{"id":11463,"date":"2017-07-26T20:45:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T03:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/?p=11463"},"modified":"2017-07-26T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T03:45:36","slug":"dio-hologram-world-tour-is-actually-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2017\/07\/26\/dio-hologram-world-tour-is-actually-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Dio Hologram World Tour is Actually Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inevitable is upon us. The <strong>Ronnie James Dio hologram<\/strong> which made its debut at the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany in 2016, and its US debut earlier this year, will embark on the &#8220;Dio Returns&#8221; world tour in late 2017, backed by the live band formerly known as Dio Disciples (guitarist Craig Goldy, drummer Simon Wright, keyboardist Scott Warren and bassist Bjorn Englen). The tour will start in Europe and will hit South America, Australia and Asia, and will arrive in the U.S. in the Spring of 2018. Confirmed dates are posted below, and more will be announced in due course. Prepare to send your hologram to a show near you!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dioreturns.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11463]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11464\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dioreturns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dioreturns.jpg 665w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dioreturns-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>11\/30\/2017 &#8211; Helsinki, Finland @ The Circus<br \/>\n12\/03\/2017 &#8211; Stockholm, Sweden @ Fryshuset<br \/>\n12\/04\/2017 &#8211; Oslo, Norway @ Rockefeller Music Hall<br \/>\n12\/06\/2017 &#8211; Warsaw, Poland @ Progresja<br \/>\n12\/13\/2017 &#8211; Barcelona, Spain @ Bikini<br \/>\n12\/15\/2017 &#8211; Santander, Spain @ Escenario Santander<br \/>\n12\/17\/2017 &#8211; Bucharest, Romania @ Arelene Romane<br \/>\n12\/20\/2017 &#8211; Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix<br \/>\n12\/21\/2017 &#8211; Tilburg, Netherlands @ 013<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If you like what you\u2019ve read\/seen, <a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/shop\">buy a shirt<\/a> and help keep Metal Assault running full time!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Come to one of our <a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/events\">events<\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inevitable is upon us. The Ronnie James Dio hologram which made its debut at the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany in 2016, and its US debut earlier this year, will embark on the &#8220;Dio Returns&#8221; world tour in late 2017, backed by the live band formerly known as Dio Disciples (guitarist Craig Goldy, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2017\/07\/26\/dio-hologram-world-tour-is-actually-happening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dio Hologram World Tour is Actually Happening&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11466,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions\/11466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}