Metal in Mourning

[Bu🤠ns]

Also my wife was saying that she read that Dio got the horns idea from his Italian grandmother who used it as a cultural superstition to ward off evil. 

Funny how that works.  Course, citation needed and such.

[AFK]

It's true and it's pretty well documented.  There was that documentary that this Canadian guy Sam Dunn did called "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", in it he interviews Dio on a couple of occasions and that was pretty much the story he gave. 

By the way, anyone who likes metal should see that film.  It airs on VH1 Classic every once in awhile.  It's great because it isn't the typical "history of metal" documentary, it really is more of an anthropological/cultural examination of Metal and the metal community. 

[AFK]

I love Bruce Dickinson, and Rob Halford.  Both great metal voices.  But for me, Dio's voice just had that extra element, that everything he sang sounded metal.  It's hard to really describe in words. 

I know EXACTLY what you're talking about.  Even the more bluesy material from his Rainbow days had that 'edge' to it.

Also I have to agree with every artist listed in your post but I also feel obligated to recognize Geoff Tate in terms of vocalists. 

Yeah, I agree.  I didn't list him I think because I'm still bitter about how much Queensryche has sucked since Empire.  They were one of my favorite bands when I was younger and it was disappointing watching them go from the masterpiece of Mindcrime to the WTF? of Hear in the Now Frontier. 

[Bu🤠ns]

HA yeah I don't really relate to that album much.  My two standards are Mindcrime and The Warning

[AFK]

Oh look, the Westboro Church is planning on "paying their respects" at Dio's public memorial service

http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/sick-church-planning-on-picketing-the-funeral-of-ronnie-james-dio/

I wonder if they've ever seen a mosh pit before.  That is how metal heads treat other metal heads, who they LIKE. 

I hope they have good insurance. 

[Suu]

He hates God. Pay especial attention to the fact that he changed his original sir name from Padova to Dio, which means God in Italian.

"Especial" attention. Pay it.

[AFK]

Heh, they haven't discovered yet that the Dio logo upside down reads DEVIL. 

Though, it's all stagecraft.  Not witchcraft or satanism.  And actually, I read that he and his wife Wendy were praying at the end. 

Talk about Law of Fives run amok.