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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 September 4th - 10th, the following albums/releases celebrated an anniversary. Click the gallery above to view all the photos from the past week. 

Happy 33rd
RUSH’s second official compilation, Chronicles, was released 33 years ago today (September 4, 1990). 

Happy 16th 
Recorded in Buenos Aires on October 9, 2005 at the Obras Sanitarias Stadium, MEGADETH released That One Night: Live In Buenos Aires, 16 years ago today (September 4th, 2007). 

Happy 8th 
Album #16. IRON MAIDEN released The Book Of Souls, eight years ago today (September 4th, 2015). 

Happy 36th
ARMORED SAINT’s third album, Raising Fear, turns 36 today (September 5th, 1987). 
GRIM REAPER's third studio album, Rock You To Hell, was released 36 years ago today (September 5th, 1987). 
MOTÖRHEAD's eighth album, Rock 'N' Roll, rocked us 36 years ago today (September 5th, 1987). 
ALICE COOPER's mean tenth album, Raise Your Fist And Yell, celebrates 36 years today (September 5th, 1987). 
Y&T's awesome Contagious turns 36 today (September 5th, 1987). 

Happy 34th 
SOUNDGARDEN released their second album, Louder Than Love, 34 years ago today (September 5th, 1989). 

Happy 23rd 
NILE’s sophomore effort, Black Seeds Of Vengeance, was released 23 years ago today (September 5th, 2000). 

Happy 18th 
STRATOVARIUS' tenth album, Stratovarius, was released 18 years ago today in Europe (September 5th, 2005). 

Happy 49th 
JUDAS PRIEST's debut Rocka Rolla is 49 today (September 6th, 1974). 

Happy 29th 
OBITUARY’s World Demise was released 29 years ago today (September 6th, 1994).  

Happy 24th 
SATYRICON’s brutally excellent fourth studio album, Rebel Extravaganza, turns 24 today (September 6, 1999). 

Happy 19th 
AMON AMARTH’s fifth album, Fate Of Norns, was released 19 years ago today (September 6th, 2004). 🎂🤘

Happy 10th 
KILLER DWARFS sixth studio album, Start @ One, turns ten today (September 6th, 2013). 🎂🤘

Happy 39th 
MERCYFUL FATE’s Don't Break The Oath was released 39 years ago today (September 7th, 1984). 🎂

Happy 35th 
METALLICA’s …And Justice For All, was released 35 years ago today (September 7th, 1988). 🎂🤘

Happy 39th 
QUEENSRŸCHE’s first studio album, The Warning, turns 39 today (September 7th, 1984). 🎂🤘
 
Happy 36th 
Happy 36th 🎂 PINK FLOYD's A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (September 7th, 1987). Top ten album in 11 countries. Carmine Appice was asked to play on “The Dogs Of War”. He told me about it on Streaming For Vengeance:

Appice: ”It was just a session that Bob Ezrin called me and said, 'there's a band screaming for Carmine drum fills' and I called him back and asked, 'Who's the band?' And he said, 'Pink Floyd', and I said, 'Whoa! Where's Nick (Mason)?' We used to tour with them in the old days of Vanilla Fudge in the ’60's. He said, 'Nick's driving his Ferraris, and his callouses are soft, and he wants some new blood. I see your drum fills all over this track.' So I said, 'Ok', and I went down to the studio, and I knew all those guys and spent the whole day with them. I loved doing that. I filled up maybe 24 tracks, and Bob just edited all the drum parts together. I never heard the finished product until it came out. I kept asking, 'What's it sound like?', and he kept saying, 'Fantastic! Call me next week.' I was doing a movie called Black Roses, it was a heavy metal horror movie, like one of those B movies, and I was in Canada, in Hamilton. Underneath the streets they have the malls, underground malls because it's so friggin cold up there. So it was summertime, September kind of thing, and I heard on the radio in Canada that A Momentary Lapse Of Reason just came out. In stores now. So, I immediately went down from the hotel into the mall and looked for a record store and I bought a cassette. The first thing I did, I went to that track and listened to that song, ‘The Dogs Of War’, on my Sony Walkman, and I was blown away by the fact that number one, I was on a Pink Floyd record. Even though we started out with them, they got so big. But I was on that record and I was on that record sounding like me, and kicking ass.” 

Happy 33rd
Four CDs, six LPs or four cassettes: LED ZEPPELIN’s Led Zeppelin Boxed Set, was released 33 years ago today (September 7th, 1990). 

Happy 24th 
STEVE VAI’s The Ultra Zone was released 24 years ago today (September 7th, 1999). 🎂🎸 Anybody strumming to this?

Happy 35th 
RUSH's Hold Your Fire turns 35 today (September 8th, 1987). Even saw a rare guest appearance with TIL TUESDAY’S Aimee Mann on “Time Stand Still”. 

Happy 41st 
RUSH's Signals was released 41 years ago today (September 9th, 1982). 

Happy 37th
FATES WARNING released their debut, Night On Brocken, 39 years ago today (September 9th 1984). 

Happy 18th 
The year Don Airey replaced Jon Lord on keyboards. DEEP PURPLE’s 17th studio album, Bananas, turns 20 today (September 9th, 2003). 

Happy 20th
DIMMU BORGIR’s Death Cult Armageddon turns 20 today (September 9th, 2003). 

Happy 10th 
SATYRICON’s Satyricon is ten today (September 9th, 2013). 

Happy 1st
Winner of Best Rock Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. OZZY OSBOURNE’s 13th and latest studio album, Patient Number 9, was released a year ago today (September 9th, 2022). 

Happy 48th 
KISS’ first live album, Alive!, was released 48 years ago today (September 10th, 1975).

Happy 27th 
RUSH released their 16th album, Test For Echo, 27 years ago today (September 10th, 1996).