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Friday Morning Metal – Dio – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

CHRISTMAS METAL! There’s actually a whole album of this stuff. Not just like Halford’s Winter Songs. Or that one with Christopher Lee. But like Lemmy, Dio, Alice Cooper, and more. It’s not too shabby, though I’ll show my lack of knowledge & say I only recognize a few names up in there. There’s a whole Wikipedia thing on the album.

Dio covering God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen with Tommy Iommi is pretty awesome. Chugga guitar riffs when there’d usually be a gaggle of singers singing and then Dio just belting it out. Fantastic stuff.

Friday Morning Metal – Dio Day

Ronnie James Dio, one of the great metal gods, passed away May 16th 2010. So now you get to hear a ton of Dio. Because he is magical and fantastic.

Rainbow in the Dark – reinforcing that keyboards are metal and should be in more songs.

Holy Diver – It deserves to be in every heavy metal list ever.

Last In Line – There are some creepy borg-lookin guys up in this one.

Stand Up And Shout – Man he’s got some pipes. Also clothes in the 80’s were awesome. Can’t wait for hipsters to bring it back.