Metallica couldn’t pick just one Ronnie James Dio song to record for the tribute compilation This Is Your Life, so they picked four. Rolling Stone is premiering the thrash metal group’s contribution today: a nine-minute mélange of four riffy, fantastical tracks, titled “Ronnie Rising Medley,” that the group culled from the iconic metal singer’s mid-Seventies band Rainbow. The comp is an effort not only to pay tribute to the singer, who died of stomach cancer in 2010, but also to raise money for cancer research; proceeds from the record benefit the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout cancer fund.
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