we had couldn’t do it in the eleventh hour.  Rather than cancel, our friend Matt Brunson from Crowbar stepped in and learned the entire Beg To Differ album in a day and a half!  Then we found out that Dave Pybus who has played with Cradle of Filth, was going to be the tech on the tour. As it turned out, Dave is a massive Prong fan! He learned some of the other songs and has been joining Alexei and I onstage every night. Now we have two great bass players each night! This tour has been a blast!”

Carved Into Stone can be ordered from Amazon here. Be sure to check out the deluxe iTunes edition which features an exclusive bonus track which is a cover of the Rammstein track “Feuer Frei”. Purchase the deluxe iTunes edition here.

Prong’s video for “Revenge…Best Served Cold” can be streamed here.

Prong Live With Clutch and Lionize

• 7/11: Fayetteville, AR @ George’s Majestic Lounge
• 7/12: Lawrence, KS @ The Granada
• 7/13: Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
• 7/14: Vienna, WV @ Fishbone Gill & Grill
• 7/17: New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
• 7/18: Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall
• 7/19: Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
• 7/20: Charlotte, NC @ Amos’ Southend
• 7/22: Richmond, VA @ The National

For more info visit:

http://www.prongmusic.com

http://www.facebook.com/prongmusic

http://www.spv.de

http://www.longbranchrecords.com

Upcoming Shows

MALONE’S BAR & GRILL

Saturday, May 19th @ 7:30

HURRICANE

Hurricane’s first Orange County appearance in over 20 years featuring

Robert Sarzo, Tony Cavazo, Andrew Freeman and Jay Shellen

PLUS OC metal masters

WHITE LIE

Also in the line up are 4 more killer hard rock/metal bands….

STONZ THRO       AVENGING GRACE       LORD MARSHALL       ROSANNA CENCI BAND

Advanced tickets are only $15 for 6 ass kickin’ bands, cheap booze, and get this….After you’ve downed a few tasty beverages and you need food in between a round…or two…or three, we are proudly featuring “Tits N Tacos”. We know…sounds mouth watering. If you’ve never had a pulled pork taco, or a BLT taco, we strongly recommend checking out our big OC hard rock party this Saturday. This show may have sold out by the time you read this. Inquire about tickets through any of the bands listed below. See you Saturday, and don’t forget to bring your drinking hat, your appetite…and of course, horns

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Coming soon…..

• Masters Of Reality (Black Sabbath)…May
• Dagger Dollz (Female Jimi Hendrix Tribute)…May
• Stonebreed…..June
• Contraband (Velvet Revolver)…June
• Malice….July
• La Guns…..August

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