{"id":10731,"date":"2020-10-30T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T16:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/?p=10731"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:50:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:50:49","slug":"buttkickin-halloween-songs-shame-on-the-night-dio-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2020\/10\/30\/buttkickin-halloween-songs-shame-on-the-night-dio-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Shame On The Night” — Dio (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Shame on the night
\nFor places I’ve been
\nAnd what I’ve seen
\nFor giving me the strangest dreams
\nBut you never really know just what they mean
\nOh so shame on the night…<\/em><\/p>\n

Quite frankly, if I ever do an annual Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs<\/a> without the involvement of any Ronnie James Dio<\/a> tunes, then I have unequivocally failed in my duties.<\/p>\n

Ronnie’s been gone for 10 years now, and I’m still feeling the sting on that one. The man was and is Rock & Metal Legend. From Elf to Black Sabbath to Heaven & Hell to his eponymous band Dio, our pal RJD helped forge metal in its nascency. And with it he brought a sense of fantasy, mythology, angels, demons, wizards, castles, and monsters, all of it over the top and fantastical and it freakin’ ROCKED.<\/p>\n

Plus it was all perfect for Halloween. Hence we included all of the following Ronnie James Dio songs in our playlist thus far:<\/p>\n