QUIET RIOT's landmark third album, Metal Health, was released 36 years ago today (March 11th, 1983). Led by the SLADE cover of "Cum On Feel The Noize", the album is notable for being the very first heavy metal album to reach the #1 spot on the Billboard 200, knocking THE POLICE's Synchronicity out of #1 in the US. Metal Health sits at six-times platinum in the US (six million copies) and three-times platinum (300,000 copies) in Canada.

R.I.P. Vinnie “Paul”Abbott (HELLYEAH, PANTERA) - March 11th, 1964 - June 22nd, 2018

Happy 72nd Birthday Mark Stein (VANILLA FUDGE) - March 11th, 1947

Happy 57th Birthday Lenny Wolf (KINGDOM COME, STONE FURY) - March 11th, 1962

Happy 52nd Birthday Uli Kusch (MASTERPLAN, HELLOWEEN) - March 11th, 1967

Happy 49th Birthday Thomas "Tomen" Stauch (BLIND GUARDIAN, SAVAGE CIRCUS) - March 11th, 1970

Happy 45th Birthday Adam Wakeman (BLACK SABBATH, OZZY OSBOURNE) - March 11th, 1974 

Happy 44th Birthday ALICE COOPER’s Welcome To My Nightmare – March 11^th, 1975

Happy 36th Birthday HELIX' No Rest For The Wicked – March 11th, 1983

Happy 28th Birthday HELLOWEEN’s Pink Bubbles…Go Ape! – March 11th, 1991

Happy 23rd Birthday ANNIHILATOR’s Refresh The Demon - March 11th, 1996

Happy 11th Birthday ZIMMER'S HOLE’s When You Were Shouting At The Devil... - March 11th, 2008

Happy 6th Birthday ORANGE GOBLIN’s A Eulogy For The Fans (DVD) – March 11th, 2013

More releases on this day:

Happy 10th Birthday DARK THE SUNS’ All Ends In Silence – March 11th, 2009

Happy 8th Birthday 
NEGURA BUNGET’s Focul Viu (DVD) – March 11th, 2011
SYLOSIS’ Edge Of The Earth – March 11th, 2011

Happy 6th Birthday BLOOD TSUNAMI’s For Faen – March 11th, 2013

Happy 5th Birthday
ARCHITECTS’ Lost Forever // Lost Together – March 11th, 2014
NOCTURNAL BREED’s Napalm Nights – March 11th, 2014

Happy 3rd Birthday 
CRIMINAL’s Fear Itself – March 11th, 2016
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE’s Incarnate – March 11th, 2016
VAN CANTO’s Voices Of Fire – March 11th, 2016