A sad time for metal fans...

So in the last six months we've lost James 'The Rev' Sullivan of Avenged Sevenfold, Pete Steele of Type O Negative and Ronnie James Dio. And this week Slipknot bassist Paul Gray died.

I won't go on about what a huge Slipknot fan I used to be (and how I truly believe their first two albums are among the great artworks of our time), because I already blogged about it, back here. Seeing them live remains one of the defining moments of my youth. It went something like this...