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Presenting The 65th Annual Grammy Nominations For Rock and Metal

November 15, 2022 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The Grammy Awards nominations were revealed earlier today and while this is an extremely lengthy list we are only going to laud the noms for the Rock, Metal and Alternative categories here on the website. A full rundown will be on “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” website after some considerable editing. When we look at this in Word its more than thirty pages but I digress, here now are the nominations of the categories we focus on at the PiercingMetal Media Command HQ.

** Rock **

Best Rock Performance (For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative rock recordings).
“So Happy It Hurts” by Bryan Adams
“Old Man” by Beck
“Wild Child” by The Black Keys
“Broken Horses” by Brandi Carlile
“Crawl!” by Idles
“Patient Number 9” by Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Jeff Beck
“Holiday” by Turnstile
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Now Playing: “Dio: Dreamers Never Die” (9/28/2022)

September 28, 2022 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

It was just over a month ago that we shared the Official Trailer for the BMG documentary “Dio: Dreamers Never Die” which is of course about the legendary and still so very much missed Ronnie James Dio. If you missed our post about that you can click HERE while we wait for you to be more up to speed. The film opens today in limited theaters for a brief time before receiving a streaming and home video release. Down below you’ll find a reminder of the premise and the folks who appear along the documentary. Raise those horns once more for Ronnie!!!

The Storyline: The first career spanning documentary on the heavy metal vocalist to be authorized by the artist’s estate includes scenes with peers, family and friends; never before seen footage; personal photos.
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BMG Presents “Dio: Dreamers Never Die” Official Trailer

August 24, 2022 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The folks over at BMG have produced a documentary about the legendary Ronnie James Dio entitled “Dio: Dreamers Never Die” and you can check out the brief but Official Trailer down below. I’ve also included some of the folks who appear in the film and artwork. Raise those horns!!!

The Storyline: The first career spanning documentary on the heavy metal vocalist to be authorized by the artist’s estate includes scenes with peers, family and friends; never before seen footage; personal photos.
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Ozzy Osbourne & Tony Iommi Close The 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games

August 9, 2022 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The 2022 Edition of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games ended yesterday and as a part of the grandiose closing celebration there was a surprise appearance by Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi. This would be the first appearance by Ozzy on the live stage in about three years. The pair were joined by Tommy Clufetos on drums and Adam Wakeman on bass.

PiercingMetal Thoughts: What more can I add to this? I really don’t think there is a whole lot of discourse to add outside of how awesome it was to see two legendary members of Black Sabbath jamming out to one of their most classic of numbers “Paranoid”. According to some reports they also did “Iron Man” but this was the only Official Video posted on the Black Sabbath YouTube Channel. Everyone sounded great and the two legends were smiling back and forth during the song which had to send satisfying waves through the screen of those watching it like this and for sure to those who were witnessing this in person. I doubt we shall see one more go round for Sabbath in the touring sense but after these pandemic times and the way that the world is turning I surely wouldn’t mind it. What say you all? Chime in down below in the comments and I will see you again soon.

Official: http://www.blacksabbath.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blacksabbath

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Black Sabbath To Release “Paranoid” Super Deluxe Edition For 50th Anniversary This October

August 8, 2020 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The Press Release:
Widely regarded as innovators of the musical genre which came to be known as Heavy Metal, legendary Birmingham-bred Black Sabbath celebrate the 50th anniversary in 2020 of their multi-million selling album Paranoid with a 5-LP/4CD edition released on October 9th, featuring the vinyl debut of two 1970 concerts.

PARANOID: SUPER DELUXE EDITION includes the original album, in addition to a rare 1974 Quad Mix of the album folded down to stereo, plus two concerts from 1970, from Montreux and Brussels, that are pressed on vinyl for the first time. The five-LP set comes with a hardbound book with extensive liner notes featuring interviews with all four band members, rare photos, and memorabilia, a poster, as well as a replica of the tour book sold during the Paranoid tour.

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