Last In Line Gets A Record Deal

The early members of Dio are back together in a new group called Last In Line. This means Vivian Campbell, Vinny Appice, Jimmy Bain and Claude Schnell will once again share a stage. The group's singer is Andrew Freeman (you might know him from Lynch Mob).

The exciting thing is that Frontiers just picked up Last In Line, so that means an album is forthcoming. If you take a listen to the video below, you'll note it's just straight up metal. Not a lot of scene chasing going on here, which is great.

Comments

[Roy]

Nice to see Vivian Campbell ripping it up old school again.

[JAT]

Not digging the singer so much.

[Him]

There are numerous reasons to question this outfit, going out under this banner, playing Dio music (a nod to the new album appears below before any of you start getting froggy). To be perfectly clear, there are some similar reasons to do those very things when it comes to _Dio Disciples_. Approved from on high, or high on finally "being able" to play these songs freed from the constraints of Dio proper, many (if not most) of you know these reasons. If I were forced to pick one of the two vehicles, I really couldn't. Both are working at cross purposes that strike me as going well beyond celebrating the music.

But I will keep it polite. All of them are talented musicians, new singer included. And it is nice to see VC doing something that isn't a musical equivalent of a glucose spike. Moreover, it is good to see them recording new music as a new band.

Though one wonders: how many of these new songs will get the crowd going, and how many will get played, when they hit the road again?

I suppose, at the end of the day, anything that draws fans to Dio's music will have to do now that he isn't around. I just happen to think one of the two traveling bands mourns his loss more than the other. Which points to one thing: people get hurt in a business like rock.