Ep 21: Holy Diver

In this episode we face evil, magic, wizards, witches, kings, TIGERS and even Ritchie Blackmore to cover one of the most seminal albums of the heavy metal genre: Holy Diver by Dio. Even though we aren’t even close to being worthy to judge such an obvious hard rock deity, we do our best to answer the question of whether this album is still hard as steel or is it all just velvet lies? Along the way we learn..

• How Dio’s career followed an amazing Spinal Tap trajectory from the big band era to the big hair era
• How Dio Invented the universal symbol of metal, the devil horns hand symbol, and why Gene Simmons is full of shit (as per usual)
• Why the band Dio could have been called Richie Blackmore’s Dio
• Who Murray is and the bizarre story concepts behind some of the songs
• Why you might think twice about writing in star light (hint: the words might come out REAL!)

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