Starpulse — Happy Birthday to: Heavy Metal Legend Ronnie James Dio (1942; d. 2010) Singer/actres/tuna lover Jessica Simpson (1980) "American Wedding" actor Thomas Ian Nicholas (1980) Brand New singer Jes... more info

Guardian Music — The latest trend in heavy metal is dark metal, or so I'm told. And the T-shirts, and the music that goes with them, are something elseFashion's peculiar love affair with heavy metal appears to have taken another twist. The Iron Maiden T-shirt shown h... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Little is known about LAKE R▲DIO, a dude named Caden Moore who makes what some people call "witch house", a sort of downtempo electronica that provides a darker side to chillwave. He's made his debut EPs, The Weather and Blair, available for free.... more info

411 Mania — The year was 1985 and heavy metal became so controversial that Congress stepped in to see if music needed a warning label. This is the story of what happened. Plus we have the greatest music from 85 with albums from Megadeth, Yngwie Malmsteen, Celt... more info

DrownedInSound — The first couple of things I knew about California's dios were that Travis Keller from Buddyhead is a big fan and also that the now-dead Ronnie Dio tried to push some kind of silly lawsuit at them over their name. Very shortly after this it was reali... more info

ContactMusic — OZZY OSBOURNE is keen to rebuild his relationship with former BLACK SABBATH bandmate TONY IOMMI following the death of their mutual friend RONNIE JAMES DIO.The Prince... more info

Thrash Hits — Because we’re a bunch of bell-ends, we buggered the sound up at the start of our interview with Colin Edwin, bassist and all-round top chap from prog-heavyweights, Porcupine Tree. That’s why there’s very little serious muso-talk, and lots and l... more info

Thrash Hits — Airbourne were one of only two bands that didn’t join in for our headliner sing-a-long question. However, they more than made up for this by being as mad as a fridge full of spanners when they went onstage, so we’ll let David Rhodes off. more info

Thrash Hits — When we first interviewed Shane Embury from Napalm Death at Bloodstock Open Air 2008, he told us we asked “fucking stupid questions”. That hasn’t changed a bit in the last two years, but this time he seemed to take our jibber-jabber a bit more ... more info

Thrash Hits — Corey Taylor was busy, so we had a chat to a caffeine-fuelled Roy Mayorga, drummer with Stone Sour, backstage at Download Festival 2010 before they headlined the Ronnie James Dio Stage. We talked about Stone Sour playing at the SAME TIME as Aerosmith... more info