TALENT WE LOST / BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
R.I.P. Per Yngve Ohlin, aka Dead (MAYHEM) – January 16th, 1969 – April 8th, 1991 (aged 22)
R.I.P. Alexi Laiho (CHILDREN OF BODOM) – April 8th, 1979 – December 29th, 2020 (aged 41)
R.I.P. Paul Dedrick Gray (SLIPKNOT): April 8th, 1972 – May 24th, 2010 (aged 38)
HEAVY BIRTHDAYS
Happy 78th
Steve Howe (YES, ASIA) – April 8th, 1947 (Photo Credit Gottlieb Bros)
Happy 63rd
Jeffrey Dean Isbell (aka IZZY STRADLIN; GUNS N’ ROSES) – April 8th, 1962
HEAVY RELEASES
Happy 50th
AEROSMITH’s Toys In The Attic – April 8th, 1975
Happy 48th
JUDAS PRIEST’s Sin After Sin – April 8th, 1977
Happy 48th
SUPERTRAMP’s Even In The Quietest Moments… – April 8th, 1977
Happy 47th
SAGA’s Saga (April 8th, 1978)
Happy 43rd
TOTO’s Toto IV – April 8th, 1982
Happy 40th
SLAYER’s Hell Awaits – April 8th, 1985
Happy 37th
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN’s Odyssey – April 8th, 1988
Happy 28th
KISS’ Greatest Kiss – April 8th, 1997
Happy 22nd
JUDAS PRIEST’s Live In London – April 8th, 2003
Happy 12th
DEVICE’s Device – April 8th, 2013
THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL’s Sonderkommando – April 8th, 2013
SHINING’s One One One – April 8th, 2013
Happy 9th
DEFTONES’ Gore – April 8th, 2016
IHSAHN’s Arktis – April 8th, 2016
ZAKK WYLDE’s Book of Shadows II – April 8th, 2016
Happy 3rd
DESTRUCTION’s Diabolical – April 8th, 2022
HÄLLAS’s Isle of Wisdom – April 8th, 2022
INCITE’s Wake Up Dead – April 8th, 2022
INGLORIOUS’ MMXXI Live at the Phoenix – April 8th, 2022
MORS PRINCIPIUM EST’s – Liberate the Unborn Inhumanity – April 8th, 2022
PAPA ROACH’s Ego Trip – April 8th, 2022
TERZIJ DE HORDE’s In One of These, I Am Your Enemy – April 8th, 2022
TREAT’s The Endgame – April 8th, 2022
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