Ronnie James Dio: Heavy Metal Icon Returns From The Dead In Germany
Ronnie James Dio passed away in 2010 after battling stomach cancer. On Saturday, Germany held their heavy metal Wacken Open Air music festival and fans were stunned when they saw what appeared on the stage. They saw Dio, in hologram form, perform as it yelled out the heavy metal anthem �We Rock.� The Dio hologram also flashed the famous �devil horns� hand gesture that Ronnie made famous. The group that created the hologram, Eyellusion, came from across multiple music and technical industries and has taken over a year to come to fruition. Their goal was to create a believable hologram of Ronnie Dio that could be used with the band Dio Disciples, a group that formed to keep performing the music of Dio. The band formed shortly after Dio�s death. Wendy Dio, Ronnie�s widow, commented about seeing her late husband on stage once again. �I cried the first time I saw it. It was quite, quite scary. Our crew, when they first saw it at rehearsal, they were in tears. It�s abso...