hell bent for metal

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Pretty big news, I think: Heaven and Hell, the ver­sion of Black Sab­bath with the one and only Ron­nie James Dio on vocals, has been announced for W:O:A 09.

This is excit­ing because:

1. I’m a huge Ron­nie fan
2. Nope, that’s the only reason

We saw Heaven and Hell when they played in Perth in 2007. Unfor­tu­nately I was a lit­tle late to buy tick­ets – like, a cou­ple of hours late – and all the good seats were taken. The organ­is­ers, for rea­sons known only to them, decided to replace what is nor­mally the stand­ing only area at the front of the stage with rows of seats. So of course, most of the peo­ple down the front stood up, fill­ing a quar­ter of the area, and the rest of use squinted from the back.

The other thing that sucked about that show was that Down played sup­port, so the first time I got to see a band I absolutely love, was from the bleach­ers while a bunch of senior cits snoozed at the front of the stage. For­tu­nately I got to see them in 2008 and they kicked arse.

So any­way, back to the story at hand: WACKEN! DIO! YEAH!

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