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- Shirley Knott
Mob Rules by Black Sabbath from Mob Rules (1981) The second album after Ozzy's departure, Ronnie James Dio brought amazing lyrical ability plus his exceptional vocal style
Egypt (The Chains Are On) by Doro from This is Your Life (2014) Easy connection this. The track is a Ronnie James Dio song. Dio was singing with Sabbath on the last track. The album is a recent tribute to RJD with various people performing Dio songs.
Sign of Satan by Warlock from Burning the Witches (1984) Warlock was Dorothee Pesch's band before she changed the name of the band to Doro
If I can't have you - No One Will by Doro and Johan Hegg from Forever Warriors (2018) A new release. The album is 25 tracks long, a celebration of 35 years on the stage and 20th studio album. Johan is an actual real-life viking and singer of Amon Amarth, one of my current favourite bands. If you saw them perform this song at Wacken, you'll have thought the same thing as me - what an amazing-looking couple those two make, and what god-like children they would have together.
Bark at the Moon by Ozzy from Bark at the Moon (1983) the solo Ozzy headlined Monsters of Rock (Donington) in 1986, in the days when you got one stage, one day and half a dozen acts. Warlock were first on that day. He was of course the original singer with Black Sabbath of our opening track.
A Touch of Evil by Judas Priest from Painkiller (1990) Features Don Airey on keyboards. He played with Ozzy's band on Bark at the Moon. He recorded keyboards for the whole of this excellent album but they were only used on this track.
Heart of a Lion by Racer X from Second Heat (1987) You might even guess from the sound of this track that it's a Priest cover. Plus Scott Travis played drums on the track, having left JP for Racer X
Be my Wench by Omen from Battle Cry (1984) From the debut album of this American classic metal band
Infernal Overdrive by White Wizzard from Internal Overdrive (2018) Only a recent discovery, but unfortunately after this year's Infernal Overdrive album they have decided to split, which is a shame.
My Evil Eye by Gama Bomb from Untouchable Glory (2015) Label mates of White Wizzard (earache records)
Wide Legged and Headless by Blitzkrieg from Judge Not! (2018) An amusingly distasteful song from a recent album by a classic band. Their proudest claim to fame is the Metallica cover of their eponymous song Blitzkrieg.
Among the Dead by Iron Fire from Among the Dead (2016) Danish power metal band
Black Flag by Iced Earth from Incorruptible (2017) For no other reason than the Iron Fire album reminded me of Iced Earth
Flight of the Warrior by Riot from Thundersteel (1988) Now known as Riot V
Riff Raff (live) by AC/DC from If you Want Blood (1978) I'm not big on live albums but there's something very special about this recording of this song and the whole album generally. I remember Tommy Vance playing Let There Be Rock from this album, and letting it run into Rocker. He said it was because he was enjoying it so much, but a friend of mine was sure that it was because he'd gone to the toilet and not made it back in time. The very tentative connection is that Riot supported AC/DC in the mid-late 70s.
That's the list for this week.
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