HEAVY HISTORY

LED ZEPPELIN’s now defunct label, Swan Song Inc. – with a logo designed by Hipgnosis and illustrated by Joe Petagno – launched 52 years ago today (May 10th, 1974). Their first release? BAD COMPANY’S debut Bad Company on June 15th, 1974.

TALENT WE’VE LOST

R.I.P. SEX PISTOLS bassist Sid Vicious (real name Simon John Ritchie): May 10th, 1957 – February 2nd, 1979 (21)

R.I.P. David Wayne (METAL CHURCH, REVEREND, WAYNE) January 1st, 1958 – May 10th, 2005 (aged 47 years old; photo above courtesy of Mark Weissguy Weiss; visit TheDecadeThatRocked.com for more info!)

HEAVY BIRTHDAYS

Happy 65th
Daniel “Danny” Edwin Carey (TOOL) – May 10th, 1961 

HEAVY RELEASES

Happy 42nd
TWISTED SISTER’s Stay Hungry – May 10th, 1984

Happy 36th
STEELHEART’s Steelheart – May 10th, 1990

Happy 26th
KEEP OF KALESSIN’s Reptilian – May 10th, 2010

Happy 15th
ANVIL’s Juggernaut Of Justice – May 10th 2011

ENSLAVED’s The Sleeping Gods – May 10th, 2011
HATE ETERNAL’s Phoenix Amongst The Ashes – May 10th, 2011
NOVEMBERS DOOM’s Aphotic – May 10th, 2011
THE GATES OF SLUMBER’s The Wretch – May 10th, 2011

Happy 13th
IMMOLATION’s Kingdom Of Conspiracy – May 10th, 2013

ARCKANUM’s Fenris Kindir – May 10th, 2013
CHAOSTAR’s Anomima – May 10th, 2013

Happy 10th
FEMME FATALE’s One More for the Road – May 10th, 2016

Happy 9th
ALDIOUS’s Unlimited Diffusion – May 10th, 2017
HOLY BLOOD’s Glory To The Heroes – May 10th, 2017
MARK SLAUGHTER’s Halfway There – May 10th, 2017

Happy 8th
HARLEY FLANAGAN’s Hard-Core Dr. Know – May 10th, 2018

Happy 7th
ABNORMALITY’s Sociopathic Constructs – May 10th, 2019
APHYXION’s Void – May 10th, 2019
ARCH/MATHEOS’s Winter Ethereal – May 10th, 2019
DANNY WORSNOP’s Shades Of Blue – May 10th, 2019
EXTREMA’s Headbanging Forever – May 10th, 2019
HANDFUL OF HATE’s Adversus – May 10th, 2019
POSSESSED’s Revelations Of Oblivion – May 10th, 2019 (#4 for BravePicks 2019)

WHITESNAKE’s Flesh & Blood – May 10th, 2019 (#18 for BravePicks 2019)