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BraveWords has one of the biggest music collections on the planet, with thousands of items signed. Each week we will showcase the last seven days of birthdays featuring some of the greatest releases in hard rock and heavy metal history. From November 6th - 12th, the following albums/releases celebrated an anniversary. Click the gallery above to view all the photos from the past week. 

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Happy 36th
Less Than Zero Soundtrack - November 6th, 1987

Happy 33rd
KREATOR’s Coma Of Souls – November 6th, 1990
SCORPIONS' Crazy World - November 6th, 1990

Happy 28th
QUEEN’s Made In Heaven – November 6th, 1995
Four years after his death in 1991, QUEEN released Freddie Mercury’s final recordings. 
Wikipedia: “The CD cover photo was shot at dusk, depicting Irena Sedlecká's Mercury sculpture located at Lake Geneva in Montreux, Switzerland, on the front, with May, Taylor and Deacon gazing at the Alps on the rear cover”

Happy 11th
AEROSMITH’s Music From Another Dimension! - November 6th, 2012
AEROSMITH released their last studio album, Music From Another Dimension!, 11 years ago today (November 6th, 2012). 

Happy 54th
PINK FLOYD’s Ummagumma - November 7th, 1969 

Happy 42nd 
OZZY OSBOURNE's Diary Of A Madman - November 7th, 1981

Happy 40th
YES’ 90125 - November 7th, 1983

Happy 33rd
WHITESNAKE’s Slip Of The Tongue - November 18th, 1989

Happy 28th
ALICE IN CHAINS' Alice in Chains - November 7th, 1995

Happy 52nd
LED ZEPPELIN's IV - November 8th, 1971
37 million copies sold and counting. The album cover is an oil painting Robert Plant bought from an antique shop in Reading, Berkshire, UK. 

Happy 49th
THIN LIZZY's Nightlife - November 8th, 1974 
QUEEN's Sheer Heart Attack - November 8th, 1974

Happy 43rd
MOTÖRHEAD's Ace Of Spades - November 8th, 1980

Happy 30th
IRON MAIDEN's Live At Donington - November 8th, 1993
30 years ago today (November 8th, 1993) we heard IRON MAIDEN perform in front of 80,000 in the UK.

Happy 24th 
MY DYING BRIDE’s The Light At The End Of The World - November 8th, 1999

Happy 53rd
When ERIC CLAPTON united with an ALLMAN BROTHER (Duane). DEREK AND THE DOMINOS’s only album, Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs turns 53 today (November 9th, 1970). 🎂 

Happy 44th
IRON MAIDEN's The Soundhouse Tapes - November 9th, 1979
44 years ago today (November 9th, 1979) we first heard this new UK band called IRON MAIDEN.

Happy 38th
W.A.S.P.'s The Last Command - November 9th, 1985

Happy 38th
HELIX' Long Way To Heaven - November 9th, 1985

Happy 38th
TWISTED SISTER's Come Out And Play - November 9th, 1985
TWISTED SISTER's fourth album, Come Out And Play, was released 38 years ago today (November 9th, 1985).  

Last year Dee Snider spoke to me about the album: “‘Leader Of The Pack’, that was a misstep, but more because it was the wrong time. That song we used to play in the bars, and the fans would love it. It was on our first EP, with ‘Under The Blade’, ‘What You Don’t Know’, ‘Shoot ‘Em Down’, and ‘Leader Of The Pack’, for Secret Records before Under The Blade. So we would play it on tour for Under The Blade and the crowd would love it. So I thought it was a natural thing to bring back and redo, and we thought it was a big hit, but it was too slick, too produced, the video was too cartoonish, It had lost the snottiness of these five guys in drag doing it in a biker bar, which is originally where the inspiration came from, you know, ‘Fuck you, leader of the pack!’. Timing is everything. There have been some missteps and unfortunately this seems to be one of them. Talk about leaving a scar (referencing his 2021 solo album Leave A Scar).”

Happy 38th
Y&T's Down For The Count - November 9th, 1985
The last album with the original line-up of Dave Meniketti, Joey Alves, Phil Kennemore and Leonard Haze containing their biggest hit, "Summertime Girls”. 

Happy 38th
AEROSMITH's Done With Mirrors - November 9th, 1985 
AEROSMITH reunite with Joe Perry and Brad Whitford and lead off with a cover of a JOE PERRY PROJECT tune from five years prior. 

Happy 37th
THE KILLER DWARFS’ Stand Tall - November 9th, 1986

Happy 36th
CANDLEMASS’ Nightfall - November 9th, 1987
36 years ago today (November 9th, 1987), we were introduced to the glorious pipes of singer Messiah Marcolin. 

Happy 24th
SAXON’s Metalhead - November 9th, 1999

Happy 45th
QUEEN's Jazz - November 10th, 1978
45 years ago today (November 10th, 1978), QUEEN followed up their massive News Of The World album with Jazz. 🎂

Happy 42nd
KISS' Music From The Elder - November 10th, 1981
MÖTLEY CRÜE's Too Fast For Love - November 10th, 1981 

Happy 39th
TRIUMPH's Thunder Seven - November 10th, 1984

Happy 37th
FATES WARNING’s Awaken The Guardian - November 10th, 1986
37 years ago today (November 10th, 1986), FATES WARNING released their final album with original singer John Arch. 

Happy 25th
RUSH’s Different Stages – November 10th, 1998
Their 22nd consecutive gold album! Discs 1 + 2 were recorded live at various venues during the 1994 Counterparts Tour and during the 1997 Test For Echo Tour. Disc 3 was recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon, February 20, 1978.

Happy 17th 
SOLITUDE AETURNUS’ Alone - November 10th, 2006

Happy 47th
KISS' Rock And Roll Over - November 11th, 1976

Happy 43rd
AEROSMITH’s Greatest Hits - November 11th, 1980

Happy 38th
PETE TOWNSHEND’s White City: A Novel - November 11th, 1985 

Happy 32nd
ICED EARTH’s Night Of The Stormrider - November 11th, 1991
ICED EARTH’s second studio album, Night Of The Stormrider, turns 32 today (November 11th, 1991). Ever crank these early albums? 🎂

Happy 27th
SENTENCED’s Down – November 11th, 1996
Down, SENTENCED’s fourth and first album with vocalist Ville Laihiala, turns 27 today (November 11th, 1996). 

Happy 26th
VENOM's Cast In Stone - November 11th, 1997
The original VENOM line-up reunited for the first time. 

Happy 18th
DIMMU BORGIR’s Stormblåst MMV – November 7th, 2005

Happy 52nd
GENESIS’ Nursery Cryme - November 12th, 1971
The first to feature drummer/vocalist Phil Collins and guitarist Steve Hackett. 

Happy 32nd
ENTOMBED’s Clandestine – November 12th, 1991

Happy 21st
BLOODBATH’s Resurrection Through Carnage – November 12th, 2002
OPETH’s Deliverance – November 12th, 2002

Happy 16th
LED ZEPPELIN’s Mothership - November 12th, 2007