HEAVY HISTORY / BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
Nine years ago today. On April 16th, 2016, AC/DC announced that GUNS N’ ROSES singer Axl Rose would replace Brian Johnson.
TALENT WE LOST
R.I.P. Lee Kerslake (OZZY OSBOURNE, URIAH HEEP): April 16th, 1947 – September 19th, 2020 (aged 73; photo credit: Richard Galbraith)
HEAVY BIRTHDAYS
Happy 67th
Mark Zonder (FATES WARNING, WARLORD, DRAMATICA) – April 16th, 1958
Happy 51st
Ted Lundstrom (AMON AMARTH) – April 16th, 1974
HEAVY RELEASES
Happy 61st
THE ROLLING STONES’ The Rolling Stones – April 16th, 1964
Happy 41st
VENOM’s At War With Satan – April 16th, 1984
SAXON’s Crusader – April 16th, 1984
Happy 37th
SCORPIONS’ Savage Amusement – April 16th, 1988
Happy 35th
BATHORY’s Hammerheart – April 16th, 1990
Happy 36th
TEMPLE OF THE DOG’s Temple Of The Dog – April 16, 1991
Happy 18th
ANNIHILATOR’s Metal – April 16th, 2007
MAYHEM’s Ordo Ad Chao – April 16th, 2007
PAIN’s Psalms Of Extinction – April 16th, 2007
SHINING’s Halmstad – April 16th, 2007
W.A.S.P.’s Dominator – April 16th, 2007
Happy 16th
EMPEROR’s Live Inferno – April 16th, 2009
Happy 13th
GORY BLISTER’s Earth-Sick – April 16th, 2012
ANATHEMA’s Weather Systems – April 16th, 2012
Happy 12th
SKID ROW’s United World Rebellion: Chapter One – April 16th, 2013
JEFF LOOMIS’ Requiem For The Living – April 16th, 2013
Happy 4th
AUGUST BURNS RED’s Guardians Sessions (EP) – April 16, 2021
CANNIBAL CORPSE’s Violence Unimagined – April 16, 2021
ESCAPE THE FATE’s Chemical Warfare – April 16, 2021
LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT’s Liquid Tension Experiment 3 – April 16, 2021
LIV KRISTINE’s Have Courage Dear Heart (EP) – April 16, 2021
MARTY FRIEDMAN’s Tokyo Jukebox 3 – April 16, 2021
WEDNESDAY 13’s Necrophase: Antidote (EP) – April 16, 2021
WHILE SHE SLEEPS’s Sleeps Society – April 16, 2021
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