Original DIO members reunite to form “Last In Line”

Original DIO Members Vivian Campbell, Vinny Appice and Jimmy Bain Reunite To Form New Band With Vocalist Andrew Freeman

On Friday 19 February, Frontiers Music SRL will release one of the most highly anticipated Hard Rock releases of 2016: the debut album from LAST IN LINE, “Heavy Crown”.  Formed by three original members of DIO including Def Leppard’s Vivian Campbell (guitar), Vinny Appice (drums) and Jimmy Bain (bass) and named after DIO’s 1984 studio album “The Last InLine”, the band are on a mission to bring classic hard rock to fans who can’t get enough of the real thing. The album will be released on CD, CD/DVD (including a bonus track) and digital formats. Pre-order the album here: http://radi.al/LastInLine.

 

First single, Devil In Me was premiered on Planet Rock (UK) and SiriusXM (US) on Monday, November 16th.   The single is now available as an instant grat with digital pre-orders from iTunes: http://radi.al/LastInLineiTunes and AmazonMP3: http://radi.al/LastInLineAmazon.

 

Says guitarist Vivian Campbell, “When we started this project a few years ago, the initial idea was to reunite the original Dio band to play the songs we wrote and recorded with Ronnie in the early 1980’s. Joined by Andrew Freeman on vocals, we played a handful of shows in southern California, the UK, and Japan. It was a limited ambition, but it brought us great joy in reconnecting to this great music, to each other, and to our collective history.”

“When we first got together as the Last In Line line-up, our ambition at that time didn’t extend to writing and recording any new music, says Campbell, “but when we were offered the opportunity to do so by Frontiers, we decided to enter the studio to write this new album in the very same spirit as we did the Holy Diver album;  Back in 1982 Ronnie, Vinny, Jimmy and I went into Sound City studios to kick around ideas and riffs, and about six weeks later we started laying down the tracks for what was to become the Holy Diver album.”

CD TRACKLISTING

  1. DEVIL IN ME
  2. MARTYR
  3. STARMAKER
  4. BURN THIS HOUSE DOWN
  5. I AM REVOLUTION
  6. BLAME IT ON ME
  7. IN FLAMES (BONUS TRACK DELUXE EDITION)
  8. ALREADY DEAD
  9. CURSE THE DAY
  10. ORANGE GLOW
  11. HEAVY CROWN
  12. THE SICKNESS

 

DVD TRACKLISTING

  1. DEVIL IN ME (Videoclip)
  2. STARMAKER (Videoclip)
  3. Making of Heavy Crown

About David Farrell

General Manager and 'THE' competition guy at planetmosh.com. Manager of The Goddanm Electric www.thegde.co.uk, Tour manager for Serpentine, and ex-general Dogsbody at Hammerfest.co.uk. Media partner to numerous bands. Also takes photos, writes reviews and likes classic rock, with a touch of thrash to get the blood flowing.