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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 metal history. From August 14th to 20th, the following albums/releases celebrated an anniversary. Click the gallery above to view photos. 

Happy 53rd 
HAWKWIND's Hawkwind - August 14th, 1970

Happy 52nd 
THE WHO's Who's Next - August 14th, 1971

Happy 31st 
MOTÖRHEAD's March Ör Die - August 14th, 1992

Happy 28th 
KRISIUN's Black Force Domain - August 14th, 1995

Happy 45th
SCORPIONS’ Tokyo Tapes - August 15th, 1978

Happy 44th 
LED ZEPPELIN's In Through The Out Door - August 15th, 1979

Happy 40th 
AC/DC's Flick Of The Switch – August 15th, 1983

Happy 9th 
ACCEPT’s Blind Rage – August 15th, 2014

Happy 38th 
PANTERA’s I Am The Night - August 16th, 1985 

Happy 36th
MAYHEM’s Deathcrush - August 16th, 1987 

Happy 29th 
SAVATAGE’s Handful Of Rain - August 16th, 1994

Happy 39th 
W.A.S.P.'s W.A.S.P. - August 17th, 1984

Happy 33rd 
CANNIBAL CORPSE’s Eaten Back To Life – August 17th, 1990 

Happy 30th 
TYPE O NEGATIVE's Bloody Kisses - August 17th, 1993

Happy 37th 
BON JOVI's Slippery When Wet - August 18th, 1986
BON JOVI's massive third album Slippery When Wet was released 37 years ago today (August 18th, 1986).

Famed photographer Mark “Weissguy” Weiss from The Decade That Rocked explains the controversy around his photo shoot.  

"The guys came home after finishing the album, the album title was changed to Slippery When Wet inspired by the #5. A strip club in Vancouver near where they were recording. The idea was to do a photo by the beach and get some girls posing with cut out shirts with the new title of the album on it. Jon lived right across the street from the beach in Bradley Beach, New Jersey, where we did the shoot. All the guys came with their cars, motorcycles and girls. We needed a few more girls so I walked across the street and pulled a few more. My assistant Danny took a walk with Tico across the street and came back with just what the Dr. ordered. An Italian hot girl named Angela. We found her – this was going to be the girl on the cover. Then I got some soap and water and started having a car wash party. The photo ended up in the sleeve of the album."

"The album was done. The label had 200,000 copies printed up in her cut up Slippery When Wet custom t-shirt. Everything was ready to go. But this was 1986, and the PMRC was in full swing. Record stores were threatening the labels to ease up on the explicit content and imagery or they wouldn’t sell the records. Polygram Records knew they had a smash album on their hands, and they didn’t want to jeopardize that success. So we went back to the drawing board to come up with another cover."

"Jon came to my studio in New York shortly after the news that we had to come up with a new cover. He just said to me, “Garbage bag. Spray bottle.” I propped up the bag and sprayed it, then Jon wrote the words Slippery When Wet. “That’s it, there’s the cover.” He didn’t even wait to see the Polaroid. The next day I delivered the photo, and the rest is history."

Happy 25th 
OPETH's My Arms, Your Hearse - August 18th, 1998

Happy 9th 
ACE FREHLEY’s Space Invader – August 18th, 2014
The only time a solo album from a KISS member hit the US top 10 on Billboard (#9). 

Happy 27th
SAMAEL’s Passage - August 19th, 1996

Happy 33rd
QUEENSRŸCHE's Empire - August 20th, 1990
BLACK SABBATH's TYR - August 20th, 1990

Happy 27th 
TYPE O NEGATIVE's October Rust - August 20th, 1996

Happy 21st 
BLACK SABBATH’s Past Lives – August, 20th, 2002

Happy 13th 
ACCEPT’s Blood Of The Nations - August 20th, 2010 
The first with T.T. QUICK singer Mark Tornillo.