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Swedish Heavy Metal Musicians Pay Tribute To DIO On SWEDEN ROCK CRUISE (Video)

October 9, 2010

Some of Sweden's finest heavy metal musicians gathered to pay tribute to Ronnie James Dio during this fall's edition of the Sweden Rock Cruise, which sailed on October 7, 2010 from Stockholm, Sweden for Åbo, Finland and returned the following day. There was a long tribute concert with a number of guest musicians performing classic songs from Dio's career with a main band consisting of members of LION'S SHARE.

The following artists were scheduled to perform with LION'S SHARE at the event:

* Björn Gelotte and Peter Iwers (IN FLAMES)
* Joacim Cans (HAMMERFALL)
* Ian Haugland (EUROPE)
* Mikael Åkerfeldt (OPETH)
* Jens Johansson (STRATOVARIUS, ex-DIO)
* Messiah Marcolin (ex-CANDLEMASS)
* Johan Edlund (TIAMAT)
* Joakim Berg and Magnus "Adde" Andreasson (HARDCORE SUPERSTAR)
* Johan Hegg (AMON AMARTH)
* Mike Wead (BIBLEBLACK, KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE)

Also scheduled to appear were:

* TIAMAT
* NIFELHEIM
* ALIEN (original lineup)

The show ended with all artists performing HEAR 'N AID's "Stars" (Dio was behind the HEAR N' AID project, a collection of metal artists who recorded the track "Stars" in 1985 to raise funds for African famine relief.)

Fan-filmed video footage of the event can be viewed below.

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