HEAVY HISTORY
Happy MOTÖRHEAD day (May 8th).
TALENT WE LOST
R.I.P. ROBERT Leroy JOHNSON: May 8th, 1911 – August 16th, 1938 (aged 27)
HEAVY BIRTHDAYS
Happy 72nd
Alexander Arthur Alex Van Halen (VAN HALEN) – May 8th, 1953
Happy 65th
Eric Brittingham (CINDERELLA) – May 8th, 1960
Happy 64th
Jim Sheppard (NEVERMORE, SANCTUARY) – May 8th, 1961
Happy 58th
Pepper J. Keenan (CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, DOWN) – May 8th, 1967
Happy 54th
Candice Night (BLACKMORE’S NIGHT) – May 8th, 1971
ALBUM RELEASES
55th Birthday
THE BEATLES’ Let It Be – May 8th, 1970
45th Birthday
MOTÖRHEAD’s The Golden Years – May 8th, 1980
35th Birthday
BRUCE DICKINSON’s Tattooed Millionaire – May 8th, 1990
19th Birthday
BEYOND FEAR’s Beyond Fear – May 8th, 2006
18th Birthday
IMMOLATION’s Shadows In The Light – May 8th, 2007
BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE’s The Physics Of Fire – May 8th, 2007
LORD BELIAL’s Revelation: The 7th Seal – May 8th, 2007
NEUROSIS’ Given To The Rising – May 8th, 2007
WITH PASSION’s What We See When We Shut Our Eyes – May 8th, 2007
WOE OF TYRANTS’ Behold The Lion – May 8th, 2007
16th Birthday
EPICA’s The Classical Conspiracy (live album) – May 8th, 2009
LACRIMOSA’s Sehnsucht – May 8th, 2009
THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG – Ape Uprising! – May 8th, 2009
15th Birthday
VIOLATOR’ Annihilation Process – May 8th, 2010
13th Birthday
JOHN 5’s God Told Me To – May 8th, 2012
SARATOGA’s Nemesis – May 8th, 2012
10th Birthday
KAMELOT’s Haven – May 8th, 2015
SIRENIA’s The Seventh Life Path – May 8th, 2015
ARCTURUS’ Arcturian – May 8th, 2015
5th Birthday
…AND OCEANS’ Cosmic World Mother – May 8th, 2020
BRANT BJORK’s Brant Bjork – May 8th, 2020
DESTRUCTION’s Born to Thrash – Live in Germany (live album) – May 8th, 2020
FORGOTTEN TOMB’s Nihilistic Estrangement – May 8th, 2020
GREEN CARNATION’s Leaves of Yesteryear – May 8th, 2020
MEKONG DELTA’s Tales of a Future Past – May 8th, 2020
NAGLFAR’s Cerecloth – May 8th, 2020
OATHBREAKER’s Ease Me & 4 Interpretations (EP) – May 8th, 2020
SECRETS OF THE MOON’s Black House – May 8th, 2020
WINTERFYLLETH’s The Reckoning Dawn – May 8th, 2020
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