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Although his trademark tales of “dungeons and dragons” may have single-handedly inspired Spinal Tap (even more specifically, Tap’s overblown epic “Stonehenge”), Ronnie James Dio was unquestionably among heavy metal’s most talented and instantly identifiable vocalists. Given birth to Ronald Wayne Padavona in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on July 10, 1942, the …

The roots of Houston, Texas’ atmospheric pop project Drowner began in 2008, when multi-instrumentalist Darren Emanuel began tinkering with guitar effects and textures that went beyond the music he was producing along with his band at that time, Swimming In. Although some of the shoegaze-inspired approach managed to get into …