QUIET RIOT's landmark third album, Metal Health, was released 38 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 74th Birthday Mark Stein (VANILLA FUDGE) - March 11th, 1947

Happy 59th Birthday Lenny Wolf (KINGDOM COME, STONE FURY) - March 11th, 1962

Happy 54th Birthday Uli Kusch (HELLOWEEN, GAMMA RAY, MASTERPLAN, HOLY MOSES) - March 11th, 1967

Happy 51st Birthday Thomas "Tomen" Stauch (BLIND GUARDIAN, SAVAGE CIRCUS) - March 11th, 1970

Happy 47th Birthday Adam Wakeman (BLACK SABBATH, OZZY OSBOURNE) - March 11th, 1974 

Happy 46th Birthday ALICE COOPER’s Welcome To My Nightmare – March 11^th, 1975

Happy 38th Birthday HELIX' No Rest For The Wicked – March 11th, 1983

Happy 30th Birthday HELLOWEEN’s Pink Bubbles…Go Ape! – March 11th, 1991

Happy 25th Birthday ANNIHILATOR’s Refresh The Demon - March 11th, 1996

Happy 13th Birthday ZIMMER'S HOLE’s When You Were Shouting At The Devil... - March 11th, 2008

Happy 8th Birthday ORANGE GOBLIN’s A Eulogy For The Fans (DVD) – March 11th, 2013

More releases on this day:

Happy 12th Birthday DARK THE SUNS’ All Ends In Silence – March 11th, 2009

Happy 10th Birthday (March 11th, 2011)
NEGURA BUNGET’s Focul Viu (DVD) 
SYLOSIS’ Edge Of The Earth 

Happy 8th Birthday BLOOD TSUNAMI’s For Faen – March 11th, 2013

Happy 7th Birthday (March 11th, 2014)
ARCHITECTS’ Lost Forever // Lost Together
NOCTURNAL BREED’s Napalm Nights

Happy 5th Birthday 
CRIMINAL’s Fear Itself – March 11th, 2016
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE’s Incarnate – March 11th, 2016
VAN CANTO’s Voices Of Fire – March 11th, 2016